For the mind that knows it was built for something denser, dirtier, more enjoyable and more meaningful than whatever this is, but feels choked by cultural collapse, AI slop, aggressive online discourse, and creative stagnation.
THE NUMBERS TELL A STORY
People from 40 countries
Use the app daily
members call it “life-changing”
Creative Living is an app, global community and library of frameworks, tools and prompts, where we also annual live intensives and guest panels every month. It’s a long-term practice space, studio, sanctuary, all inside an app on your phone or desktop, to build a relationship with your creativity that will outlast the trends, the burnout and the bullshit. Inside, you’ll find:
A global community that prioritises creative connection over performance
Daily writing prompts and 400+ practices to keep you moving without pressure
Somatic & nervous system resources to help you feel safe expressing again, and turn on your creative genius from within the Body
EFT tapping, deep visualizations + embodiment exercises to rewire the parts of you that still fear being seen, your potential, your deepest creative dreams or the relationship to creative practice itself
Live roundtables and deep discussions that feed your brain and refill your soul
Creative writing circles and monthly workshops so you never have to create alone
Seasonal themes to guide your practice and honour the rhythms of real life
A library of on-demand replays, practices and prompts to dip back into when you need a hit of truth or inspiration
The creative community all us artists and creators need to flourish
Creative Living is not a course, program, or a pedestal. It’s a living, breathing digital sanctuary, completely insulated from the noise, tracking, and transactional algorithms of social media.
No high-pressure homework. No “post three times a day” industrial complex. Just pure creative oxygen, brilliant conversations, and a space that feels like coming home.
Creative Living lives inside its own algorithm-free app — a private, members-only space mobile and desktop app designed to feel like the opposite of every platform you’re tired of. We have twice-annual live experiences and our infamous writing challenges.
Inside, you’ll find:
No content calendar. No engagement requirements. No performance metrics. Just a space that assumes you’re a grown adult with something to say and gives you the room to figure out what that is. This is the gym for your creativity you never knew you needed.
JAN – MARCH
Our infamous 6-week writing challenge, kicking off the new years with the theme: Create Over Consume.
ALL LIVE EXPERIENCES + CHALLENGES
Join us now, or simply join the waitlist and test the waters with our infamous writing challenge.
If you’re on it, you’ll get early access + a private discount window before doors open to everyone else.
It needs writers who can hold complexity without collapsing into binary arguments. Artists who create with their throat tight, their hands steady, and their heart wide open. Thinkers who value the slow, dense, intoxicating friction of original thought. Visionaries who make us gasp, laugh, weep, and remember why being human is a privilege. People who bring un-cynical hope, reckless wonder, and unapologetic joy back into the room. Work that makes someone on a grey, ordinary Monday morning stop scrolling, catch their breath, and feel genuinely, shockingly alive.
Where do you build the stamina to keep creating when the metrics are silent?
Where do you test your weirdest, most audacious ideas before the internet tries to categorise you?
Where do you rediscover the sheer, unholy thrill of making something just because it wanted to exist?
Where do you build a body of work that outlasts the 24-hour news cycle?
Where do you sit at a warm, wild table with other curious minds who spark your imagination, make you laugh, and sharpen your intellect without draining your soul?
- XANTHE APPLEYARD
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You’ll make something this year that genuinely surprises you — not because it’s perfect, but because you didn’t know that was in you
02
You’ll stop reaching for your phone in the first hour of your day and start reaching for the page — and it won’t feel like discipline, it’ll feel like hunger
03
That project you’ve been circling for years will finally take up actual pages — messy, alive, real pages
04
You’ll read your own work aloud in the kitchen and catch yourself smiling because you forgot you could write like that
05
You’ll walk into a conversation and know what you think — not what you read, not what’s trending, what you actually think
06
You’ll hold a contradictory, complicated, gloriously weird idea in your hands and instead of flattening it for a caption, you’ll follow it somewhere nobody’s been yet
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You’ll feel the difference in your body between creating because you want to and creating because you should — and you’ll never confuse the two again
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You’ll find the creative obsession you’ve been politely ignoring and give it the most dangerous thing you can give it: your full, unhurried attention
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You’ll have something to show for your year that isn’t content — it’s a body of work that’s yours that you’d put your name to whether or not a single person clapped
In order to access the fall curriculum and live sessions, you must already be a Creative Living member. If you just want to join for the January challenge, you will get access to the masterclasses, resources + replays from our fall season when you join.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
DROPPING IN JANUARY:
The first edition became a reason to write again. Hundreds of creatives printed it, shared it, lived inside it. Now we've written Edition Two. Every year, we release a new version. As long as you're a member, the newest edition is yours.
Included with every January Challenge registration is our all-new, annual digital & printable workbook:
– Cyril Connolly
PATH 1: HAPPENING NOW
$57/MONTH
Can’t wait until January? Want to step into our new, algorithm-free App space right now? Join the Creative Living Membership for $57/month to participate live in every Fall roundtable, writing workshop, somatic circle, and co-working room from October to December.
PATH 2:STARTS MID JANUARY
$288
Put your name on the VIP Waitlist for the 6-Week Flagship Challenge launching in January 2027 ($288 instead of $488). You’ll get first access to spots, guaranteed early-bird pricing, full app access in January, AND the complete Fall 2026 Replay Vault baked directly into your app.