The Story Room

How we work together inside the society…

There is a specific kind of room writers know. It’s like the Wee Hoose in my back garden in Scotland (which is pretty damn near perfect if you ask me).

It’s the one with the pink velvet swirly chair that holds my heated blanket.

It’s the one where the book you needed in your twenties is still sitting on the shelf, dog-eared and filled with Post It notes.

It’s the one where someone is always reading (me) and someone is always thinking (me) and nobody is performing (me).

Although I love my Wee Hoose, and the occasional visits there from my husband who brings me cups of tea and sometimes steals the plug for the lawnmower, all that me time can get pretty lonely. So I’ve built a version of this room right here inside The Heroine Society.

The Story Room is the part of The Heroine Society where reading and writing become a practice we do together, not a thing each of us does alone.

For writers and non-writers alike. For the women in this room who have been writing their way through a chapter and want a place serious enough to put the work down on the table.

There are three ways in.

The Salon — live conversation, quarterly. The room where the writers from each Magazine issue and the readers who love them think out loud together.

The Magazine — the quarterly publication. Fiction and personal essays by women writing from inside a life in transition.

Submissions — the door if you want your writing in the room.

Pick one. They lead into each other.