WEBINAR | The Art of Book Reviewing: Discovering Connection through Critique
May 6 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
In a crowded publishing marketplace, professionally reviewing books is a way to network and build your byline.
Focus: Creative Nonfiction though LARGELY THE PRINCIPLES APPLY ACROSS GENRES
Book reviewing is a time-tested, excellent way to connect with literary venues and network with writers further along in their careers. Whether you have a manuscript of creative nonfiction well underway or are just beginning to break into essay or memoir writing, reviewing also allows you to practice critical approaches to writing that transfer to resolving thorny issues in your work.
In a time of thumbs up or thumbs down and dashed-off Goodreads reviews of “this sucked” or “loved it,” there’s an art to book reviewing—and a need for a blending of personal and critical analysis. But there are many different types and formats of book reviews and countless outlets that accept them, so it may be difficult to know where to get started.
In this webinar we will outline different types of book reviews and outlets, learn the do’s and don’ts (and the value!) in the writing and publishing process of book reviews, and take home craft tools to create a successful review of your own.
Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.
In this webinar, you will:
- LEARN do’s and don’ts of book review pitching and writing
- GAIN PERSPECTIVE on reviewing as a means of elevating your own writing and others’
- DISCOVER how searching for comps in a book review helps find comps for your own manuscript
- LEARN how the practice of analysis and critique leads to stronger writing
- DISCOVER venues for your reviews and the expectations for different outlets
- LEARN how reviewing is a valuable networking tool in the creative nonfiction and independent publishing communities
- DECONSTRUCT a sample review structure
This webinar is ideal for writers and readers of creative nonfiction who …
- hope to professionally network with others in the field
- seek practice pitching both critical and creative work
- are interested in book reviewing but not sure how to start
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Brooke Champagne is a native New Orleanian and the award-winning author of Nola Face: A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy, named a Best Book of 2024 from Kirkus Reviews. Her book of cultural criticism and reportage, Drive-Thru Daiquiri, is forthcoming with LSU Press. Champagne serves as Book Reviews Editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA Program at the University of Alabama.
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