About Gateless

Gateless Writing is a literary arts organization that uses creative brain science, ancient Zen and highly effective craft resources to move you beyond the conditioned, critical mind to your limitless potential as a writer.

What Is Gateless?

If you have been tapped by the spirit of the word, you have the power to change the world.

Gateless Writing is a worldwide literary arts organization founded in 2008 by the author Suzanne Kingsbury.

Through our Teacher Training program, our ten-month-long Writing Academy and Writing Retreats around the world, Gateless demystifies the publishing industry and allows writers to make their dreams come true.

Gateless debunks the myth of the struggling artist and creates a close-knit community of writers who encourage, support and adore each other to the point of publication, and beyond.

Gateless writers are repped by the best literary agents in New York including Writers House, Park and Fine, Inkwell, William Morris, Aevitas Creative, DeFiore & Company, and the Carol Mann Agency.

They have signed book deals with HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, St. Martin’s Press and more.
Gateless writers reach a level of mastery and create astonishing writing.

Who Are Gateless Writers?

Writing can be a raucous playground of community and collaboration.

The Gateless community welcomes emerging and experienced novelists, memoirists, narrative nonfiction and prescriptive nonfiction writers.

Many of our writers have careers in the field of writing, the therapeutic arts, counseling, medicine, education, and business. They are athletes, attorneys, mothers, solo-preneurs, and so much more.

They have been featured in and on The New York Times, the Today Show, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone Magazine, TEDx and TEDx Women, O Magazine and many others.

The methodology and its community allows you to move beyond the confines of the habituated programming of the overarching culture to a feeling of bliss and flow that allows you to take creative risks you never could have imagined.

To become part of the global network of writers, agents, publishers and leaders in the field of creative expression, join the Gateless Academy, one of our many Gateless Retreats, or our Gateless Teacher Training.

To find a teacher or a Gateless salon in your area, please write to us at gatelessprograms@gmail.com

What Is the Brain Science Behind Gateless?

The Gateless method has the power to blow through the critical mind to a landscape of vast creative potential.

Gateless uses the scientific model of neurotheology developed by Dr. Andrew Herzog at Harvard Medical School and Dr. Eugene D’Aquili and Dr. Andrew Newberg at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gateless is the only writing method in the world supported by creative brain science studies from Johns Hopkins University, the National Institutes of Health and Stanford University.
These assert that criticism (negative opinion stated as fact) can thwart powerful creative work.

Researchers Charles Limb and Allen Braun at the National Institutes of Health found that mastery in creative expression is reached when self-censoring is deactivated, inhibitions are shut down, and the region of the brain linked with self-expression is active.

Then imagination, innovation and creativity can soar.

Combining this brain science with potent craft tools, embodiment practices and industry know-how, Gateless Writing breaks through creative blocks and provides you with the resources needed to reach your vision of what you want to do both on the page and in the world.

About Suzanne Kingsbury

Writing can be the most exhilarating, liberating, sexiest adventure of your life.

Suzanne Kingsbury has been called an author maximizer, a book whisperer, a writing “shaman” and a leader in the field of creativity and the literary arts.

She is the award-winning author of two critically acclaimed novels, both published by Scribner, translated widely abroad and optioned for film.

Suzanne started her writing career by studying novel writing with Frank Conroy, the late director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

She graduated from Bennington College with a Master’s of Fine Arts in Literature and Creative Writing, where she studied the creative process as it relates to contemporary neuroscientific studies and ancient Zen.

In 2008 she founded Gateless Writing, a worldwide organization that supports writers to the point of publication and beyond.

Through salon-style Gateless Retreats, the Gateless Writing Academy for writers with work-in-progress, and the Gateless Teacher Training, Suzanne has helped countless writers on their path to signing with top agents, getting acquired by the major New York publishing houses, hitting bestseller lists, winning literary awards and moving into media spotlights.

Suzanne is the recipient of a Fulbright Award, an Oxford Town Fiction Award and has been shortlisted for the Robert Olen Butler Award for Short Fiction, the Fog City Writer’s Award and a Dana Award.

Her writing has been reviewed and published in The Independent, The Guardian, the LA Times, Ms. Magazine, O Magazine, People, Rolling Stone (European edition), NPR affiliates and many others.

Culture Fly named her one of the most talented writers of our age and five years after Gateless was born, the 2013 Writers’ Guide named her as an expert of the creative process.

In her previous life, Suzanne worked at the School for International Training with language and cultural immersion programs in Africa and Asia. She is a certified Laban technique dance teacher (K-12), has choreographed for the Bread and Puppet Theatre and worked in Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institute in Soho.

Today she splits her time between New York City and southern Connecticut.

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Gateless Writing is a delicious calling that builds careers and changes lives…