Writathon 2026

Hemingway once said writing, at its best, is a lonely life. He was probably right. But he never spent a weekend in Bern with the rest of us.

For our first ever Writathon, the authors of this journal gathered around one table. The idea was simple. Get everyone in the same room, write together, throw ideas around, and figure out how to actually work as a team.

So we did. We brainstormed. We argued a little, in the good way. We talked about how to help each other when the writing stalls, because sooner or later it always does.

Here are a few impressions from the weekend:

Special thanks to Alexandra Andrist, who put everything together, to David Pestalozzi, who ran the kitchen, and to the writer Jrene Rolli, who shared her expertise in writing clearly and for real people.