This meetup is designed as a supportive space centering LGBTQ+ writers, in any genre! We'll get to know each other, work through a multi-stage writing prompt, and have the option to share our work. We'll also leave time to discuss a short reading in class, and talk through our current projects and goals.

‍Stay tuned for more LGBTQ+ meetups!

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Lane Scott Jones is a writer and speaker based in Nashville whose personal essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in Longreads, Good Grit, Nashville Scene, and in translation in Internazionale. Her writing has been awarded a 2025 ASJA (American Society for Journalists and Authors) Award for first-person essay, selected as runner-up for the W.W. Norton’s Writer’s Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, McCormack (formerly Tin House), South Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Wildacres, The Porch, and OZ Arts, among others. Lane has been a featured speaker and storyteller at events hosted by TEDx, Creative Mornings, Soho House, Nashville Design Week, and more. She is currently at work on her first book exploring gender, sexuality, and desire in the evangelical South. Originally from North Carolina, she sold everything she owned in 2022 and has been living out of a suitcase ever since. She documents the journey in Second Rodeo, a newsletter about reinvention: dispatches from traveling full-time, leaseless living, and prototyping her life, one experiment at a time.

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