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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Pleasures of the Personal Essay: New Ideas\, Fresh Forms\, and Expanded Markets for Your Writing
DESCRIPTION:Fun\, flexible\, and highly marketable\, the personal essay is an ideal way to extend our range and add to our writer’s toolbox.\n\n\n\nFor Nonfiction and Essay Writers \n\n\n\nThe personal essay is perhaps the oldest form of nonfiction prose yet remains one of the most misunderstood. This wonderfully flexible and creative form is as alive and inventive as the writer wishes it to be. More than memoir\, but able to include elements of one’s own life experience\, the essay remains an ideal vehicle for satisfying the human urge to not just live year to year\, but to capture a bit of our relationship to the world. \n\n\n\nWhat is an essay? Just this: the personal essayist takes a topic—virtually any topic under the big yellow sun—and holds it up to the bright light\, turning it this way and that\, upside and down\, studying every perspective\, fault\, and reflection in an artful attempt to perceive something fresh and significant. But it is always an effort\, a trial\, an assay\, not a lecture or diatribe. In the hands of contemporary practitioners such as Rebecca Solnit and Roxane Gay\, the personal essay at its best is an idiosyncratic combination of the author’s discrete sensibilities and the endless possibilities of meaning and connection.  \n\n\n\nIn this 90-minute course\, noted essayist and editor Dinty W. Moore will guide you through examples of the myriad forms that an essay can take\, will survey the infinite range of possible topics\, and will leave you with useful prompts to help you determine your own essayistic opportunities. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the myriad ways the essay fits into both literary and commercial publishing\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how the flexibility of the personal essay form can help with “stuckness”\n\n\n\nRECONSIDER The role of research (and how it can be more fun than chore)\n\n\n\nLEARN how to find the best markets (literary magazines and beyond)\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who\n\n\n\n\nwant to expand their skills and opportunities\n\n\n\nare looking for new ideas and fresh topics\n\n\n\nwant to grasp the idea of “memoir-plus”\n\n\n\nfeel “stuck” writing their memoir\n\n\n\nwouldn’t mind getting paid every once in a while\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of our most popular and beloved presenters\, DINTY W. MOORE\, is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It\, and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer\, among other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, Short Reads\, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity\, the journal of flash nonfiction. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/pleasures-of-the-personal-essay/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Submit It to Win It: Literary Magazine Submission Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Stop crossing your fingers and randomly sending out your work. Instead\, learn to develop a strategy that’s fun and effective in getting your work published.\n\n\n\nFor all genres of literary writing: essays\, flash CNF\, micro-memoirs\, flash fiction\, short stories\, and poetry \n\n\n\nOur first submissions can feel overwhelming\, and the endless rounds of sending our work to literary magazines can feel discouraging\, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The process of publishing can be a fun and satisfying part of the writing life. During this live online class\, Bethany Jarmul will demystify the submissions process and offer practical steps you can take to develop and achieve your writing and submitting goals.  \n\n\n\nDuring the webinar\, we’ll explore eight different submission strategies and how to decide which one is right for you. Discover the pitfalls to avoid and learn tips and tricks to get the attention of editors and get your work published. You’ll leave this workshop with defined writing goals and a strategy for how to achieve them.  \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN how to set realistic writing goals and achieve those goals\n\n\n\nDISCOVER eight different submission strategies and how to choose the one that’s right for you\n\n\n\nLEARN common submission mistakes to avoid\n\n\n\nEXPLORE tips and tricks to get your work published in literary magazines\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\nare new to submitting their work for publication\n\n\n\nfeel like they’re guessing where to submit\n\n\n\nwork in any genre\, including essays\, flash CNF/fiction\, micro-memoirs\, short stories\, and poetry\n\n\n\nfear or feel bad about rejections\n\n\n\nwant to get more acceptances from literary magazines this year\n\n\n\nwant to set writing and publishing goals and get ready to achieve them\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer\, poet\, writing coach\, and workshop instructor. She’s the author of a poetry collection\, Lightning Is a Mother\, and a mini-memoir of flash nonfiction pieces\, Take Me Home. Her work has been published in more than 100 literary magazines\, including Brevity\, River Teeth\, and Chestnut Review. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature and Best Small Fictions\, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, The Best of the Net\, and Best Microfiction. Twice\, she earned first place in Women On Writing’s quarterly flash essay contest. Connect with her at bethanyjarmul.com or on social media: @BethanyJarmul. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Worldbuilding in Memoir: Creating Vivid Worlds that Captivate Your Readers
DESCRIPTION:For Memorists \n\n\n\n“Worldbuilding” calls to mind fictional settings—Hogwarts\, Gatsby’s mansion\, Alice’s Wonderland—but creating a vivid world on the page is just as essential in creative nonfiction.\n\n\n\nMemoirs offer the unique opportunity to inhabit the inner world of the writer\, accessing our deepest thoughts\, feelings\, and truths. Using hyper-specific detail and sensory images\, memoirists can pull readers in\, keep them engaged until the final sentence\, and make them care about our stories and characters.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will explore why worldbuilding—both exterior and interior—is important in memoir and provide practical tips for creating memorable worlds that captivate your readers. We’ll look at examples from published memoirs to uncover how evocative settings make us care about a writer’s experience. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE why worldbuilding is so important in memoir\n\n\n\nLEARN to apply worldbuilding techniques to your own memoir\, including the use of “telling details\,” specificity\, and the five senses\n\n\n\nADDRESS the practical challenges of worldbuilding in memoir\, including memory gaps\, which details to include vs. not include\, and more\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers…\n\n\n\n\nin the process of drafting a memoir\n\n\n\nrevising a memoir and feeling their text could be richer\n\n\n\nwho need help enhancing the “world” of their memoir\, both physical settings and the spaces of interiority\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nThis webinar was originally offered October 2024. \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatie Bannon’s teaching is encouraging and practical\, with step-by-step guidance and concrete tools. Writers who want to access deep creativity with a solid framework will love her classes!  \n\n\n\nKatie Bannon is a writer\, editor\, and educator whose work has appeared in The Rumpus\, ELLE Magazine\, NPR\, Newsweek\, Narratively\, and more. Her memoir manuscript\, which charts her journey as a compulsive hair puller\, was a finalist for the Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize. A graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator\, she holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Emerson College. She is a developmental editor who loves working with nonfiction writers to find the “story” behind the “situation” of their memoirs and essays. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two cats. Find Katie at www.katiebannon.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.comFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/worldbuilding-in-memoir/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Main Character Energy: Writing Resonant Characters
DESCRIPTION:For Nonfiction & Fiction (prose) \n\n\n\nBefore you can effectively bring characters to life on the page\, you must understand who they are and why they do what they do.\n\n\n\nYour characters are the lifeblood of your stories\, but writers sometimes overlook techniques that can make a character feel real on the page. Whether you’re inventing\, researching\, or remembering the characters you’re crafting\, this webinar will introduce you to methods for uncovering the motivations\, quirks\, and inner lives of the people populating your pages. \n\n\n\nIn this prompt-driven webinar\, you will explore proven techniques for writing memorable\, believable\, and indelible characters for both fiction and nonfiction prose. We will explore why your characters do what they do: their goals\, secrets\, and what screenwriters call the “ghost.” You’ll be able to apply these traits to your memoir or novel by showing unique behaviors\, speech patterns\, and physical traits that make us love (or not!) the people on your pages. \n\n\n\nThis generative (be ready to write!) webinar is a great fit for beginning and intermediate writers seeking practical\, effective techniques for adding depth to their character portrayals (including real-life characters). \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY your protagonist’s secret goals (and your antagonist’s too!)\n\n\n\nDISCOVER the quirks and behaviors that make your characters unique\n\n\n\nLEARN techniques for writing distinctive and realistic dialogue  \n\n\n\nDEVELOP a connection to your characters\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Handler is the author of the forthcoming novel The World to See. Her novel The Magnetic Girl was awarded the 2020 Southern Book Prize. She’s the author of Invisible Sisters\, one of the “25 Books All Georgians Should Read\,” and the craft guide Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss. Her nonfiction has appeared on NPR\, in Tin House\, Drunken Boat\, The Bitter Southerner\, Brevity\, Salvation South\, Five Points\, Image\, Creative Nonfiction\, Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, Oldster\, and elsewhere. www.jessicahandler.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.comBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/main-character-energy/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Essay as Activism: Bearing Witness Through Your Words
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to write essays that speak to larger societal issues and learn how your personal narrative can speak to the cultural moment? \n\n\n\nfor Creative Nonfiction \n\n\n\nPowerful\, of-the-moment creative nonfiction weaves our personal experience\, as both subjects and witnesses\, with larger issues to convey important themes and messages of social justice and advocacy. Our writing can speak against injustices occurring in the world around us and help question the status quo. But what skills do we need as writers to speak out on topics we are passionate about?  \n\n\n\nJoin Amy Shea\, author of Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins\, to explore the idea of the essay as activism. Learn craft techniques to combine your interior experience with wider themes to create effective messaging that readers will emotionally connect with. Develop your command of rhetoric\, structure\, and conveying meaning to lend a critical eye to the standards and norms held before us. \n\n\n\nWe will do close reading of some short examples from published essays\, reviewing not only how but also what the author is doing. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in some writing prompts and practice toward writing or revising their own culturally relevant essays. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nCLOSE READ examples to understand the choices authors make to convey meaning\n\n\n\nCONSIDER how to connect personal experience to collective importance\n\n\n\nPRACTICE using form and structure to explore larger themes\n\n\n\nEXPLORE different rhetorical devices/craft elements that can do the heavy lifting in meaning-making\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers …\n\n\n\n\nlooking to expand beyond the personal essay\n\n\n\nwho want to learn how craft elements create effective messaging\n\n\n\nwho want to use their craft for advocacy\n\n\n\nconsidering writing “memoir-plus\,” who want to know how to weave the personal with the universal \n\n\n\nwho want to explore more experimental styles of essay writing\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Shea is an essayist with an MFA and a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and is the author of Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review\, Portland Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, the Journal of Sociology of Health & Illness\, among others. She works as the writing program director for Mount Tamalpais College\, a free community college for the incarcerated people of San Quentin. Learn more about her work at https://amysshea.com. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/essay-as-activism/
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