Is 2025 your year to write?

Doors for Sustenance open on January 9th!

Hi friends! Doors for my writing community, Sustenance, open next month on January 9, 2025! We have only 35 spots open to our nearly 700 waitlist subscribers.

Grab your spot now and act fast when you receive the link on January 9th. Spots filled within 90 minutes last quarter. This is the last chance to join at the current rate. Tuition increases next quarter when we open again in April.

Make 2025 that year to finally pursue your writing. We’d love to have you.

We’re a vibrant community of over 200 poets and lyrical essayists who care deeply about craft and each other. Through a robust curriculum, weekly core groups, guest speakers, generative sessions, critique circles, and irl meetups, Sustenance transforms the way you write.

Sustenance writers go on to do and write remarkable things. Our writers consistently get accepted into MFA programs, place work in literary magazines, are featured readers at events, and publish both full-length manuscripts and chapbooks.

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LA members of Sustenance meeting up at Skylight Books.

⭐️ Monthly Visiting Authors

Every month, Sustenance hosts an acclaimed author to give a live masterclass in our community.

Here’s a sneak peek of who is visiting us next quarter (more guests to be added soon):

⭐️ Robust Video Library

When you join, you also get immediate access to our extensive library, which includes every workshop I’ve ever taught as well as the replay of all guest speaker visits.

Over 30 craft workshop replays including: Kate Baer, Ellen Bass, Brendan Constantine, Pam Houston, Marie Howe, Leslie Jamison, Danusha Lameris, Anis Mojgani, Jeannine Oullette, and Maggie Smith.

⭐️ Generative Sessions with Joy

Twice a month, Joy leads a generative session focused on our monthly theme. These virtual sessions begin with a craft lesson, a time of group analysis on a sample work, and then guided exercises.

⭐️ Writer’s Workshop

Twice a month, we offer Writer's Workshop where you can sign up to have you work critiqued by me or one of our resident professors. Like me, both

Kelly Grace Thomas

and Brad Modlin have MFAs and extensive teaching experience so you can learn from a diversity of aesthetics and writing philosophies.

Meet your professors:

⭐️ Monthly Assignments + Biannual Challenges

In Sustenance, you’ll be given a monthly writing assignment to complete as well as an opportunity to share it with peers. Twice a year, we also hold an intensive 30 day challenge to help you explore and expedite new writing projects.

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$1200 for an ANNUAL Subscription

Includes access to:

• Monthly feedback sessions with Joy and other MFA-level professors and instructors

• Live monthly learning with acclaimed guest authors

• Writing showcase forum for feedback

• Twice monthly generative sessions with Joy

• Community writing challenges and assignments

• Weekly peer writing and feedback groups

• Immediate access to our video library, including previous workshops with Joy and other guest speakers, including Kate Baer, Ellen Bass, Danusha Lameris, Maggie Smith, and Leslie Jamison (over $5,000 value)

35 spots open to our nearly 700 waitlist subscribers on January 9, 2025! Doors close as soon as those spots fill and won’t reopen until April.

Please note that tuition rates will increase next quarter. This the last chance to sign up at the current rate. Spots sold out within 90 minutes last quarter.

Join the waitlist to receive an sign-up email on January 9th. Only those on the waitlist will receive the link.

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P.S. Feel free to ask questions in the comments and I’ll answer them. And current Sustenance members, please say hi below also! ❤️