WEBINAR | The Fine Art of Containment: Finding New Ways to Hold Your Story
Zoom
April 27, 2025
Tamara Dean
SEMINAR | Bearing Witness: Writing About Place
Zoom
April 29, 2025
Michelle Cutler
Writers Bridge | Based On: Adapting True Stories to Screenplays
Zoom
April 30, 2025
Dinty W. Moore
WEBINAR | Smarter Than You Think: Trusting Readers with Subtlety, Nuance, and the Pleasures of Uncertainty
Zoom
May 3, 2025
Amy Collins
SEMINAR | Exactly What Publishers Want From Authors: The Key Steps to Landing a Book Deal
Zoom
May 7, 2025
Allison K Williams
WEBINAR | The Meaning in the Moment: Using Place, Time, and Detail to Power Your Scenes
Zoom
May 14, 2025
Heather Sellers
WEBINAR | Structure Your Story: How to Keep Readers Hooked From Start to Finish
Zoom
May 18, 2025
Nancy McCabe
8-WEEK WORKSHOP | The Shapes of Stories: Exploring Forms to Find the Right One for Your Story
Zoom
June 7, 2025
Amy Bernstein
2-DAY SEMINAR | The Quest for Clarity: The Blueprint Method to Structure Your Nonfiction Book
Zoom
July 2, 2025
Allison K Williams
SEASON PASS | Webinar Subscription Special
Zoom
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Discover Our Offerings
From one-off Webinars to in-depth Masterclasses, sentence craft to marketing, CRAFT TALKS delivers the learning options you need as a beginning, emerging, or experienced writer.
Webinars
Explore story, structure and publishing for memoir, novels and creative nonfiction. Learn practical craft and the business of writing in 90-minute classes. Replays always available.
Unleash your creative mind in generative workshops with instruction and guided in-class writing. Multi-week Masterclasses include personal feedback and/or office hours.
Dive more deeply into a single topic with notable teachers. Longer sessions and multi-day classes include advanced learning, generative writing, and take-home exercises.
What’s a CRAFT TALK like? Here are some highlights from past webinars!
Join Allison K Williams, Sharla Yates and our special guests for this lively, funny hour of frank talk about author platform, audience engagement, and just plain getting people to read your book. Always FREE, all welcome!
CRAFT TALKS are a convenient, affordable and accessible opportunity to learn and practice the art, craft, and business of writing, curated by Sharla Yates and Allison K Williams. Our presenters are professional authors, agents and editors, in touch with literary and market trends.
