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Lostintheletters is an Atlanta-based 501(c)(3) organization that hosts inclusive, community-based creative writing programs, including a reading series, generative workshops, writing studio sessions, and the annual Letters Festival.

Our History

Lositntheletters was founded as a reading series in 2012 that featured authors from Atlanta and the Southeast. In 2013, we created the inaugural Letters Festival to build a bridge between Atlanta and the national writing community. We currently host the quarterly Reading & Workshop Series, annual Letters Festival, and Writing Studio Hours, an intentional space where anyone can write, read, revise, and pursue any other activity to push their practices forward.

We have worked with some of the most exciting contemporary authors in the U.S. and beyond for our reading series, generative workshop series, and annual Letters Festival, including Jericho Brown, Roxane Gay, Scott McClanahan, Leesa Cross-Smith, Morgan Parker, Dorthea Lasky, Carmen Maria Machado, Tommy ‘Teebs’ Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Sarah Rose Etter, Susan Steinberg, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Sabrina Orah Mark, Mathias Svalina, Nicholas Goodly, and many others.

Staff & Board

Staff

Scott Daughtridge DeMer
Founder and Director
scott@lostintheletters.org

2023 board of directors

Noah Reyes Chair

Anya Vostrova Chambers Treasurer

Jenny Sadre-Orafai Secretary

Get in touch.

Reach out for questions regarding workshops, readings, the Letters Festival, press and media.