Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts.
Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka
A personal letter
Creative process, behind the scenes of my life as a writer, script editor, artist, and mentor for creatives. Notes on creative living, diary entries, and observations of my Viennese life as an expat and a new mom.
Original writing & artwork
Postcards, prints, and stickers. Short stories, poems, and excerpts from my literary novel.
Themed memorabilia
Something I keep a secret until you get your envelope. You can expect activities, photos, reproductions etc., supporting the month’s theme.
Why Mail?
There is a particular kind of person who gets way too excited about the mailbox in a world where AI is getting progressively bigger and scarier. That person is me, and I love that about myself.
I love keeping postcards for years from people close to me and those who ended up far away, not only physically. I love finding old letters from my schoolmates in an old carved box that belonged to my grandmother Lidia. All my books have a flower pressed between their pages. The tin box under my bed keeps my filled journals safe. Old tickets, stones of a funny shape and color, and little feathers constantly live in my vintage bags.
And if I’m going to be completely honest, The Correspondence Post was created for that person.
For me.
For you, because we both know you are exactly the same.
You get me. I can feel it.
Once a month I send a letter.
Once a month you open your mailbox and find it there.
Then you brew some tea or coffee, sit in the warm light of a lamp or a candle, and open it.
A letter where I’m being vulnerable and the most myself.
You frame a print and sign a postcard. Your journal gets a few new stickers to support a story you tell it later.
No month is exactly the same. Where’s the fun in that?
So expect themes of the past and present, inspired by the Victorians, old-world melancholia, and our world in general.
Who’s Writing?
I am a writer. I write literary fiction. I write stories for my son. I write in my diary.
I grow strawberries and roasted on my balcony. I read trillers late into the nights. I drink iced coffee in dead winter. I paint. I edit movie scripts. I sing. I have a choreography diploma.
My desk is not tidy. That’s a lie, it’s a mess. My life is the same. I can continue with all the I’s , but let’s leave something for the letters.
This club is not one road conversation. I hope you answer my letter, and I’ll write you back.
Mailing Schedule
Dispatched during the second week of every month.
Austria: 2–5 business days
EU: 5–15 business days