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

You left me because you hated your mother.
You’ve met me at a weird time in my life.
“I am not an animal,” Regina muttered as foam hit the screen.
A white horse wearing a silver-gilded helmet with large white tufted feathers sticking out of it and matching epaulettes will still stink.
God said fatherhood is a blessing, but his father went to jail for impregnating his mom.