The After Party Initiative
The After Party is a project about life after addiction.
Created by three writers who have a combined 53 years in recovery, The After Party offers workshops and events to explore how recovery isn't the end of life but the beginning.
So many people avoid recovery because they're terrified they'll never have fun again—often, ironically, failing to admit to themselves that the party stopped being fun years before.
The After Party is here to tell them all...the fun is just starting.
About the Founders
Lisa Smith
Carly Schwartz
Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith is a writer, speaker, podcast host and former practicing lawyer and law firm executive. She is the author of the award-winning memoir, Girl Walks Out of a Bar, which recounts her descent into and recovery from “high-functioning” alcohol and cocaine addiction in big New York City law firms. She and Anna co-host the Signal Award-winning podcast, Recovery Rocks.
Anna David
Carly Schwartz
Lisa Smith
Anna David is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books and founder of Legacy Launch Pad Publishing. She's appeared on Today, Good Morning America and The Talk, and been featured at three different TEDx events. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, The LA Times and Time, among many others. Her first book, Party Girl, has been credited with launching the "Quit Lit" movement.
Carly Schwartz
Carly Schwartz
Carly Schwartz
Carly Schwartz is the former editor in chief of the San Francisco Examiner and founding editor of HuffPost's SF bureau. Editor & Publisher magazine named her one of ten “women to watch,” and her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Standard, ELLE, MSNBC, and more. Her debut memoir, I'll Try Anything Twice, chronicles her recovery from addiction and mental health issues.
THE WORKSHOP
Getting sober is where most recovery stories end while anyone who's lived it knows that's where it starts.
In this workshop, three bestselling authors of books about their own recovery guide women—sober, sober-curious or in recovery from any addiction or mental health struggle—to write their way through what comes after addiction, depression and the shame nobody captions.
Through three lenses—identity, humor and stigma—you'll learn that the greatest stories come from the greatest struggles, and the revision comes from what you tell yourself and others. You'll draft real pages, read them aloud and leave knowing the party was only the prologue.
