Short Story Club
Once a month for six months, we gather around a carefully chosen short story that exemplifies the kind of writing that heals, connects, and transforms. This is a place where we explore how great writers create authentic voice, emotional truth, and compassionate storytelling and then we practice those techniques ourselves.
Each month, you'll receive a short story to read, deep-dive craft content that explores the ways in which the author created their magic, and an invitation to write your own work inspired by what you've learned. Then we come together on Zoom to discuss, share, and write together.
This is literary study meets writing practice meets mindful community for writers who want to learn from great short story writers while discovering their own authentic voice.
Starts: 1st June 2026
How the Story Club Works
Story to Read
Craft Deep-Dive
Craft Deep-Dive
Shared with you on the first of the month either as PDF or a link to the story online — a story that demonstrates wonderful craft while embodying compassion, empathy, and authentic human connection.
Craft Deep-Dive
Craft Deep-Dive
Craft Deep-Dive
In-depth exploration of how the author creates their effects and warm, accessible guidance on techniques you can apply to your own writing, along with prompts to get you trying it yourself.
Community Space
Community Space
Community Space
Access to our dedicated space on the Mindful Writer WetInk site where you can share reflections, insights, works-in-progress, and connect with fellow writers throughout the month.
Zoom Gathering
Community Space
Community Space
90-minute live gathering (last Sunday of each month at 4pm UK time) where we discuss the story, explore the craft, and write together using prompts inspired by what we've read. All sessions are recorded if you can't attend one live.
Your Guide
Amanda Saint
Amanda Saint is the founder of The Mindful Writer, author of three novels and many short stories, and an award-winning publisher who has spent many years learning to become more compassionate with herself, others, her writing, and the world.
She's been teaching creative writing for 15 years, but what she's really teaching is how to pay attention. How to stay present with a story. How to discover what you actually want to say when you stop trying to sound like someone else.
An accredited mindfulness mentor, meditation teacher, Yoga Nidra teacher, journal therapist, and Reiki practitioner, she brings her contemplative practice directly into her teaching. She believes the best short stories emerge when writers learn to witness their own experience with honesty and tenderness, and that craft serves truth, not the other way around.
The Short Story Club is an extension of everything she's learned about presence, story, and the transformative power of paying close attention to how great writers create authentic human connection on the page.