The first meeting of the Publishers & Booksellers Meet-Up Group will be on March 26, 2026. This will be a hybrid event, with the in-person portion happening at Trace Brewing in Bloomfield (4312 Main Street). The in-person mingling starts at 7PM, with the official portion of the meeting running from 7:30-8:30PM. If you're interested in attending, you can find the full details and Zoom link at this Google Calendar event.

Feedback Open Mics

Our next feedback open mic will be March 30, 2026

Feedback Open Mics take place at Nico's Recovery Room in Bloomfield and sign-ups start at 7pm. Check out the flyer below for more deets:

Recordings from the most recent open mics are posted to our Facebook page. You can also check out some recordings from our first two Feedback Open Mics below:

Open Mic 1 (June 3, 2024):

Open Mic 2 (September 23, 2024):

Send It!

Send It! is on hiatus as of January 2026 while the Scribble House crew works on other workshops and events. We'll most likely bring it back at some point in the future, though! Here's info on how things worked during our 2025 meetings for any folks who are curious (or who want to start a similar group of their own, stealing ideas is 100% sanctioned in this case!)

For Send It! 2.0, meetings took place solely on Zoom:

The 2nd Wednesday, 7-9pm
The 4th Sunday, 1-3pm

...you can click the links above to join the room, or find the links in every month's Scribble House newsletter.

Each meeting will start with 5-10 minutes of conversation, where folks can share what they're submitting and open calls they have their eye on, or ask for advice on potential markets. You'll also be able to do this silently in the Zoom room chat throughout the meeting if you prefer!

Then, we'll all go on mute (cameras on or off, as you choose) until the halfway point (8pm on Wednesdays, 2pm on Sundays) when we'll have a brief check-in before continuing onward. We'll all reconvene one last time for the final five minutes to share any last thoughts and collectively celebrate sending our work out into the world!

As always, the Scribble House crew will have resources available including:

Open Calls - Curated list of places currently open for submission
This Submission Quick Guide Google Doc - With advice on how to find journals and presses to submit to, how to write cover letters, and other helpful info

...links to those will be posted in the chat every meeting, or you can click the links above to check them out any time.

Send It! is free and open to writers of all experience levels. If you want to get a reminder of upcoming meetings, you can join the Scribble House Meetup group.

Past Events

Workshop Matchmaking:

Ebensburg Speed-Date Edition

Where: The Festival of Books in the Alleghenies (Veterans Park, Ebensburg, PA)

Here's how the event will work in this special Speed-Date Edition for the Festival of Books in the Alleghenies:

Participants register by filling out the Registration Google Form or by filling out a paper registration form in-person at the festival.
Participants come to the Writing Activity Tent at 3:30pm on 9/21 with a 1-2 page (under 500 words) sample of their writing to share
The Scribble House team breaks participants into groups of 4-5 based on their responses to the questions on the form.
Each participant gets a 10-minute slot to first share their work with the group (by reading it aloud, or by bringing copies to distribute if you'd rather) then hear the group's comments and thoughts in a "sample workshop". The goal of this is for everyone to get a sense for each other's writing style and feedback approach to assess who you might gel well with as a workshop or feedback partner.
At the end of the event, participants exchange contact info with the people they want to potentially connect with for feedback in the future.

Workshop Matchmaking

Sunday, October 22nd 2023, 2:30-5pm

Matchmakers find people who will be compatible, and this event will do the same thing for writers! Workshop Matchmaking brings together people looking for writing partners, workshop groups, and beta readers to help them find new sources of constructive feedback.

It's free to take part, but you do have to pre-register (since we'll need to know some info about you to pair you up with like-minded writers!). Attendance is limited to 15 and registration is first-come first-serve. If slots fill up we'll open up a wait list and post info here on how to get on it.

How's This Whole Thing Gonna Work?

We'll split the attendees into groups of 3-6 people based on their responses to the registration survey (click here to see a preview of the questions).
We'll send you info on the folks in your group, along with the works you'll be workshopping, by Wednesday, October 18th.
The event on Sunday will start with a brief icebreaking with everyone together. Then, we'll split into groups to workshop the pieces one at a time. Every piece will get workshopped so that everyone can get a true sense of each other's workshop style and can identify the people who give the type of feedback they find helpful.
After the workshopping, there will be some time to chat with the other attendees and exchange contact info with people you'd like to exchange work with in the future.

Scribble House Lecture Series: Unconventional Adventures in Publication

Saturday, May 25th 2023 at Bantha Tea Bar

The Scribble House Lecture Series aims to bring together a diverse set of voices to share insights and advice on the a chosen topic. This will start with 10-15 minute talks from each presenter, followed by a curated Q&A, with a handout of helpful resources and info for attendees.

For this first event, the topic is "Unconventional Adventures in Publication"--in other words, writers who are getting their words to readers in ways other than traditional book publishing. Featured speakers for this event will be:

Comic writer D.P. Brown
The Dirty Poet
Lars Peterson, editor of the Big Idea newspaper (watch his video interview)
Carlow professor and author Sarah Shotland