Finish your book.
Finally.
Accountability, community, and expertise wrapped in an anti-workshop format to get your writing done.
Hi, friend!
We see you. We’ve been there. Staring at a blank page with this big, beautiful book in your head and no idea how to get it done. Writer’s block, depression, laziness. You name it, we’ve had it.
But getting unstuck may not be as hard (or as expensive) as you think. This is how we finished our books and got our writing consistency back. Let us help you with yours.
Your Coaches
We are award-winning authors and longtime accountability partners
Annie Hartnett and Tessa Fontaine.
We believe most writers need the support and accountability of a traditional workshop minus the endless feedback. We created the Accountability Workshops to be that sweet spot.
annie hartnett
Author of novels RABBIT CAKE (Tin House Books, 2017), UNLIKELY ANIMALS (Random House, 2022) and THE ROAD TO TENDER HEARTS (Random House, 2025)
tessa fontaine
Author of THE ELECTRIC WOMAN: A MEMOIR IN DEATH-DEFYING ACTS (FSG, 2018), the novel THE RED GROVE (FSG, 2024), and MFA Faculty at Warren Wilson College
How We Help
Accountability
You’ll write a contract for a writing routine that’s consistent, but doable (which doesn’t have to be every day). Then we help hold you accountable to it.
Community
Join a cozy cohort of 12-15 writers to meet bi-weekly for 90 minutes on zoom, navigating the crazy, thrilling journey of completing a book-length project. Plus, an amazing community via slack, book club, monthly speakers and more.
Expertise
Group and 1:1 coaching opportunities with Annie and Tessa to help solve those gnarly creative problems you can’t find your way out of alone. Plus, expert authors, agents, editors and more as rotating monthly guests.
Who We Help
writers
Whether you are working on your first or fifteenth novel, a memoir, short story or essay, Accountability Workshops will help you get the words out of your head and on to the page.
poets
Build a consistent writing practice to perfect those verses and craft the collection you’ve been dreaming about.
We keep butts in seats.
You get words on the page.
Our Programs
writer’s workshop
Build that writing muscle in one of our writer cohorts. We offer a flexible month-to-month option or an annual membership with a free month.
poet’s workshop
Join a group of poets tackling the unique challenges of being a poet. We offer a flexible month-to-month option or an annual membership with a free month.
writing camp
An immersive weekend away with your writing besties. Join us at our annual camp getaway for 4 days of ass-in-chair writing action.
Joan
“tessa and annie’s workshop is a life changer. I’ve done more and better work on my novel in the nine months since joining than in the five years before that.”
Liz B.