History Has a Massive Gender Bias. We’ll Settle for Fixing Wikipedia.

Thanks to Ilana Ross for leading our project to write more Wikipedia articles about women, and to Mintaro Oba and others for helping Wikipedia recognize great women writers.

Interview with the Washington Post

West Wing Writers Presents: SpeakEasy

New York City: Do you like speeches? What about speechwriters? What about fun? If so, join us for another evening of laughing, learning, and libations at Caveat on the Lower East Side.

Tuesday, March 5, at 9 p.m.

Kate Childs Graham

Stacey Abrams Is the SOTU Responder We’ve Been Waiting For

Abrams doesn’t have to fight to get our attention. She already has it.

Essay on Medium

Political Speechwriters Weigh in on Acting Attorney General’s Testimony

“It’s just to remind the president of what James Wilson in Pennsylvania said,” Paul Orzulak says of the House Judiciary Committee hearings: “Congress are the ‘grand inquisitors of the realm.’”

Interview with NPR’s All Things Considered

What Would Hippolytus Do?

In her review of Donna Zuckerman’s Not All Dead White Men, Peggy Xu considers how the alt-right is appropriating Classics.

Book Review for the Times Literary Supplement

In addition to writing for clients, we’ve written our own books to wide acclaim, contributed op-eds and articles to newspapers and online news outlets, and appeared internationally on TV and radio news programs. Here is some of our recent work.

Raul Quintana

Orations Worth Ovations: The Olive Branch as a Weapon

For the inaugural essay in our “Orations Worth Ovations” series on great speeches, Raul Quintana digs into perhaps the most famous inauguration address of all: Lincoln’s second.

Essay on Medium

Ellie Schaack

Steal This Job: Speechwriter

You can steal the job, just don't steal her! Our Ellie Schaack talks about her speechwriting career with the Washington Post.

Interview with the Washington Post

Brian Agler

Not-to-Be-Missed Shouts of 2018

Congratulations to our Brian Agler on his Not-To-Be-Missed essay, “I’m Jeff Bezos, and I’m Your Dad Now.”

Essay for The New Yorker

Riley Roberts

Riley Roberts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Boyfriend: 5 Fast Facts

It’s true that our Riley Roberts isn’t dating Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But we still like him. And her.

Noted on Heavy

Ziya Smallens

Enlivening Politics: Ziya Smallens ’16

We’re so proud to have Ziya Smallens on our team — and glad to read this young alumni profile from Oberlin College.

Interview with Oberlin College

Why DIY Democrats Are the Future of Progressive Politics

Essay for Ozy

Resistance Groups Rejected the Democratic Party Model in 2018 — and Won. Here’s Why

Essay for ThinkProgress

Four Ways to Improve Your Innovation Success Rate

OpenView Labs

The Founders Look at Modern America

Book Review for the New York Times

There Are No More Good Things

Essay for The New Yorker

Press Releases

West Wing Writers Names Managing Partner, Welcomes New Principal

January 4, 2018

West Wing Writers Welcomes New Staff

November 20, 2013

West Wing Writers Welcomes New Staff, Congratulates Alumni Named to Obama Team

June 24, 2013

Did Trump Hit the Reset Button on His Presidency?

Vinca LaFleur tells CTV News she doesn’t think a reset is possible. But the “low-energy” State of the Union was, perhaps, “the night the President’s speechwriters became President.”

Interview with CTV News

A Characteristically Dark Speech That Failed to Explain How America Can Succeed

Jeff Shesol live-blogged the State of the Union. His real-time verdict? “It was the sort of speech that sends a person into a fallout shelter alone with his tax cut and his Second Amendment rights.”

Essay for The New Yorker

For Trump’s State of the Union, the Medium Is the Message

Is it possible for Trump to appear “presidential”? That question “is a signal of how deeply different and abnormal in many ways this presidency is,” Vinca LaFleur tells DW.

Interview with DW

Trump’s State of the Union and the Consequences of Low Expectations

The question on many Americans’ minds today is not “What is the state of our union?” but “What is the state of the President’s mental health?”

Essay for The New Yorker

What Trump’s Speechwriting Team Can Learn from Clinton’s 1998 Scandal

Vinca LaFleur’s advice for President Trump’s speechwriters? Quit.

Interview with Politico

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