You keep meaning to write.
We made a room for you to do it.
The Substack you'll start once things settle, the bio that never sounds like you, the memoir that lives mostly in your head. The Woolf Pack makes space exactly for that: the writing you keep almost starting, now made weekly, and together.
A room of your own, and a circle around it.
The name carries two threads: Virginia Woolf, who wrote her way down to the current of her own mind, and Clarissa Pinkola Estés, who gave us Women Who Run With the Wolves.
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A weekly writing practice, and a pack to keep you in it.
Each week we write together online. No performance, no polish, just the pen moving until something true surfaces. Once a month we gather in person in New York to workshop our lumps of clay, the raw pieces worth shaping into a Substack article, your website copy, or the memoir you keep almost starting.
Membership includes:
Weekly gatherings online (75 min guided creative memory writing, member only)
Monthly in person in New York, beginning July 2026
Personalized welcome kit (notebook & pen + more)
Notes on Pricing:
$55/month founding rate, $79 thereafter
Founding members keep the founding rate for as long as they stay
Drop-in rates: $25 for online, $45 for IRL meetup
What a Session Looks Like
Most weeks we meet online for 75 min and the shape stays the same: a soft landing, a prompt, then a long stretch of writing with nothing to perform. Once a month, in New York, we trade the screen for a table and workshop what surfaced.
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We open with a welcome circle, a breath, and a few minutes to land. No catching up to do, no pressure to be interesting. Just arrive.
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One prompt to point you somewhere: an archetype, a line of poetry, a sensorial experience, a question worth sitting with. Then you're off.
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The heart of it. A long, timed stretch with the pen moving and the inner editor off duty. We don't write well here. We write true.
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A few quiet minutes to read back what came up. Share a line if you want to, or keep it to yourself. The circle witnesses; it never grades.
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We close together and name one thing to carry into the week. Your pages are yours, lumps of clay to shape later, alone or with the pack.
Our Circle’s Core Principles
This is your author's circle. We're building a safe space, a tight-knit community where souls are shared as words are written. For it to work, we must all be on the same page about these principles.
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We listen actively. Each person's story is a generous window into their mind and soul. We take it in like The Fool archetype: open, eager, assuming we have everything to learn.
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We bear witness to what others share, and we protect it. Because it takes courage to speak our truth, what's shared in this circle stays in this circle.
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As another's words resonate, we ask permission before we remix or paraphrase a term, a sentence, or an idea they shared or coined. When someone’s words feels like home, we don't copy: we quote.
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When someone's writing strikes a chord so deep we feel we could have written it ourselves (it will happen, that's the magic of resonance at play), we turn the feeling from wistful regret that we didn't into sincere gladness that they wrote it.
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This is a hard one to hold. When someone needs a minute with their words or feelings, we give it. We don't rush to fill it with a hug, a fix, or an explanation they didn't ask for. We hold the space, and let them name what they need.
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We don't workshop, correct, or improve each other's words unless we're asked. This is a place to generate, not to polish. Feedback is a gift offered only on request.
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We bring the rough, the unfinished, the half-formed. Nobody here is performing. The draft that embarrasses you is exactly what belongs in the room.
Frequently Asked Questions
Still wondering if this is for you? Read on, or reach out anytime. And if you already know, there's a seat with your name on it.
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For people (especially women) in the middle of a becoming, living in liminal spaces and writing themselves through a season of change.
You did what you were supposed to, and somewhere it started to feel hollow. The old ways have stopped working, and while you can't go back to who you were, you can't yet see who you're becoming. We write our way through that in-between, whether you arrive with a blank page or a manuscript half-built.
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No. Most people arrive thinking I'm not really a writer. The practice is built for exactly that. No experience needed, no polish expected, just a willingness to put the pen down and let something true surface.
Also, if you write, it’s maybe time you start considering yourself a writer. But that’s a longer conversation. :) -
Weekly online and ongoing, plus a monthly in-person gathering in New York that begins July 2026. The weekly write is Fridays, 2 PM EST.
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No, it’s optional. Sharing is always invited and never expected. Stream-of-consciousness means the page is yours first; the circle witnesses what you choose to read aloud, and nothing more.
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Come as you can. The pack keeps the rhythm so you don't have to carry it alone, and your seat is there when you come back. It's a practice, not a performance.
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You're still welcome. The weekly write is online, so you join from anywhere. The monthly in-person gathering is the bonus for New York members, or for whenever you're in town.
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$55 a month at the founding rate, $79 after, and founding members keep the founding rate for as long as they stay. It's month to month, so you can pause or leave anytime.
Drop-in rates are $25 online, $45 per IRL event.