Hi! Welcome to The Good Egg Project! A place for writers of all levels and genres to hatch new ideas and get words on paper.
I’m Naomi Head, an Edinburgh-based freelance writer, poet and digital media professional.
Thank you for joining our community!
What is The Good Egg Project?
The Good Egg Project community is a pay-what-you-can community for writers by writers.
The project is part of my freelance practice and I’m creating a place for people to write together, meet new friends, and share (and eventually publish) their work.
For me, The Good Egg Project is a way to pay forward the help I’ve received at the start of my writing career in 2019. I also want to provide writers with additional support that I wish I’d had in the early stages of freelancing and writing.
Over the last five years, I’ve learned from so many people at events, in publications, and online, and I’ve found support in so many places. I’m passing my knowledge on because the more we talk to each other and share our knowledge, the more we can change and improve across all writing related disciplines, from poetry and creative writing to journalism and copywriting.
Which is why your support is vital.
Join the crew
If you’re looking to carve out some writing time, meet other writers or hatch your new ideas, you can join The Good Egg Project community as a free or paid subscriber.
Paid subscriptions for our newsletter start at £5.
Become part of our community of writers who are looking to challenge themselves, get creative and build confidence in their work.
Come join us and take the next steps on your writing journey, whether your work is words or they’re your way of expressing yourself and unwinding.
Let us know more about your writing journey or leave your questions in the comments section, or support our community with a subscription.
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Why subscribe?
Free subscribers have access to our community newsletter, where we share event updates for The Chicken Coop, courses, prompts, learning resources and creative exercises, and feature events from our local community and other writers from across Scotland.
Paid subscribers have access to our online community Discord Server, our twice monthly Sketchy Beats writing groups, and the back catalogue of all of our newsletters, plus early access to sign-ups for The Chicken Coop and early-access to tickets for any future courses!
The newsletter is currently in development and I’m keen to demystify a few different topics and answer some questions about writing (as a an activity for play and as a profession).
Upcoming questions and topics I want to delve into include: getting your work published, landing performance opportunities, pay transparency, do you need a degree to be a writer, and how to run events or writing groups!
I’ll be looking for contributors and interviewees soon, subscribe to get early access to our open calls.
There’s so much I’m looking forward to doing with this project soon, and I hope you’ll come on this journey with me and our community!
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Our newsletters are filled with news about our regular writing groups in Edinburgh.
You’ll get updates about our monthly writing group hosted at Lost in Leith, The Chicken Coop Writing Group, which meets on the last Tuesday of the month.
We cross share opportunities for performing, publishing and career development from our local community and across the UK. We also feature events from our writer’s community to show them what’s possible from the page to the stage and to help brilliant events reach more people.
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Thank you for reading!
I hope you’ve enjoyed learning more about The Good Egg Project today. If you’re a writer based in Edinburgh, please get in touch or come join us at Lost in Leith on the last Tuesday of the month.
Your subscriptions, free or paid, are very much appreciated and allow me to continue growing our community, providing performance and development opportunities for our writers, and to keep doing this work!
Take care and happy writing,
Naomi
(she/her)
Writer, poet, digital media professional and runner of The Good Egg Project
