Learn your Craft. Love Your Words.

Discover CRAFT TALKS: webinars and workshops devoted to essential writing topics, tools, publishing & more.

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.

Workshops & Masterclasses

Unleash your creative mind in generative workshops with instruction and guided in-class writing. Multi-week Masterclasses include personal feedback and/or office hours.

Seminars

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.

Community

Make connections with other creatives, learn literary citizenship, and build your writing community.

The Writers Bridge

Live, FREE, monthly talks on Zoom with platform and publishing experts and a lively chat.

And more…

Special events, seminars, networking and community connections. Join the list for upcoming events, straight to your inbox.

What’s a CRAFT TALK like? Here are some highlights from past webinars!

The Writers Bridge

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!

Recent Writers Bridge Events

Upcoming Events

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.