Conferences and events where you can connect with Scribble House in the coming months:
  • June 26-29: In Your Write Mind Workshop (Seton Hill Campus, Greensburg, PA)
  • July 12, 10am-3pm: Printed, Posted, Published: Sharing Your Writing with the World (Cambria County Library - Johnstown, PA)
  • July 25-27: Confluence (Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel, Coraopolis, PA)

 

Feedback Open Mics

Our next feedback open mic will be in July 2025

We'll update here once we have a specific date. In the meantime, here's the flyer from the May event to give folks an idea what the open mic is all about.

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 back as of May 2025! The core idea of the group is the same as before: a dedicated time for writers and artists to submit work to publishers in the company of other creative folks. This isn't a critique group--the idea is to show up with work that's finished, polished, and ready to publish. The goal is part accountability to keep people sending their work out, part support through the process, and part knowledge-sharing about open calls and publishers.

The format will be a bit different for Send It! 2.0. For the rest of 2025 (and potentially after that, though we're not thinking quite that far ahead yet), Send It! will meet twice a month only on Zoom:

...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:

...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)
    • 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.

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

    1. Participants register by filling out the Registration Google Form or by filling out a paper registration form in-person at the festival.
    2. 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
    3. The Scribble House team breaks participants into groups of 4-5 based on their responses to the questions on the form.
    4. 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.
    5. 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?

    1. 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).
    2. We'll send you info on the folks in your group, along with the works you'll be workshopping, by Wednesday, October 18th.
    3. 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.
    4. 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:

    You can click the links above to find out more about the featured speakers. We're stoked to hear this variety of perspectives on the many ways to get words in front of readers!