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

The one ingredient that all disasters seem to agree on—the proverbial roux in the gumbo—is an inequality of romantic intent.
Let me tell you about dependency. Not the vulgar physical kind—track marks, tremors, the bodily revolt—but something more insidious. A psychological topology where every interaction is mediated through this small, mathematically perfect oval.
Before you, in the tree that was at your back, there sits a snowy owl. You stop and stand there, looking at each other, two sets of eyes, yellow and brown. Two animals in the dark. Then he blinks, turns his head, and takes to the air. You stay there for a moment. You wonder what color your daughter’s eyes will be.
Surely, he must have been good in bed. He must have been SPECTACULAR, really, if I was so willing to haul ass up to Yonkers to sleep with him. You would be mistaken.
Did you ever stand in the Military Expenditures room of the United Nations headquarters and see the minute-to-minute report of weapons expenses around the world?
For their crimes against language, he charged them four times the amount.