About Us

Silent Writing Happy Hour is a weekly writers’ workshop where we weekly write.  Taking inspiration from the infinite canon of literature past and present, we offer our platform weekly to a guest scribe, to inspire us with short readings prompting writing exercises, offering space and direction to write silently and hone skills.  Guest scribes then share their work, with others invited to join as the spirit and time dictates. 

“Writing is a solitary pursuit best practiced in a group,” notes SWHH co-host Jamie Hook. “Only thus, through collective efforts and habitual behavior, can be the Animal Spirits be unleashed,” concurs SWHH co-host David Buchbinder.

Writers of all stripes are passionately welcomed. We write silently for the better part of an hour, w/breaks for “Inspiration,” (as Barkeeps call it…).

Explore More Writing from SWHH

I still see him in my mind as a kind of Donnie Darko, carrot-massacring freak, and I will always feel sorry for his wife and children.
The clock survived the assault on its life, requiring only superficial repairs.
I feel good and special when the dishes are done.
I was in a musical comedy version of hell and Patti LuPone-ing my way out of it.
Rockford, where my father saw flames explode from my mother’s hair, where he lost his attitude and appetite for drink, where he always said I love you
The one ingredient that all disasters seem to agree on—the proverbial roux in the gumbo—is an inequality of romantic intent.