WEBINAR | Essays on the Writing Life: How to Write, Publish, and Get Noticed
January 28 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm EST
Essays on writing craft and the writing life are a great opportunity for you to get noticed—and published.
For All Writers | Included in the Season Pass
This may sound kind of meta (and it is), but writing about writing is a prime way for emerging and experienced writers to get published, build platform, develop their voice, and join the literary communities they’d like to be part of.
In this 75-minute live webinar, Andrea, an editor at The Brevity Blog, will take you through the steps of how to write powerful, thoughtful, and fun essays using published examples from The Brevity Blog and other key literary outlets as a hands-on guide.
Attendees will reflect on who they are as a writer, what they write, and what they’ve learned about writing and themselves. Andrea will present the wide range of potential topics for these essays and review the key elements and craft that help published pieces succeed and connect with readers. Considering your earlier reflection, you’ll brainstorm ideas for essays you can write and how to approach them.
You’ll take away a template to follow when writing about writing, a list of potential outlets with detailed descriptions and tips for submitting, and links to strong essay examples published in the outlets
Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.
In this webinar, you will:
- DISCOVER what writing about writing means and the impact these essays have
- FIND potential essay topics that mine your own writing experience
- EXPLORE key elements to writing an engaging and insightful essay about writing craft, writing process and your writing life
- LEARN why and how writing about writing leads to publication, builds platform, and grows your writing community.
- RECEIVE a list of potential outlets to target with your essays, along with specific examples
- LEARN how to develop and (when required) submit a pitch for your essay
This webinar is ideal for emerging and experienced writers who…
- want to get published, gain readers, and get noticed
- have a longer work published or in process who want to build their platform and create awareness for their project
- want to engage with and create a literary community
- want to write about their art and writing process to establish and share their expertise
- want to support and spread the word about their work as teacher, editor, or publisher
- want to provoke thought on a writing topic or raise a call to action
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Andrea A. Firth is an essayist, editor and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s an Editor at The Brevity Blog, cofounder of Diablo Writers’ Workshop, and has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Saint Mary’s College of California. Andrea has taught dozens of courses on a wide range of creative writing topics, including how to submit and get published in literary magazines and commercial outlets. Her writing focus is personal essay, which she writes about in her Substack newsletter Everything Essay!
Andrea was a finalist for The Missouri Review’s 2021 Perkoff Prize in creative nonfiction, and her work has appeared in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Allium, Please See Me, Motherwell, The Coachella Review among others. Andrea leads a free, monthly co-working session called Submit It Now! at Chill Subs, and hopes you will join her there.
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