We’ve got some great events coming up for you this week both online and in-person.

Here’s the round-up!

✍️ Online Events for Writers This Week

• 5.14 ✍️ A Conversation with Author Jordan Harper (Everybody Knows, A Violent Masterpiece) I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be interviewing author Jordan Harper this Thursday 5/14 at 10am PT / 1pm ET on Substack Live! Jordan Harper is the Edgar Award winning author of books like She Runs Shotgun, Everybody Knows, and his latest LA noir novel, A Violent Masterpiece. The absolutely stunning prose and character development in Everybody Knows and A Violent Masterpiece made them ~ instant ~ favorite reads of mine, and if you want a look into the grittier side of Los Angeles, these tight thrillers are exactly what you should read next.

  • Bookmark the Substack live to be notified when we go live + to get access to the replay!

✍️ bookmark this Substack Live

• 5.14 ✍️ Community Spotlight: Julie Clark Robinson on Writing Personal Essays. As part of my ongoing series of having conversations with writers in our ✍️ Make Writing Your Job community, I’m thrilled to be chatting with writer Julie Clark Robinson this Thursday at 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET on Substack Live! We’ll be talking about what it takes to get paid 💰 to write personal essays.

  • Bookmark our conversation so you can be notified when we go live + when the replay gets sent out!

✍️ bookmark this Substack Live

🧘 Events for Writers in San Francisco

This Wednesday at 3pm I’ll be leading a journaling + yoga class at The Commons in Hayes Valley in San Francisco!

Bring your journals + your mats and I’ll see you there :)

🧘 RSVP Here!

See you online or in person!

-Amy

We’ve got THREE events happening this upcoming week and we’d love to see you at one (or all) of them.

Here’s what’s coming up on our events calendar:

✍️ Co-Working & Coffee Writer Meetup — Los Angeles

📅 Tuesday, April 7 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

📍 North Hollywood

Calling all LA writers! Come spend a couple hours co-working, chatting, and meeting fellow freelancers and creators in The Valley. No agenda, no programming — just good company and good coffee. The first 10 to arrive get a coffee on us. ☕

🎁 Paid subscribers only

✍️ RSVP Here

✍️ Co-Working & Coffee Writer Meetup — San Francisco

📅 Friday, April 10 | 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

📍 The Marina, San Francisco

Bay Area writers, this one’s for you! Same vibe as LA — bring your laptop or notebook and work on whatever’s on your plate. We’ll be there, the coffee will be there, and so will your people. First 10 through the door get a coffee on us. ☕

🎁 Paid subscribers only

✍️ RSVP Here

🌿 Creatives ONLY Social Club Picnic — Presidio, San Francisco

📅 Saturday, April 11 | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

📍 Main Parade Lawn, Presidio of San Francisco

🎟️ Tickets: $15

This one is open to ALL creatives — writers, photographers, painters, musicians, potters, filmmakers, collage girlies, you name it. If you care deeply about some form of creative expression, you belong here.

We’re kicking off the very first Creatives ONLY Social Club with a picnic on the Presidio lawn. Light bites and non-alcoholic drinks are covered. Bring yourself, bring a snack to share, bring your sketchbook. Come meet your people.

✍️ RSVP Here

We can’t wait to see some of your faces this week. If you’re in Los Angeles or San Francisco, come say hi — we love getting to know you and your writing!

💡 Plus: are you interested in being a featured writer for our live Substack reading event in San Francisco?

Want to get up on a stage and do a live reading of a short story or featured essay you’ve written? We’re tentatively planning a live reading event in May and want to see which writers would be interested in being featured.

If that’s you please fill out our interest form below:

✍️ apply to be a featured writer

Sending good writing vibes,

-Amy & Kyle of Make Writing Your Job

👩‍💻 P.S. Want us to bring writerly events to your city? Let us know in the comments where we should go next/what types of events you want to see!

Come write with us! ✍️

​If you’re a paid MakeWritingYourJob.com subscriber based in Los Angeles or San Francisco, we are hosting meetups for you!

​Join your fellow local writers for a casual morning of coffee, conversation, and co-working. Meet creatives near you who are doing the same thing you are — freelancing, pitching, building a writing career — and spend a couple hours in good company.

​Bring your laptop or a notebook and work on whatever’s on your plate. No agenda, no programming, just writers being writers together.

​The first 10 people to arrive get a coffee on us. ☕

​These events are exclusively for paid ✍️ Make Writing Your Job subscribers — RSVP at any of the Luma events below to save your spot!

​👋 Hosted by Amy Suto and Kyle Cords, founders of MakeWritingYourJob.com, a top-25 bestselling business Substack and writing job board for writers all over the world.

☕️ Los Angeles Co-Working & Coffee Meetups

• RSVP for our Sunday, March 29th 10am-noon meetup at a central LA coffeeshop

• RSVP for our Monday, March 30th 11am-1pm meetup at a westside LA coffeeshop

• RSVP for our Thursday, April 2nd 11am-1pm meetup at a midcity LA coffeeshop

• RSVP for our Tuesday, April 7th 11am-1pm meetup at a valley LA coffeeshop

👋 San Francisco Co-Working & Coffee Meetups

• RSVP for our Friday, April 10th 9am-11am meetup in a Marina coffeeshop

See you there!

-Amy & Kyle

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