BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Craft Talks - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://writingcraft.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Craft Talks REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T163000 DTSTAMP:20260730T144018Z CREATED:20260707T153643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T144018Z UID:10000135-1785942000-1785947400@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Worth 1000 Words: Writing the Image+Text Essay DESCRIPTION:Sometimes words aren’t enough. Discover how photos\, documents\, original artwork\, and other visual elements can deepen\, complicate\, and illuminate your creative nonfiction.\n\n\n\nFor creative nonfiction\, including hybrid & experimentalIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nFrom family photos\, maps\, and diagrams to drawings\, erasures\, and collages\, authors\, artists\, and publishers are finding new ways to present mixed media texts that combine words and visual elements. Whether you’ve already started using images or are curious about how images could enrich your writing process and practice\, this webinar is for you. \n\n\n\nFrom brainstorming and generating to the printed page\, images can add depth and nuance to your writing practice and finished drafts. We’ll look at striking examples of hybrid and mixed media essays\, and talk through not only the whys but also the hows—including technical and conceptual considerations (‘Do I need Photoshop?’ ‘What does ‘print ready’ mean?’ ‘Does it count as Fair Use if I only use a piece of someone else’s work?’ You’ll leave with inspiration and actionable ideas for your own visual + text essays. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN different uses for images in both brainstorming and writing essays\n\n\n\nGET an overview of practical considerations\, such as hardware and software\, publication readiness\, and permissions for images that aren’t your own\n\n\n\nBE INSPIRED by image+text prompts and a roundup of resources\n\n\n\nDISCOVER image + text work from a great reading list\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who… \n\n\n\n\nwant to explore hybrid writing\, collage\, or experimental essays\n\n\n\nenjoy hands-on brainstorming techniques (collage is great for that!)\n\n\n\nare already experimenting with images and want to learn how to get them published\n\n\n\nhave a visual art practice or passion they want to combine with their writing practice\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\nKnown for packing her webinars with deep knowledge\, actionable information\, and fun facts\, Chelsea Biondolillo is a collage artist and the author of The Skinned Bird: Essays and two prose chapbooks\, Ologies and #Lovesong.  \n\n\n\nHer essays have been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016\, The Lyric Essay as Resistance\, How We Talk to One Another: An Essay Daily Reader and is forthcoming in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay.  \n\n\n\nChelsea’s paper and mixed media collages have been shown in Oregon\, Washington\, and New York. Her image and text essay\, “Weeds” was the winner of CRAFT Literary’s inaugural hybrid writing contest. She has a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA from the University of Wyoming. She currently lives in Eugene\, Oregon. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) 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\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \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/worth-1000-words/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MASTER-Event-Templates-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T163000 DTSTAMP:20260723T141946Z CREATED:20260624T153352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T141946Z UID:10000131-1785337200-1785342600@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Nature Writing Reimagined: Cultivating Observation & Connection in Every Genre DESCRIPTION:Nature writing is often treated as a genre of its own\, but the natural world belongs in every story\, essay\, or poem. Move beyond viewing nature as a backdrop\, and weave it meaningfully into your writing.\n\n\n\nFor All GenresIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nDiscover what happens when we stop treating nature as scenery and begin to recognize it as an active presence in our narratives\, woven into every story we tell. Through a selection of historical and contemporary readings\, we’ll look at the many ways writers have engaged with the living world and consider how those approaches can enrich our own work. \n\n\n\nTogether\, we’ll explore the idea of de-othering nature and its implications for our writing\, from setting and imagery to metaphor\, character\, and point of view. Through lecture\, close reading\, and a generative writing exercise\, you’ll experiment with new ways of bringing the natural world onto the page—not simply as background\, but as a vital part of the work itself. \n\n\n\nWhether you write fiction\, nonfiction\, or poetry\, you’ll leave with practical techniques for creating more vivid and immersive landscapes\, a deeper awareness of the relationships between people and place\, and fresh inspiration for your creative practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how writers across time have represented the natural world\, from historical texts to contemporary voices reshaping the genre\n\n\n\nREIMAGINE nature’s role in your work and how de-othering the environment can transform your imagery\, figurative language\, and sense of place\n\n\n\nSTRENGTHEN your craft with tools for creating rich\, memorable landscapes \n\n\n\nINTEGRATE environmental awareness into your creative practices\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who… \n\n\n\n\nstruggle with settings and world-building\n\n\n\nwant to explore a new way of writing from a new point of view \n\n\n\nwrite about the natural world but don’t want to be pigeonholed as “nature writers”\n\n\n\nare garden-obsessed\, dirt-under-the-fingernails\, seed-catalog-collecting\, hiking-boot-wearing aficionados who wonder what else there is to write about\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\nA high-energy teacher noted for deep historical dives and technical side quests that always bring more understanding\, Megan Baxter has won numerous national awards\, including a Pushcart Prize. Her essay collection\, Twenty Square Feet of Skin\, was longlisted for the 2024 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.  \n\n\n\nMegan has published three books of creative nonfiction and is currently writing short stories and novels. Her short story collection ‘The Off-Season’ debuts in Spring 2027 from Jada Ibis Press. She lives in New Hampshire\, where she runs her own small farm and teaches creative writing through online courses and lessons. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) 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\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \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/nature-writing-reimagined/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/baxter.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T163000 DTSTAMP:20260717T010706Z CREATED:20260615T170009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T010706Z UID:10000130-1784818800-1784824200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Art of the Cinematic Close-Up: Crafting Details that Immerse Readers in Your Story DESCRIPTION:Learn to use your writerly “lens” to focus on the solitary details that open a narrative universe of fluid\, truthful\, and seamless prose.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction and Fiction WritersIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWriters of fiction and nonfiction alike understand: we can’t use ostentatious or flowery language\, nor vague or abstract moments\, if we want to truly grab our readers and immerse them in the world of our story. Learn how to focus your scenes with concrete details\, vivid imagery\, original language\, and apt metaphor that is scaled to the task at hand. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll use the metaphor of photography and cinema to focus our writing lenses on the art of the close-up—the particular\, singular\, and sustained. Looking at writers from Cheryl Strayed to Virginia Woolf\, J.R.R. Tolkien to Zadie Smith\, we’ll examine how to describe physical things and people\, places\, as well as discreet moments in time\, states of high emotion\, and interiority with rigor and specificity. From “close-ups” like a dying moth on a windowsill; the way a drunken father stumbles around the house; the moment you tossed your second hiking boot off the mountaintop; a feeling of foreboding partway through a quest; you’ll discover how to use language beautifully and truthfully to create what John Gardner called a “vivid and continuous” dream in the reader’s imagination.   \n\n\n\nYou’ll leave having written some new passages that you can use in any writing project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the craft of sustained\, vivid description\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how to manipulate your writerly lens of focus with intention\n\n\n\nLEARN the difference between the particular and specific vs. the vague and abstract\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing new passages using close-up techniques you can immediately apply to your own work\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who:\n\n\n\n\nfeel their work is flat or lacking depth\, focus or specificity\n\n\n\nare finding their writing voice\n\n\n\nstruggle with writing description\n\n\n\nwant to move beyond generic imagery and find the singular\, unexpected detail that brings a scene to life\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\nA sharp\, funny presenter\, Ethan Gilsdorf is a writer\, teacher\, performer\, and a huge nerd. The author of the award-winning memoir Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks\, his work appears in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Esquire\, Wired\, Salon\, O the Oprah Magazine\, Huffington Post\, Brevity\, Electric Literature\, Poetry\, and The Southern Review\, among other publications\, and has been named “Notable” by The Best American Essays.  \n\n\n\nEthan teaches workshops in essay\, creative nonfiction\, and memoir at GrubStreet in Boston\, where he leads the Essay Incubator program\, and at LitArts RI. He is also on the faculty of the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University. At Hampshire College\, he studied filmmaking and creative writing and received an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Louisiana State University. He presented the TEDx talk “Why Dungeons & Dragons is Good for You (In Real Life)” and offers workshops teaching adults\, children\, and organizations how to play Dungeons & Dragons. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) 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\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \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/art-of-the-cinematic/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Event-Templates-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T163000 DTSTAMP:20260707T154923Z CREATED:20260610T150205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260707T154923Z UID:10000129-1783522800-1783528200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Shake It Loose! Unexpected Prompts and Nudges to Spark “The Muse” DESCRIPTION:Inspiration is tied to innovation\, and innovation is a deliberate act.\n\n\n\nFor Nonfiction\, Memoir\, and Fiction WritersIncluded in the Season PassThis webinar will be entirely interactive\, with varied suggestions\, nudges\, and obstructions carefully designed to uncover fertile new directions for your work\, whether you are looking to start something new or trying to regain momentum in your current work-in-progress.\n\n\n\nWell-meaning folks often ask about our “inspiration\,” as if some external force—an angel\, a bluebird\, the Muse—mysteriously slips a brilliant idea into our brain as we sleep\, and all we need do is wake up and write it down. Easy peasy! \n\n\n\nBut it doesn’t work like that. Inspiration is tied to innovation\, and innovation is a deliberate act. We achieve success by being the ones who jump up from the rut of normal and predictable\, by walking bravely into an unexplored forest of fresh ideas and raw emotions\, and trusting we will find something worth writing about there. \n\n\n\nAnd how do we find these forests of artistic innovation? One of the surest ways is prompts and nudges\, as odd and varied as we can find. \n\n\n\nThis approach can work wonders. And by the way\, it’s also fun! Bring a pencil or two\, some paper\, your brain\, and a willingness to go in unexpected directions. Shake it up and let’s write! \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\nDISCOVER how to shake loose new ideas\, new angles and fresh perspectives\n\n\n\nLEARN the power of odd associations\, mixed signals\, curveballs\, and stretching the muscles of the imagination\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE prompts and nudges that work to open up neural pathways\, and lubricate the imagination (and memory)\n\n\n\nUNCOVER fertile new directions for your work\n\n\n\nSURPRISE YOURSELF with new writing in new directions\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who…\n\n\n\n\nworry that they keep writing the same thing or feel stuck in an established comfort zone\n\n\n\nare concerned that they have “run through” all of their good ideas\n\n\n\nfeel stuck on a current project (large or small)\n\n\n\nhave just finished a draft and desperately need a palate-cleanser\n\n\n\nare looking for fresh places to take future projects\n\n\n\nwant to have fun\, surprise themselves\, and take some chances\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\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/shake-it-loose/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Moore.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T163000 DTSTAMP:20260625T123305Z CREATED:20260603T164418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260625T123305Z UID:10000128-1782918000-1782923400@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Crafting Emotion & Imagination: Exploring Lyrical Writing DESCRIPTION:Learn the secrets to writing gorgeous\, lyrical work that makes editors and readers say\, “Wow!” \n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Fiction\, and PoetryIncluded in the upcoming Season Pass \n\n\n\nDo you want your writing to be beautiful and imaginative while staying true to the emotional moment? Would you like to improve the sound and musicality of your sentences? During this generative session\, we’ll dive deep into techniques and tools you can use to increase the lyricism of your writing\, regardless of genre.  \n\n\n\nFirst\, learn the difference between lyrical and narrative writing and when you may want to use one or the other. Then explore the five key elements of lyrical writing\, with examples from virtuoso writers\, and what makes each one powerful for readers. Finally\, practice applying lyrical techniques to your own writing with a prompt and writing time. You’ll leave with the start of a new draft and additional exercises to explore and develop your writing on your own. \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 the five key elements of lyrical writing\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the differences between lyrical and narrative writing\, and how (and why!) to use both\n\n\n\nPRACTICE suspending or manipulating time in your essays\, stories\, or poems\, along with other lyrical techniques\n\n\n\nDISCOVER strategies to increase the emotional and musical resonance of your writing at the sentence level\n\n\n\nUSE imaginative tools to add layers to your work\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for intermediate writers who want to…\n\n\n\n\nexplore lyrical writing \n\n\n\ndeepen and develop their writing voice\n\n\n\nincrease the musicality and beauty of their prose or poetry \n\n\n\ntap into higher levels of imagination and emotion in their writing\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\nBethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer\, poet\, writing coach\, and enthusiastic\, engaging\, and inspiring workshop instructor. She’s the author of a poetry collection\, Lightning Is a Mother\, and a memoir\, Take Me Home. Her work has been published in more than 100 literary magazines\, including Rattle\, Brevity\, and Chestnut Review. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature and Best Small Fictions and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. \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/crafting-emotion/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MASTER-Event-Templates-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260731T235959 DTSTAMP:20260720T143736Z CREATED:20250825T195635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260720T143736Z UID:10000055-1782864000-1785542399@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:REPLAY | Beyond Description: Creating Powerful\, Realistic Characters in Fiction and Memoir DESCRIPTION:The most powerful characters on the page are complex and multi-layered\, and they both surprise and convince readers with (and within!) their reality.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES: VIDEO\, SLIDES\, CHAT\, PROMPTS\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT \n\n\n\nFor Fiction and Memoir \n\n\n\nNovelists create characters from nothing\, who must feel as real as anyone we’ve met. Memoirists must pack a lifetime of knowledge into selected details to show readers the people they engaged with\, as those people truly are. But too often\, writers default to physical description—characters pausing in front of conveniently reflective surfaces—or narrating our own judgements of the people we know\, rather than allowing readers to make those discoveries themselves. As an actor\, playwright\, and director\, Allison K Williams has explored character creation inside and out. \n\n\n\nIn this special 2-hour webinar\, you’ll learn how to use tools from theatre to analyze your own text and create stronger characters on the page. With examples from fiction and memoir\, we’ll examine how objectives\, passions\, and foibles drive characters and deepen their dramatic impact; how qualities of movement are expressed in verbs and adverbs; the difference between high-context dialogue and “stuff I needed the reader to know so I made a character say it”; and even dive into how punctuation can shape a character’s emotion in a scene. \n\n\n\nYou’ll raise your craft level and gain a tool kit to help you present all your characters\, real or fictional\, as fully rounded beings\, regardless of their word count\, and make each one memorable and worthy of their time on the page. \n\n\n\nIn-class writing time and live editing will give you a chance to apply this to your writing right away. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a TWO-HOUR class\, with 20 minutes of writing time in the middle.\n\n\n\n\n45 minutes – Learn the tools of character analysis\, and key writing techniques to show character on the page\n\n\n\n10 minutes – Q&A to fully understand and apply the information.\n\n\n\n20 minutes – Revise a scene that introduces one of your key characters to heighten the character’s impact on the page and more skillfully show who they are\, what they want and why they matter. Allison will continue taking questions in the chat. \n\n\n\nOPTIONAL: volunteer for live-editing and upload your scene as a Word doc or docx to a Google Drive (link will be provided in class\, no pages will be accepted before they are called for).\n\n\n\n40 minutes – Allison will live-edit pages shared on screen\, noting where the writer is succeeding and what revisions could make the prose even more effective. During live edits\, she’ll call out specific techniques and tips for everyone to apply to their own work\, right away. \n\n\n\n10 minutes – Q&A and planning your writing from here.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar will cover\n\n\n\n\nHOW the interplay of passion and foible creates conflict and tension within and between characters\n\n\n\nThe “CHARACTER ZERO” of Commedia Dell’ Arte and how it relates to modern prose\n\n\n\nSHOWING villainous\, abusive\, narcissistic and harmful behavior in ways that allow the reader to judge—and why moments of “good” give evil more impact\n\n\n\nWORLDBUILDING through character action and dialogue\n\n\n\nWHEN\, HOW\, and WHY to use adverbs (hint: “in a _____ tone” is needlessly verbose! Bring on the adverbs!)\n\n\n\nThe ACTOR’S TECHNIQUE for bringing to life the most minor of characters—and how to use it in writing.\n\n\n\nOBJECTIVES and OBSTACLES\, and how they make characters active in every scene.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for\n\n\n\n\nNovelists with a large cast of characters who need distinction; or only a few characters who must hold the reader’s attention throughout the book\n\n\n\nMemoirists who want to write vivid characters without getting lost in their own emotional past experience\n\n\n\nCreative writing students and graduates of MFA programs who want to expand their writing craft with conscious practice.\n\n\n\nDevelopmental editors who want to grow their knowledge of characterization in prose and better communicate that knowledge to their author clients.\n\n\n\n“Plotters” struggling with bringing a character dossier to life on the page \n\n\n\n“Pantsers” who need to fill in background and personality without info-dumping\n\n\n\nWriters hearing feedback that their characters blend together\, or are too “black-and-white” and need more depth\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe live event happened in October 2025. \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams is the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro From Blank Page to Book. She has edited and coached writers to Big Five and literary/university publishing deals and the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. She’s guided essayists and humorists to publication in media including the New Yorker\, Time\, the Guardian\, the New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, Refinery29\, Hippocampus\, the Belladonna and TED Talks. As Social Media Editor for Brevity\, she inspires thousands of writers with weekly blogs on craft and the writing life. \n\n\n\nBefore turning to writing and editing fulltime\, Allison was a classically-trained actor. With a BA in Theatre and an MFA in Playwriting\, she has acted and directed with American Stage\, The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival\, Eckerd College\, Western Michigan University\, and many more. Her plays for young actors have been noted by Dramatics Magazine as top-ten most produced worldwide\, and her multi-character solo show TRUE STORY won Best of Fringe at the London Fringe Festival and toured the USA and Canada. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \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/beyond-description/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Event-Template-1-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T161500 DTSTAMP:20260618T124558Z CREATED:20260518T163624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260618T124558Z UID:10000125-1782313200-1782317700@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Poetry\, Prose\, or Both? Writing and Publishing a Hybrid Memoir DESCRIPTION:Crossing genres can be an obstacle—or a selling point. Explore the craft of writing and the art of pitching a memoir that wants both poetry and prose.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Poetry\, and Hybrid \n\n\n\nSometimes a moment demands the compression of a poem. Sometimes it needs room to breathe in prose. But what happens when your memoir wants both? In this webinar\, we’ll explore the craft of hybrid memoir—how to recognize when a piece is calling for verse versus essay\, how to let both forms coexist without flattening or repeating yourself\, and how each genre can do work the other can’t.We’ll also tackle the practical challenges of bringing hybrid and multi-genre work to publication: how to structure the manuscript\, how to describe it in a query\, how to find receptive publishers\, and how to talk about your book when it defies easy categorization.Drawing from Brenda’s experience writing and placing Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems (Skinner House Books\, April 2026)\, she’ll share both the creative and publishing lessons learned along the way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN to recognize when a moment\, image\, or memory wants to be a poem or an essay\n\n\n\nGAIN permission to try different forms and genres for the same material\n\n\n\nDISCOVER strategies for letting poetry and prose speak to each other without redundancy\n\n\n\nEXPLORE organizing principles for a hybrid manuscript\n\n\n\nPRACTICE language for describing multi-genre work to agents\, editors\, and readers\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY which presses are most open to unconventional memoir forms\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for…\n\n\n\n\nwriters who enjoy the freedom to explore more than one genre at once (and want to feel better about it!)\n\n\n\nanyone who has wondered: “Is this a poem or is this an essay?”—and suspected the answer might be “yes”\n\n\n\n writers working on a book that feels like “essays” and “memoir” and “maybe poetry” all at once\n\n\n\nanyone who has been told their manuscript is “hard to categorize” or “difficult to shelve”\n\n\n\nthose preparing to query or submit a multi-genre project and unsure how to describe it\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\nBrenda Miller is noted for making form “feel like a gift\, not a constraint” and teaches as “a wise friend who’s read everything and still gets excited about a well-placed line break.” Warm\, practical\, and full of “what ifs\,” Brenda’s sessions are full of the mutual joy of discovery.  \n\n\n\nBrenda Miller’s new hybrid collection\, Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems\, is just out from Skinner House Books (April 2026). She is the author of six additional essay collections\, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form\, andAn Earlier Life\, winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. She co-authored\, with Holly J. Hughes\, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World\, and\, with Suzanne Paola\, Tell It Slant: Creating\, Refining\, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction\, now in its third edition. She coined the term “Hermit Crab Essay.” Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com. \n\n\n\n \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/poetry-prose-or-both/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260617T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260617T160000 DTSTAMP:20260611T143020Z CREATED:20260518T161918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260611T143020Z UID:10000124-1781708400-1781712000@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Artful Intelligence: What the Rise of AI Can Teach Us about Great Writing DESCRIPTION:In all the hype and paranoia around AI\, it’s still our flawed\, funny\, and felt humanity that brings art into the world.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Nonfiction\, and Poetry \n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence can’t do what you can do because it doesn’t feel what you feel. Learn to harness those feelings to make original and unforgettable human art.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll explore AI via literature and writing\, with an overview of how chatbots produce “original” works\, trends in publishing and marketing related to the rise of AI\, and what artificial writing can teach us about our own\, human craft.  \n\n\n\nAs part of our investigation\, we’ll study technical aspects of AI to learn how it works and how to detect its usage. And we’ll examine how our own response to the emergence of AI can help us contend with the social\, moral\, and aesthetic challenges posed by advancements in technology.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will allay your fears over AI taking over the world—or at least taking over the writing world—and putting all of us creative writers out of business. No prior technical knowledge is required—only a passion for reading\, exploring how technology shapes storytelling\, and uncovering how human stories shape technology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND how so-called Artificial Intelligence actually writes\n\n\n\nEXPLORE what AI reveals about writing formulas and clichés to avoid in our own work\n\n\n\nLEARN how to write\, publish\, and stand out in a world beset by emerging technologies\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for beginning and intermediate writers who …\n\n\n\n\nworry about AI and its impacts on their own writing and prospects for publication\n\n\n\nseek to make their own work more original and attention-grabbing\n\n\n\nwant to recognize AI “in the wild” and understand its use as a tool\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\nJaswinder Bolina’s superpower is translating complicated ideas into conversational\, humorous sessions that students find transformational for their work. Noted for being analytical yet highly approachable\, Jaswinder’s most recent book English as a Second Language and Other Poems (2023) was awarded the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. He is author of three previous poetry collections\, The 44th of July (2019)\, Phantom Camera (2013)\, and Carrier Wave (2007)\, and of the essay collection Of Color (2020).  \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/artful-intelligence/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Event-Templates-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T163000 DTSTAMP:20260604T142919Z CREATED:20250508T193202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260604T142919Z UID:10000025-1781103600-1781109000@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Self-Publishing Foundations: Prepare\, Plan and Promote for Long-term Success DESCRIPTION:Savvy book marketers know that successful promotion starts long before publication.\n\n\n\nAll Genres \n\n\n\nSet yourself up for lasting success with key decisions to make and actions every self-publishing author should take before publication—steps that significantly impact how well your book will market once it’s out in the world. While these elements aren’t always labeled as “marketing\,” neglecting them can limit your book’s reach and longevity. \n\n\n\nWhat can you do when you’re not active on social media (and should you be)? When marketing\, where should you spend and where should you save? How can you connect with other authors as colleagues\, early readers\, and potential blurbs? Through David’s expert experience and case studies showing how people with limited free time put these principles to work to achieve their goals\, you’ll understand how to weave marketing strategy into the publishing process itself so your book launches stronger and stays marketable for the long haul. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN the “forever decisions”: the 9 things you cannot change without republishing your book.\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND the 5 types of comp titles research and how each contributes to a successful launch.\n\n\n\nDISCOVER why creating a distribution plan is the first and most important step in self-publishing.\n\n\n\nGET THE NITTY-GRITTY on how to coordinate print book pre-ordering using IngramSpark and Amazon KDP to meet deadlines\, make/save money\, and avoid publishing the wrong version of your book.\n\n\n\nLEARN the A-B-C list method for reaching testimonial writers\, influencers\, and readers/buyers.\n\n\n\nFORMULATE a review strategy: a framework for seeking and using editorial and customer reviews during book preparation.\n\n\n\nKNOW HOW TO LEVERAGE the strengths of self-publishing when it comes to distribution\, pricing\, media outreach\, and contacting influencers.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for Writers who…\n\n\n\n\nWonder if self-publishing is right for them\n\n\n\nNeed to know more about self-directed marketing\, even if they’re publishing traditionally\n\n\n\nWant to build connections with readers long before their book is released\n\n\n\nUnderstand better with detailed case studies of how other authors “did it”\n\n\n\nDon’t have vast sums of money for marketing\, or vast amounts of time to spend online\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nOriginally presented on June 3\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Wogahn is the author of six self-published books\, including the Countdown to Book Launch® series of publishing guides and the Before the Launch workbook. In 2012\, he became the author of the first LinkedIn Learning course on the topic of self-publishing (Lynda.com at the time).David is a frequent speaker and trainer and has given presentations for the Independent Book Publishers Association\, IBPA Publishing University\, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)\, the Independent Writers of Southern California\, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference\, and Jane Friedman\, among other publishing professional organizations.Before founding the author services firm AuthorImprints.com in 2011\, David worked for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and the Los Angeles Times\, and was co-founder and COO of the first online publisher of sports-team branded websites known today as the CBS College Sports Network. \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/self-publishing-foundations/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Event-Templates-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="David Wogahn":MAILTO:davidw@authorimprints.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260603T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260603T163000 DTSTAMP:20260529T030024Z CREATED:20260427T215933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T030024Z UID:10000122-1780498800-1780504200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Making Memoir Real: Captivate Your Readers with Dynamic Settings & Characters DESCRIPTION:Dropping our readers into a particular time\, a particular place\, populated by particular people\, is essential to making readers care about our stories. Learn to create vibrant\, convincing reality on the page.\n\n\n\nFor Memoirist and Essay Writers \n\n\n\nMemoir is a juggling act. As writers\, our job is to bring the potent emotional stakes of our story to the page right from the beginning\, introducing conflicts and launching the book’s dynamic journey. But equally important is establishing the story’s reality and dropping our readers into a particular time\, a particular place\, populated by particular people. This is how readers begin to care deeply and invest their hearts in our work. \n\n\n\nThis interactive webinar will closely examine the techniques of setting and characterization—often taught in fiction workshops—and how important they are to memoir. We will study the difference between mere “description” and active\, dynamic detail and movement. Prompts will be provided for new work and for work-in-progress. \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\nDISCOVER how to transplant readers directly into the world of your memoir through vivid\, specific detail\n\n\n\nLEARN the craft of characterization techniques borrowed from fiction and applied to true stories\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the difference between static description and dynamic\, active detail that propels your narrative forward\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing prompts designed to deepen both new work and works-in-progress\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how to establish emotional stakes early while simultaneously grounding readers in time\, place\, and character\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who…\n\n\n\n\nwould  like their work to immediately capture attention\, to engage agents\, editors and—most of all—readers\n\n\n\nstruggle with “Why would anyone care about my story?”\n\n\n\nworry their prose is moving too slowly\, that they may be “explaining too much” and showing too little\n\n\n\nare insecure about their storytelling skills (that’s all of us)!\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\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/making-memoir-real/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Moore.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T235959 DTSTAMP:20260604T144450Z CREATED:20260520T145148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260604T144450Z UID:10000126-1780272000-1782863999@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:REPLAY | Writing Through the Lens: Think Like a Photographer to Craft Compelling Scenes DESCRIPTION:Struggling with writing scenes or recreating lost memories? Thinking like a photographer can help.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES: VIDEO\, CHAT\, PROMPTS\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT \n\n\n\nNot included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nImages can be a remarkable tool for creative nonfiction writers. Photographers use vivid prose to describe their work\, and the techniques they use to create inspired\, memorable photos can have the same effect on your writing. \n\n\n\nAs memoirists\, we choose what events and moments belong in our work. Photographers make similar decisions when composing images\, and the elements that make a picture memorable and meaningful are often the result of choices that the casual observer doesn’t even realize the person behind the camera is making. Whether you’re writing a memoir or creative nonfiction\, photographs can be a powerful tool to help you not only tap into what is happening but also show the reader why these scenes are taking place. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will examine samples of memoir and essay that draw upon photographs to deepen scenes and characters\, and you will learn how to use these practical techniques in your own storytelling. \n\n\n\nRegistrants will receive a handout with prompts and actionable tips. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN to read photographs in order to better understand composition of scenes\n\n\n\nDRAW inspiration from two-dimensional images to “frame” your own scenes\n\n\n\nLEARN how to create compelling prose that draws your reader into your story \n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for creative nonfiction writers who are struggling to make old memories or family tales come to life.\n\n\n\nThe live event happened in November 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrace Hwang Lynch is a storyteller in journalism\, essays\, and photography. Her work can be found on outlets including Tin House\, Catapult\, and NPR. Her food memoir How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family will be published in early 2027 by Regalo Press. Website: www.gracehwanglynch.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \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/replay-writing-through-the-lens/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Hwang.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T161500 DTSTAMP:20260521T165455Z CREATED:20260409T161303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T165455Z UID:10000116-1779894000-1779898500@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Blurb Clinic: The 150 Words That Hook Agents\, Editors\, and Readers DESCRIPTION:Write your book’s “blurb”—the sharp\, versatile pitch for submissions\, promotion\, and marketing that defines what your book is and why it matters.\n\n\n\nAll Genres \n\n\n\nWhether you call it “jacket copy\,” an “extended pitch” or the meat of your query\, your book’s blurb is critical. This short piece of persuasive copy determines whether someone reads on\, requests the manuscript\, or buys the book. Just 150 words do a lot of heavy lifting: positioning your book in the market\, introducing your protagonist and stakes\, and making a promise that reading will be worth the commitment.  \n\n\n\nBut many writers get stuck with blurbs that sound generic or interchangeable with another author’s book. Shortcuts\, AI\, and borrowed language won’t sum up the heart of 100\,000 words. You have to step inside your book and ask what it is truly offering—and then stress-test whether or not your manuscript delivers on that promise. \n\n\n\nWhen I finally arrived at the right 150 words for my own memoir/reported nonfiction project\, everything fell into place. I received thoughtful\, encouraging passes instead of crickets\, and in a very short period of time\, two offers of publication. As I wrote and revised\, the blurb became a microcosm of my story’s logic and the reason someone would choose my book over anything else in front of them. \n\n\n\nAgents are looking for the blurb in your query letter (and will use it to sell your book to publishers). Editors are looking for the blurb in your book proposal. Marketers are looking for the blurb in your materials. And most importantly\, your readers are looking to be fulfilled by the blurb’s promise. They want to read your book; give them every chance to be excited. This session shows you how to make those 150 words count. \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\nDEFINE what a blurb is (and is not) and see how it functions across queries\, proposals\, websites\, and sales materials\n\n\n\nANALYZE real blurb examples to see how a clear\, compelling story or concept is expressed in 150 words\n\n\n\nSTRUCTURE a blurb for yourself that introduces the protagonist/author\, stakes\, and take-away (without summarizing the entire book!)\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY and AVOID common pitfalls that weaken blurbs\, including generic language and over-reliance on trends\n\n\n\nEVALUATE whether your blurb makes a promise your manuscript actually delivers on\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who are …\n\n\n\n\nnot getting responses from their query letters or book proposals\n\n\n\nplanning to self-publish and needing strong sales copy for online retail pages and author websites\n\n\n\nfinished with their manuscript and need to articulate what the book is about\n\n\n\nstruggling to describe their book clearly\, concisely\, and in a compelling way\n\n\n\ngetting stuck in the weeds of their book and need to refine the premise\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\nMichelle Cutler is an award-winning screenwriter\, storytelling coach\, and developmental editor specializing in true stories and memoir\, as well as an enthusiastic teacher. She has written more than 1\,700 advertising campaigns for global brands\, humanizing brand copy for short form content. She holds an MFA in film from NYU and a diploma in advanced creative writing nonfiction from Cambridge. She is currently writing I WON’T LET YOU DIE ALONE\, a reported memoir from the trenches of modern elder caregiving for Bloomsbury. \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/blurb-clinic/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Cutler.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260520T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260520T170000 DTSTAMP:20260514T160448Z CREATED:20260422T175949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T160448Z UID:10000120-1779289200-1779296400@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Mind the Gaps: Writing Less While Saying More DESCRIPTION:Beyond show-don’t-tell\, create powerful scenes through details\, images\, and juxtaposition.\n\n\n\nFor Fiction Writers\, Memoirists\, and Essayists \n\n\n\nOur strongest writing makes the reader feel with our characters/our narrator selves. But too often\, we over-write—spelling out emotions\, explaining through dialogue\, interrupting memoir scenes with reflection or novel scenes with backstory—so that readers are watching someone else have an experience. By paring down our prose to singular details and powerful images\, we give room for the reader to “lean in” to the story\, actively assemble information\, and share the discoveries\, realizations\, tears\, and laughter on the page. \n\n\n\nIn this interactive webinar (let’s call it a workshop!) we’ll prune text\, remove summaries to let details stand\, and use gestures and images to create meaning and feeling. We’ll examine how to “score” text by arranging it on the page\, making the visual processing of words and white space part of the reader’s experience. In published examples from fiction and memoir\, we’ll learn how juxtaposition\, high-context dialogue\, and purposeful repetition give emotional punch. And we’ll challenge ourselves to create endings without explanations that resonate in the reader’s mind long after they’ve closed the book. \n\n\n\nRaise your craft level and gain a tool kit. In-class writing time and live editing will give you a chance to apply this to your writing right away. \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\nThis is a TWO-HOUR class\, with 20 minutes of writing time in the middle. \n\n\n\n\n45 minutes – Learn a new tool kit of writing techniques to give fewer words more power.\n\n\n\n5 minutes – Q&A to fully understand and apply the techniques.\n\n\n\n20 minutes – Revise a scene from your novel\, memoir\, short story\, or essay using your new tools. Allison will continue taking questions in the chat. \n\n\n\nOPTIONAL: Volunteer for live editing and upload your revised scene as a Word doc or docx to a Google Drive (link will be provided IN CLASS; no pages accepted early).\n\n\n\n40 minutes – Allison will live-edit volunteer pages on screen\, noting where the writer is succeeding and what revisions could make the prose even more effective. She’ll call out specific techniques and tips for everyone to apply to their own work. \n\n\n\n10 minutes – additional Q&A and more on applying this work to your writing.\n\n\n\n\nIn this workshop you will: \n\n\n\n\nHEAR how the interplay of said and unsaid makes dialogue more powerful\n\n\n\nSEE how scoring text on the page establishes distance and attitude\, smooths transitions\, and increases dramatic tension\n\n\n\nDISCOVER ways to increase emotional power on the page through specific details\n\n\n\nAPPLY the tools and techniques to your own scene\, essay or story\n\n\n\nCREATE powerful emotional connection with deliberate craft choices\n\n\n\n\nThis Course is ideal for writers who are …\n\n\n\n\nNovelists who want readers to feel what the characters are feeling\n\n\n\nMemoirists and essayists who want to write powerful emotions without over-explaining their own feelings or over-using reflection.\n\n\n\nCreative writing students and graduates of MFA programs who want to expand their writing craft with conscious practice.\n\n\n\nDevelopmental editors who want to grow their knowledge of white space\, details\, and juxtaposition in prose and better communicate that knowledge to their author clients.\n\n\n\nWriters hearing feedback that they are “telling” or info-dumping on the page\n\n\n\nWriters struggling with realistic dialogue\, whether recreating a remembered scene or writing fiction.\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\nAllison K Williams is the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro From Blank Page to Book. She has edited and coached writers to Big Five and literary/university publishing deals and the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. She’s guided essayists and humorists to publication in media including the New Yorker\, Time\, the Guardian\, the New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, Refinery29\, Hippocampus\, the Belladonna and TED Talks. As Social Media Editor for Brevity\, she inspires thousands of writers with weekly blogs on craft and the writing life.As a memoirist\, essayist\, and travel journalist\, Allison has written craft\, culture and comedy for National Public Radio\, CBC-Canada\, the New York Times\, the Christian Science Monitor\, Creative Nonfiction\,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Kenyon Review Online\,Travelers’ Tales and Flash Nonfiction Funny. \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\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/mind-the-gaps/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Event-Template-1-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T163000 DTSTAMP:20260507T123213Z CREATED:20260412T152910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260507T123213Z UID:10000117-1778684400-1778689800@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Call and Response: Writing Beginnings and Endings in Essays DESCRIPTION:What tone to strike at the start? And how to shape an ending that responds? Learn how to make your essays move.\n\n\n\nFor Personal Essays \n\n\n\nEssays sing. Beginning sentences open the tune—and connect to the endings in how the song ends. An essay’s opening says something about what the writer wants to explore through different lenses or truths. The beginning can nail the “what\,” the essence of an essay’s quest\, through an image or inflection or voice or rhythm of language (“It was the best of times\, it was the worst of times”).  \n\n\n\nEssays move. Writers listen for a change—a mini-epiphany\, an angle through the mind’s eye that frames in a fresh way\, or a phrase like prayer in structure and sound. What might the last line say in response to the first? If beginnings and endings are siblings\, what is the connection that links them? How might the closing not just echo the opening but instead extend it\, go beyond what’s there? \n\n\n\nIn this practice-driven webinar (be ready to write)\, Jonathan Callard will guide you through possibilities in shaping strong openings and closings in essays and how they can work together to inspire movement and revelation in your work. \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 key elements of strong openings in essays and how to express them on the page.\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how closings can respond to openings to deepen a piece and ways to write strong closings.\n\n\n\nLEARN how beginnings and endings can work with a “what”—a tension/question—to create a transformative essay that pivots toward a change/shift\, a “then.”\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing your own openings and closings in real time\, guided by exercises designed to unlock movement and revelation in your essays.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who …\n\n\n\n\nfeel stuck on how to begin or end their pieces\n\n\n\nwant to play with structure of narrative or idea\n\n\n\nwant to hone their essays to engage agents\, editors\, and readers\n\n\n\nwant to understand how a central tension or question can guide an essay\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\nJonathan Callard is a writer\, editor\, and teacher who helps writers shape stories and find their voice. The winner of the Prairie Schooner Creative Nonfiction Contest judged by National Book Award honoree Sarah M. Broom\, his work has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, PublicSource\, Creative Nonfiction\, Hotel Amerika\, Gulf Coast\, Image\, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review\, Pittsburgh Magazine\, Arts & Letters\, and the Dallas Morning News\, among others\, and has earned fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. Having previously taught for the Creative Nonfiction Foundation\, he currently offers writer-mentoring services and also teaches for the University of Pittsburgh\, where he received an MFA in nonfiction writing. He lives in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. \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/call-and-response/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Callard.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T163553Z CREATED:20260409T154710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T163553Z UID:10000115-1778079600-1778083200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Art of Book Reviewing: Discovering Connection through Critique DESCRIPTION:In a crowded publishing marketplace\, professionally reviewing books is a way to network and build your byline.\n\n\n\nFocus: Creative Nonfiction though LARGELY THE PRINCIPLES APPLY ACROSS GENRES \n\n\n\nBook 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.  \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nIn 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. \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 do’s and don’ts of book review pitching and writing\n\n\n\nGAIN PERSPECTIVE on reviewing as a means of elevating your own writing and others’ \n\n\n\nDISCOVER how searching for comps in a book review helps find comps for your own manuscript\n\n\n\nLEARN how the practice of analysis and critique leads to stronger writing\n\n\n\nDISCOVER venues for your reviews and the expectations for different outlets\n\n\n\nLEARN how reviewing is a valuable networking tool in the creative nonfiction and independent publishing communities\n\n\n\nDECONSTRUCT a sample review structure\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers and readers of creative nonfiction who …\n\n\n\n\nhope to professionally network with others in the field\n\n\n\nseek practice pitching both critical and creative work\n\n\n\nare interested in book reviewing but not sure how to start\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\nBrooke 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. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n \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/the-art-of-book-reviewing/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Champagne.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260531T235959 DTSTAMP:20260427T220758Z CREATED:20260423T152437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T220758Z UID:10000119-1777593600-1780271999@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:REPLAY | The Magic of Micro Prose: Find Your Story in 300 Words or Less DESCRIPTION:Unlock your storytelling potential and share your words with captivating brevity.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES : VIDEO\, CHAT SCRIPT\, AUDIO FILE\, SLIDES\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT & MORE \n\n\n\nMicro prose—stories told in 300 words or less—provides an opportunity for more\, not less. Learn how this short but versatile form can amplify your creative nonfiction work (memoir and personal essay) and even poetry and fiction.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at examples of micro in the world\, how you can begin writing micro right away\, and submission opportunities as you ready your work for the world. Darien will share her methods for drafting and crafting micro prose\, and lead an in-class exercise so you can try it for yourself.  \n\n\n\nIf you’ve ever been curious about micro\, now’s a great time to add this powerful form to your writer’s toolbox. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN about micro prose and its storytelling superpowers\n\n\n\nEXPLORE micro prose possibilities for creative nonfiction\, fiction or poetry projects\n\n\n\nCONSIDER submission and publication options for your own micro prose work \n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who …\n\n\n\n\nwant to explore new ways to generate material\n\n\n\nare interested in learning more about short-form writing\n\n\n\nare ready to experiment with different ways of telling a story\n\n\n\nwant to publish short work as they write toward longer projects\n\n\n\nwant to deepen their literary craft\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\nDarien Hsu Gee is an international bestselling author published by Penguin Random House and the third Mark Twain Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut\, following Alexander Chee and Justin Torres. Her work spans genres\, from novels translated into eleven languages to award-winning micro prose and poetry collections. She is the executive editor of Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World (IPPY Silver Award) and the author of Allegiance (IPPY Bronze Award)\, Other Small Histories (Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship)\, and Writing the Hawaiʻi Memoir (Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award of Excellence). \n\n\n\nA recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant and a Vermont Studio Center fellowship\, Darien teaches creative nonfiction at UCLA Extension and Hugo House. She also leads specialized micro prose workshops through her platform\, Writer-ish\, and publishes two Substacks: Writer-ish\, focused on the art of micro prose\, and Drafts\, Deals & Detours\, a real-time look at the working writer’s life. \n\n\n\nHer service to the literary community includes board work with Short Reads and Flash Fiction Institute. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \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/replay-the-magic-of-micro/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Gee.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T163000 DTSTAMP:20260423T122433Z CREATED:20260325T182758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260423T122433Z UID:10000113-1777474800-1777480200@writingcraft.com 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/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MASTER-Event-Templates-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T144124Z CREATED:20260318T190143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T144124Z UID:10000112-1776870000-1776875400@writingcraft.com 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/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MASTER-Event-Templates-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T161500 DTSTAMP:20260409T120239Z CREATED:20260316T183133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T120239Z UID:10000111-1776265200-1776269700@writingcraft.com 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/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T161500 DTSTAMP:20260402T144357Z CREATED:20260311T150529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T144357Z UID:10000108-1775660400-1775664900@writingcraft.com 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 URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/submit-it-to-win-it/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MASTER-Event-Templates-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T163000 DTSTAMP:20260326T122320Z CREATED:20260311T144146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T122320Z UID:10000107-1775055600-1775061000@writingcraft.com 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/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Moore.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T163000 DTSTAMP:20260318T212146Z CREATED:20260220T200226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T212146Z UID:10000102-1774450800-1774456200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Tools for Querying Agents: Essential Materials\, Strategies\, and Resources DESCRIPTION:Traditional publishing is already competitive. Stop self-sabotaging and get your best work out there.\n\n\n\nFor Long-Form Narrative (Fiction and Memoir) \n\n\n\nIs traditional publishing your goal? One of the best ways to get there is by securing literary agent representation. Except\, after countless hours of writing and editing your book\, it’s daunting to research agents\, write a query\, and sum up your book in a quick pitch. But relax—it’s not out of reach. You just need some help. This webinar will help put your best foot forward before hitting SEND. \n\n\n\nLet’s get organized! In this info-packed session\, we’ll cover all the necessary materials: the query letter and its essential components\, the author bio\, elevator pitch\, synopsis\, and manuscript formatting. We’ll discuss the process\, submission guidelines\, and how to avoid common faux pas\, using both DO and DON’T examples.  \n\n\n\nAt the end of this webinar\, you’ll have everything you need—and zero excuses not to query! \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 the materials you need to pitch and query\n\n\n\nELIMINATE embarrassing rookie mistakes\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND the three essential components of a query letter \n\n\n\nFIND online tools to help with submission\n\n\n\nAPPRECIATE the accepted norms and rules\n\n\n\nINCORPORATE best practices in your querying\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is best for writers with a completed (or nearly complete) manuscript who\n\n\n\n\nwant the traditional publishing route\n\n\n\nare overwhelmed by the process\n\n\n\ndon’t know what they do and don’t need\n\n\n\ncould use some confidence OR \n\n\n\nare pretty sure they know what they’re doing\, but want a gut check before diving in\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\nKristin Owens\, PhD is an award-winning educator and writer living in sticky southwest Florida. She’s a contributor to Writer’s Digest\, 5280\, and Wine Enthusiast. Her debut novel\, ELIZABETH SAILS\, was shortlisted for the 2025 Gilda Prize and Killer Nashville’s Award for Best Cozy. With her background in university instruction\, she takes complex subjects and breaks them down into entertaining bite-sized pieces. Her buoyant\, high-energy presentations motivate writers to stick with it. She can usually be found (playing and working) onboard a cruise ship. \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/tools-for-querying/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MASTER-Event-Templates-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T161500 DTSTAMP:20260316T200226Z CREATED:20260211T205319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T200226Z UID:10000100-1773932400-1773936900@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Memoir Strategies: Transforming Life into a Story that Matters DESCRIPTION:A great memoir isn’t just about remembering your life—it’s about shaping your story for the page. \n\n\n\nFor Memoir Writers \n\n\n\nWhether you’re just starting your memoir\, stuck in the middle\, or looking to refine an existing draft\, in this webinar you’ll learn actionable strategies for crafting a narrative that captures readers from the very first sentence.  \n\n\n\nDiscover how to find your voice\, get tips for structuring your story for maximum impact\, and learn how—and when—to sidestep common mistakes that can weaken your memoir. By the end of the session\, you’ll have a toolkit of strategies to write with confidence\, precision\, and authenticity.  \n\n\n\nBeyond crafting an engaging narrative\, this webinar also addresses what makes a memoir publishable. Make your story stand out so you can grab an editor’s attention—and keep your reader reading. \n\n\n\nWrite a memoir that matters.  From refining your voice to avoiding common mistakes and capturing readers’ attention\, this course gives you the tools to move from memory to a polished\, publishable story. \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\nSHAPE lived experience into story by using narrative craft—scene\, structure\, tension\, and momentum\n\n\n\nDEVELOP a credible\, compelling voice that sounds like you on the page\, not a performance of yourself\n\n\n\nWORK with memory as material—accessing it\, questioning it\, and shaping it responsibly on the page\n\n\n\nDESIGN titles that carry weight—that suggest depth\, tension\, and literary authority without explaining too much\n\n\n\nHOOK readers fast with openings that signal stakes\, urgency\, and control\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY and avoid common memoir pitfalls—moves that signal inexperience and turn away readers\n\n\n\nTRANSFORM memory into narrative using the essential tools of memoir craft\n\n\n\nCLAIM and REFINE your voice so the work feels grounded\, intimate\, and intentional\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is perfect for…\n\n\n\n\nwriters new to memoir who want practical craft tools for shaping personal experience into publishable work\n\n\n\nfiction or poetry writers crossing into memoir who already have a strong voice but want guidance on memory\, structure\, and narrative control\n\n\n\nintermediate memoirists who have drafts in progress and need revision strategies that work\n\n\n\nwriters aiming for publication in literary magazines or with book-length ambitions\n\n\n\nauthors who want to understand what editors respond to—and what turns them off\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\nDr. Heather Sellers is the author of You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know\, a popular memoir about family and face blindness. An O Oprah Book-of-the-Month Club selection and Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review\, the award-winning book was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered\, Dick Gordon’s The Story\, and Dateline\, The Today Show\, and Good Morning America with George Stephanopolis. Her essays appear in The New York Times\, The Sun\, Reader’s Digest\, Good Housekeeping\, The Best American Essays\, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of four books on the craft of writing\, including The Practice of Creative Writing. \n\n\n\nHer fifth collection of poetry is coming out in June: Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators. \n\n\n\nHeather has been teaching for over 30 years. Currently she is a member of the MFA faculty at the University of South Florida\, where she won the university’s highest teaching award. She also offers in-person workshops and private lessons for writers at all levels. \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/memoir-strategies/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T163000 DTSTAMP:20260305T022411Z CREATED:20260202T200640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T022411Z UID:10000097-1773241200-1773246600@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | How Did We Get Here? Crafting Compelling Character Backstories DESCRIPTION:Strong characters reveal just enough backstory. How much should you reveal about a character’s history?\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Writers \n\n\n\nA character walks into the room…and brings an entire lifetime of baggage with them. How much do readers need to know? How should the writer decide what to include out of all we know about the character’s real or invented past? Often\, writers spend time writing extensive character backstory or family history that isn’t essential to the story\, but we’re so close to the material\, it’s difficult to narrow down the most important details\, those necessary to move the story forward. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, discover the key questions that unlock your character’s history—even if that’s you! —and learn how to use backstory strategically to power the plot and reveal information effectively to readers. We’ll take a look at prompts you can use to develop intentional backstory and learn methods of incorporating backstory into narrative\, including dialogue\, exposition\, and flashback. \n\n\n\nWhether you’re working on your first book or refining your approach to character\, this webinar will give you practical tools to make better decisions about backstory—so you can write with clarity and confidence. \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 the essential questions that unlock your character’s past and reveal what truly matters to your story\n\n\n\nDEVELOP a clear strategy for deciding which backstory details to include—and which to leave out\n\n\n\nLEARN effective methods for weaving history into your narrative without stalling plot momentum\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND how to use backstory strategically to drive plot forward and deepen reader connection\n\n\n\n\nThrough lecture\, prompts\, and discussion\, you’ll leave with practical tools for creating intentional characters whose histories enhance rather than overwhelm your story. \n\n\n\nThis webinar is perfect for you if you’re:\n\n\n\n\nplanning or drafting a new project and want to develop compelling character backstories from the start\n\n\n\nin the early stages of revision and realize your characters feel flat or their motivations unclear\n\n\n\nstruggling with how much backstory to include—unsure whether you’re revealing too much\, too little\, or at the wrong times\n\n\n\nspending too much time writing character history that never makes it into the actual story\n\n\n\nfeeling overwhelmed by everything you know about your character and need a strategy for deciding what matters\n\n\n\nwriting fiction or memoir where character depth and motivation are essential to the narrative\n\n\n\nan emerging or developing writer looking to strengthen your craft fundamentals around character development\n\n\n\nstuck in backstory dumps and want to learn how to weave history seamlessly into your narrative\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\nStephanie Dethlefs is a certified book coach and former teacher. She is the author of the middle grade novel Unspoken\, and her stories\, essays\, and articles can be found in Tahoma Literary Review\, Christian Science Monitor\, Literary Mama\, Flash Fiction Magazine\, diyMFA\, WOW-Women on Writing\, and more. Through her online community\, teaching\, and coaching\, Stephanie strives to help people with stories on their hearts get them onto the page with ease and self-compassion. She lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest. Find her on Substack at WritingFromTheGroundUp.Substack.com. \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/how-did-we-get-here/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MASTER-Event-Templates.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T163000 DTSTAMP:20260224T210707Z CREATED:20260124T211158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T210707Z UID:10000093-1772031600-1772037000@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Fallacy of One Voice: The Fractured Self in Memoir DESCRIPTION:Writers are often searching for their “voice” on the page. But in good writing\, especially in memoir\, writers balance multiple voices to tell their stories. \n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction and Memoir Writers \n\n\n\nAs a teacher of creative writing for the last 30 years\, I have found that the goal of most emerging writers is to “find their voice.” But why is this idea of “voice” phrased in the singular?  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will not only discuss the many voices within us but also talk about how the singular voice in contemporary American memoirs is a fallacy. That we live in a fractured place\, with a fractured history\, occupied by fractured citizens. But there is beauty in fractures. It is what memoir writers explore—the cracks and crevices of our lives.  \n\n\n\nDuring the webinar\, we will look at voice from many perspectives: 1) what voices get us to the page or prevent us from getting to the page; 2) how writers control voice in their writing—like Lidia Yuknavitch\, Kiese Laymon\, and Stephen Kuusisto; 3) analyze how multiple voices weave seamlessly through one another.  We explore our many fractured identities and how to put those identities on the page. \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\nANALYZE how other writers use multiple voices in their life writing\n\n\n\nINTERROGATE the myth of the singular voice in American memoir\n\n\n\nCONSIDER the relationship between fractured identity\, history\, and narrative voice.\n\n\n\nCREATE language rules for our voices\n\n\n\nREFLECT on which voices enable or obstruct a writer’s ability to tell the truth\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for intermediate and advanced writers who are…\n\n\n\n\nwriting a memoir or deeply interested in exploring life writing\n\n\n\ninterested in nontraditional memoirs\n\n\n\neager to deepen their understanding of voice in complex\, nontraditional 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\nIra Sukrungruang is the author of the forthcoming book\, Under and Up: Fatherhood and Fear in the Age of Distrust. He has published four nonfiction books:This Jade World\, Buddha’s Dog & Other Meditations\, Southside Buddhist\, and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist; the short story collection The Melting Season; and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night.  Ira is the recipient of the 2022 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in Nonfiction\, 2015 American Book Award\, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature\, an Arts and Letters Fellowship\, and the Anita Claire Scharf Award in Poetry. His work has appeared in many literary journals\, including The Rumpus\, American Poetry Review\, The Sun\, andCreative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection (sweetlit.com)\, and is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. \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/the-fallacy-of-one/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Sukrungraung.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T161500 DTSTAMP:20260211T222212Z CREATED:20260124T205537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T222212Z UID:10000092-1771426800-1771431300@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Point of View: Finding the Right Lens for Your Story DESCRIPTION:When you understand the purpose of your story\, you can choose the best perspective to bring it to life. \n\n\n\nFor All Writers \n\n\n\nWhether writing fiction\, memoir\, or poetry\, understanding point of view/POV is essential to clear\, compelling writing. One of the most complex craft tools available to writers\, point of view is frequently a source of frustration and confusion. Point of view in story is so much more than your 1st\, 2nd\, or 3rd-person pronoun choice. Point of view depends on a story’s purpose\, the perspective that a character (or narrator/author) inhabits\, and the emotional distance that the point of view has from both character and story. To top it off\, ‘point of view’ and ‘perspective’ also mean ‘opinion\,’ which is not at all what they mean in creative writing.  \n\n\n\nEven if you’re confident in your current point of view choice for your work-in-progress\, when you inevitably find yourself stuck in a scene\, an exercise in changing the point of view can reveal new aspects of the scene and subject\, creating deeper and more compelling stories and poems.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar balances craft instruction on the three primary points of view (and their subsets) with opportunities to practice playing with less familiar choices and distances to see how they impact your scene. \n\n\n\nBring a short scene you’re working on or stuck in if you’d like to use that for practice\, but that’s not required to participate in the exercises. \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 the three major point-of-view options and their subsets\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how psychic/emotional distance impacts point of view\n\n\n\nVIEW examples of a variety of point-of-view strategies\n\n\n\nDISCUSS the pros and cons of different point-of-view choices\n\n\n\nPRACTICE applying various point-of-view choices to a sample scene\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers…\n\n\n\n\nAre overwhelmed by the enormity of point of view\n\n\n\nAre curious about how point of view can deepen their writing\n\n\n\nWant to experiment with unfamiliar points of view\n\n\n\nConsistently use only one point of view in their work and want to broaden their tools\n\n\n\nFrequently receive feedback that they’ve “changed point of view” or are “head-hopping” and don’t know how to fix that\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\nLaraine Herring’s memoir\, A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens\, was released in 2021 from Regal House. She’s the editor of the anthology Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined through Speculative Nonfiction (Pact Press\, 2024)\, and a trilogy of writing books from Shambhala\, including Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice. She’s a retired professor of creative writing and psychology\, and has worked with writers for thirty years. She’s also an illustrator and a grief counselor\, and creator of The Grief Forest: a book about what we don’t talk about. She founded the online ‘zine Hags on Fire\, a place for women to share stories about menopause\, and co-designed The Imaginal Memoir Cave immersion program with Gayle Brandeis. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Tiferet\, The Rumpus\, The Manifest-Station\, and many more places. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology\, and lives in the mountains of northern Arizona with many cats. \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/point-of-view/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Event-Templates-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T163000 DTSTAMP:20260205T171503Z CREATED:20260114T183349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T171503Z UID:10000090-1770908400-1770913800@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Using Research in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction: How Facts Enhance Creative Work DESCRIPTION:“Sometimes it’s not enough simply to peer intently into your own soul. Sometimes you have to look out the window and see the world in all its complicated glory.” ~ Philip Gerard\, The Art of Creative Research: A Field Guide for Writers.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Writers \n\n\n\nFor many writers\, “research” got separated from our creative impulses sometime in high school. We associate sources and quotes with credibility rather than inspiration. We assume that poets\, essayists\, and novelists operate purely from their muse\, that it’s only imagination that produces art.  \n\n\n\nBut research is an important but often overlooked collaborator and powerful tool in the writing process. Even in this squishy age of “truthiness” and “fake news\,” writers can enhance their fictional narratives\, poetic images\, and personal stories with chosen facts\, carefully uncovered and discovered. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will examine how writers such as Anthony Doerr\, Sabrina Imbler\, Adam Hochschild\, Sandra Tsing Loh\, Hilary Mantel\, Robert Pinsky\, Sarah Vowell and Ellen Austin-Li use “creative research” in their work\, and to what effect. We’ll discuss the ways “fact” can help you reach your truth — whether you’re writing historical fiction about the 18th century or trying to accurately capture a hazy family memory — and how to make facts and data come alive on the page. \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at preparing a research plan for your own projects\, balancing research and writing time\, and how not to get lost in the research. We’ll also go over research and reporting tools and skills\, including interviewing\, fieldwork\, and using archives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER the many ways in which research can be used in creative writing\n\n\n\nLEARN about research methods and techniques\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how research can be applied to their own projects\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND how to integrate facts seamlessly into narrative without overwhelming voice\, scene\, or momentum\n\n\n\nDEVELOP a flexible research plan tailored to your genre\, project stage\, and writing goals\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who:\n\n\n\n\nwonder how to navigate fact versus fiction\n\n\n\nare curious about how to integrate research into their projects\n\n\n\nwant their work to feel grounded\, credible\, and vivid\n\n\n\nfeel intimidated by research but suspect it could strengthen their writing\n\n\n\nare working on projects that require accuracy without sacrificing imagination\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\nEthan Gilsdorf is a writer\, teacher\, performer\, and a huge nerd. He is the author of the award-winning memoir Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. His work appears in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Esquire\, Wired\, Salon\, O the Oprah Magazine\, Huffington Post\, Brevity\, Electric Literature\, Poetry\, and The Southern Review\, among other publications\, and is named “Notable” by The Best American Essays. Questions? 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/using-research-in-cnf-and-fiction/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Event-Templates-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T161500 DTSTAMP:20260129T151051Z CREATED:20260113T215702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T151051Z UID:10000089-1770217200-1770221700@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Fact\, Memory\, Imagination: Connecting the Dots to Uncover Meaning in Our Moments DESCRIPTION:You have the raw materials of a story or the start of an idea. But how can you turn information into artful narrative? By exploring the craft of the literary list\, you’ll find the moments of surprise and epiphany that turn bare facts into powerful art.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Fiction\, & Poetry \n\n\n\nUnexpected juxtapositions create meaning. Unusual sequences. Well-framed themes. In writers like Tracy K. Smith\, Sonya Huber\, Pablo Neruda\, and Christina Sharpe\, we discover—and can learn from—the power of deliberately chosen details and masterfully constructed themes. \n\n\n\nJust as a puzzle becomes a picture\, it’s the connections and the order of information that transform moments into a compelling narrative. In this webinar\, we’ll examine how Pablo Neruda’s poetry collection Odes to Common Things proves the power of the list as a starting place for a story and see how poems that begin as seemingly simple declarations evolve into compelling narratives.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll learn from the masters. We’ll practice artful list building. We’ll explore\, as well\, the child’s dot-to-dot puzzle and how its emphasis on dots\, lines\, and color can help us frame our works in progress.  \n\n\n\nPrepare to write briefly to prompts. Prepare to discover epiphanies. Prepare for a process that is not just fruitful but fun. Beth will close by sharing the process she used to write Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story\, which draws on fact\, memory\, and imagination—on dots\, and lines\, and color. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nENJOY the clever evolution of Neruda’s poems\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the power of lists in the making of stories\, prose and poems\n\n\n\nLEARN to convert stodgy facts into interesting scenes\n\n\n\nGAIN insights into the literary fulcrum and cascade (and what\, precisely\, those are)\n\n\n\nPURSUE the elevated ending in your own writing\n\n\n\nLEARN how Beth Kephart developed a constellation of dots to create the hybrid novel based on her family history\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who:\n\n\n\n\nhaving compiled or discovered facts\, wish to advance the story\n\n\n\nwishing to write intimate memoir\, poetry or fiction\n\n\n\nbegin with lists\, or writers who have eschewed them\n\n\n\nwishing to have more fun with the process\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\nNational Book Award finalist Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of some forty books in multiple genres\, an award-winning teacher\, a paper artist\, and the author of the popular Substack\, The Hush and the Howl. My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera was a finalist in the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award. Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story was a Silver Medalist in the North American Book Awards (historical fiction). “Conversations with Women in Blue” won the 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize from The Porch.Questions? 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/fact-memory-imagination/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MASTER-Event-Templates-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T161500 DTSTAMP:20260122T174048Z CREATED:20260104T192148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T174048Z UID:10000088-1769612400-1769616900@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Essays on the Writing Life: How to Write\, Publish\, and Get Noticed DESCRIPTION:Essays on writing craft and the writing life are a great opportunity for you to get noticed—and published.\n\n\n\nFor All Writers | Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nThis 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.  \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nAttendees 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.  \n\n\n\nYou’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 \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\nDISCOVER what writing about writing means and the impact these essays have\n\n\n\nFIND potential essay topics that mine your own writing experience \n\n\n\nEXPLORE key elements to writing an engaging and insightful essay about writing craft\, writing process and your writing life\n\n\n\nLEARN why and how writing about writing leads to publication\, builds platform\, and grows your writing community.\n\n\n\nRECEIVE a list of potential outlets to target with your essays\, along with specific examples\n\n\n\nLEARN how to develop and (when required) submit a pitch for your essay\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for emerging and experienced writers who…\n\n\n\n\nwant  to get published\, gain readers\, and get noticed\n\n\n\nhave a longer work published or in process who want to build their platform and create awareness for their project\n\n\n\nwant to engage with and create a literary community\n\n\n\nwant to write about their art and writing process to establish and share their expertise\n\n\n\nwant to support and spread the word about their work as teacher\, editor\, or publisher\n\n\n\nwant to provoke thought on a writing topic or raise a call to action\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\nAndrea 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!  \n\n\n\nAndrea 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. \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/essays-on-the-writing-life/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MASTER-Event-Templates-copy-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T163000 DTSTAMP:20260115T163053Z CREATED:20251219T170346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T163053Z UID:10000077-1769007600-1769013000@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Newsletter Better: The Art & Craft of Sharing Your Work with Others DESCRIPTION:Most newsletter advice focuses on platform choice\, schedules\, and metrics. This webinar starts with a more important question: why you want a newsletter at all—and how to build one that actually fits you.\n\n\n\nFor All Writers & Creatives | Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWe all want two things: 1) time and creative focus to write\, and 2) for the work we’ve poured ourselves into to land with the right reader and matter to them as much as it matters to us. One of the best ways to find and connect with those people is an email newsletter—but the process of making a newsletter can suck away our creative time. \n\n\n\nEmail newsletters are one of the most powerful\, versatile\, and human tools you have for finding readers and keeping them close. (We know this to be true because every build-your-author-platform article ever written since the dawn of the internet has said very clearly: YOU MUST HAVE AN EMAIL LIST.)  \n\n\n\nAnd yet\, you may not be sure how to begin\, what your newsletter should look like\, or why the emails you promised yourself (and your subscribers) you’d send every other week haven’t gone out in two years. It’s frustrating and confusing\, and most of the advice out there is an endless list of growth hacks and one-size-fits-all templates. None of which\, ironically\, actually fits you. \n\n\n\nThis 90-minute session invites you to see the newsletter not as a task to manage or a list to grow\, but as a durable creative practice that supports your writing life\, your career\, and your sense of connection over the long haul. We’ll explore why newsletters matter\, why they remain powerful even in a noisy digital landscape\, and how getting clear on your “why” makes every later decision—frequency\, format\, platform\, etc.—simpler and more sustainable. \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\nCLARIFY what a newsletter is actually for—and what it is not\n\n\n\nLEARN the major newsletter “shapes”\n\n\n\nEXPLORE real-world examples of successful newsletters across genres and approaches\n\n\n\nDISCOVER why newsletters outperform social media in trust\, engagement\, and longevity—and why “owning your assets” is crucial\n\n\n\nLEARN how to build audience on a believable\, sustainable timeline\n\n\n\nRETHINK newsletters as creative acts—extensions of your voice\, obsessions\, and service to your ideal readers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers and Creatives who…\n\n\n\n\nfeel overwhelmed or frustrated by conflicting advice about author platforms\n\n\n\nwant a newsletter that feels personal\, sustainable\, and human—not performative\n\n\n\nhave started (and stopped) a newsletter that felt like a chore rather than a choice\n\n\n\nknow they “should” have a newsletter but don’t know what they’d actually write … or why anyone would want to read it\n\n\n\nwant clarity and direction more than tactics and trends\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\nStephen Knezovich is a marketing strategist who works with writers\, artists\, and arts nonprofits. He is the co-founder of the literary magazine Short Reads\, the marketing director and co-founder of Ascender Book Services\, the marketing strategist for Off Assignment\, a collage artist\, and the curator of two email newsletters: Read This and Gluu. He lives in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, with his wife and two kids. \n\n\n\nStephen’s philosophy is simple: marketing should be creative\, personal\, human—and sustainable. \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/newsletter-better/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Event-Template-1-5.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR