We won our first-ever NEA GRANT! but there is a catch….

The National Endowment for the Arts will give us $10,000 of support! We just have to match the money. Click to help:ย  donate any amount We love that you love our mission – please help us spread the word Across the USA to writers who have kids and live in rural areas (and towns where […]

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Choose your meetup!

Our weekly Writer-Parent Accountability Meetups are now entirely virtual! Drop in fee for Basic Members and nonmembers (you still have to be a parent): $10 donation per session, payable in $120 lump sum for 12 weeks of sessions. **FREE for sustaining Title Members of Pen Parentis** WATCH FOR TIME ZONE, participants welcome from anywhere! These […]



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We want to help

Promoting your side-gig and more! We know this time is impossible (because we are also under lockdown) – and we wanted to help. our weekly accountability meetups are now ONLINE and everyone can join. Now more than ever we need to be held accountable to our own writing goals. If there are too many participants […]

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Doing what we can – COVID19

Our programs are still very active! We will be running salons again as soon as it is feasible. We will NOT be shaking hands or throwing our arms around you or anything of the sort. We will take measures to help keep you all safe & healthy (as well as ourselves and our featured authors!) […]

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From Northern Jersey

2020 is the decade of the writing parent! We are thrilled to announce two new accountability meetups that will begin in 2020 to help writers raising kids stay on creative track! As always, all genres and types of writing projects are welcome, so whether you’re working on a screenplay or a memoir based on your […]

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Is this you?

Does writing make you happy? Do you wish that people could understand that? Our community does. We welcome writers of all levels who want to find balance between their writing career and their growing family. Check out our MEMBERSHIP. Attend our Meetups (currently Friday mornings 10am-11am, with optional hour of writing time after, but we […]

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