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We gather with neurodivergent writers to explore writing practices in their own way, at their own pace.

We practice neurodiversity as an ensemble. We move against the notion that creative life should be normalized under neurotypical demands. We move with the notion that writing flourishes in all directions, as do lives.

We support language accessibility of all kinds. This support begins with listening, and it continues in a pattern of reception and celebration.

We play in spaces of composition and correspondence, where writers can learn and unlearn with teaching-writers, with each other; where words can find deeper ears; where libraries can emerge and entanglements grow; things that happen in the care of making.

We stretch to meet collective and individual needs. All of our work is financially accessible and open to a multitude of forms. Creative practice must be for everyone.

We acknowledge that our work takes place on and across the lands of many indigenous nations. Since much of our work is constellated through the lands of the Ohlone, we pay a voluntary land tax to the Sogorea Te Land Trust. We also financially support organizations that advocate for the rights of nonspeaking individuals to find means of expression and make person-centered choices: CommunicationFIRST, The Alliance for Citizen Directed Supports, and The International Association for Spelling as Communication.

We want to find other ways to be here together.