Hot Literati
Hot Literati

Hot, cool, well-read people.

Hotter, smarter, more confident. Most algorithms are built to keep you scrolling; this one is built to make you better. In your first 30 days you read a book with the club, write 5,000 words of your own, and make a World to keep them in.

  • 12books finished this month
  • 16cities

Today’s prompt · Reflect

Write the sentence you have been afraid to finish. Then finish it.

Members respond and read each other’s responses.

From members’ Worlds

Picked by HQ

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The map

Every place has a page.

The bookstores, cafés, bars and museums worth going to, with what members say about them, who’s been, what’s on there, and the history behind them. Save them to your map and share it.

Your founding month.

Amory plans it with you. Thirty days, wherever you are.

  1. Week 1

    Begin

    Amory plans your month: the book you’ll read, the thing you’ll make, your pace.

  2. Week 2

    Practice

    Three writing sessions, on your own or alongside other members.

  3. Week 3

    Make

    5,000 words in any form. Novel, screenplay, play, poems, essays, notes.

  4. Week 4

    Share

    Publish to your World and finish the book you’re reading.

Join Hot Literati

Founding pricing ends October 31

$12.99 a month. Founding price for as long as you stay. 952 of 1,000 founding spots left.

After October 31, membership is $17.99 a month or $149 a year.

Free without joining: going to events, reading the blog, browsing Worlds, and tracking your reading.

The book club.

Members nominate books. Members vote. We all read the winner together through the month, and finish with one live meeting.

Organize anything.

Anyone can organize. List a reading, a salon, a workshop or a launch. Sell tickets and keep 95%. Every event is open to everyone, and it shows up on your city’s chapter page.

From the journal.

Essays, guides and profiles from Hot Literati.

Made by members.

  • hailo read for 19 minutesNew York, today
  • Lin read for 16 minutestoday
  • Shanice! read for 15 minutestoday
  • Marissa wrote for 1 hr 17 minNew York, today