Yes, absolutely. All live events will be taped, so as a member you can access anything you missed, including events that happened before you signed up.

In our interactive events, we’ll pause the recording when anyone in the group is sharing questions or writing, for confidentiality.

Okay, this is fun. There were two strong requests in our survey about this, so we combined them in this program.

First of all, we’ll all settle in, and use the chat to name and celebrate any writing wins that month. Then writers can choose – if you’re blocked and need inspiration, you can spend an hour with a Firefly coach offering guided writing prompts and fun, short writes. If you have a project and just need to sink in and write it, you can spend an hour with a different coach in another Zoom room dedicated to quiet co-writing time. 

At the end, we’ll come back together to set some goals or intentions for the writing month ahead, and then sign off.

Do you have an afternoon? Can I tell you everything? We have so many ideas. We’ll be rolling out lots of new stuff in the first year, while getting feedback all the way, so that we hone in on the things that are most popular and useful.

Here’s some of what we want to try:

• Author evenings – we’ll invite authors to come talk about their work and their process, with Q&A, readings, and maybe some writing time too.

• Nuts-and-bolts sessions with us on writing skills and questions like – how do I organize a big project? How do I make sense of plot? How do I start my memoir?

• Community mixers – guided dialogue and small group work to connect to other people in the community and explore some of your writing questions. (We think of this as a very wholesome and platonic speed dating, for writing friends.)

• Guided meditations that lead into extended, quiet writing time.

• Lab times – want to see where our creativity is taking us? In these sessions, we’ll try out new experimental writing workshop ideas, and you’ll tell us what works and what doesn’t.

• Question nights – like “Ask Me Anything" but we’ll also invite your answers to make it into more of a community conversation than an expert evening. We’ll all experts. Let’s ask and answer questions together.

• Writerly PJ parties – late night sessions for night owls who want to burn the midnight oil together.

Absolutely. Even though we’ve spent over a year thinking and talking about this, we still can’t entirely know what it wants to be.

Maybe one element will turn out to be wildly popular, and we’ll repeat it regularly. Maybe a new idea will emerge from the community and feel just right. Things will fall away as new ones emerge.

We will welcome your feedback at every stage. At the end of each 4-month period, we’ll do a formal survey to get your opinions, but you can drop us a line anytime to tell us what’s working and what’s not.

As the poet Antonio Machado wrote — we make the road by walking.

Yes, so long as their agenda links up with yours, you’ll have your choice of coach. We may remove this in the future if it’s becoming too difficult to schedule, but founding members will always have their choice.

All the Firefly coaches will take part in these, in a rotating schedule according to our availability. Each session will have two coaches.

No. We open registration three times a year and we welcome our new cohort with a special evening to get them all set up (and to do some writing of course). That said, if you are a previous member who has taken a break and knows your way around, we’ll likely make an exception. Drop us a line.

No. For the first year we’re going to change the time after each recruitment period (every four months), to see what works best for our community. It will always be on a weekday evening or weekend daytime. We’ll give lots of notice for timing changes, and we’ll be inviting your feedback throughout.

These will be scattered through the month, mostly on weekday evenings and weekends.

Once you sign up, your price will stay the same for as long as you’re enrolled. We’ll likely raise the price for new members after 6–12 months, but so long as your enrollment is consistent, you’ll keep your initial price.

Yes. We aren’t immune! If you’re here in Canada, you’ll pay your provincial sales tax rate.

Absolutely. If you’re not feeling the buzz, cancel anytime. 

No. You can cancel anytime, but all payments are final.

Details are coming soon.

Our bursary program opens four times a year, and you are welcome to apply for membership funding.