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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Taste and See: Using Food So Readers Can Experience Your Stories
DESCRIPTION:A sensual medium\, food can serve as a metaphor to show\, not tell\, stories of belonging or exclusion\, joy or trauma\, passion or comfort. \n\n\n\nFor Food Writing\, Fiction and Creative NonfictionIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWho doesn’t love to eat? Culinary imagery is not just for food journalists or restaurant reviewers. Food is a metaphor and cultural touchstone\, and the flavors\, aromas\, and experiences of sharing meals can bring life to many other kinds of narratives\, bringing richness\, texture\, and sensory depth to scenes. \n\n\n\nIn this 90-minute webinar\, examine scenes of fiction and creative nonfiction that use descriptions of food in surprising ways. Then expand your toolkit by practicing using these techniques in your own storytelling. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nREAD fiction and creative nonfiction that use food in scenes\n\n\n\nEXAMINE what makes these examples resonate with readers\n\n\n\nTRY an exercise in unexpected ways to write about food\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how food can serve as metaphor to show\, not tell\, stories of belonging\, trauma\, and desire\n\n\n\nLEAVE with new techniques to bring sensory richness to your own narratives\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers…\n\n\n\n\nwrite fiction or creative nonfiction (essay or memoir)\n\n\n\nwant to learn food writing techniques that bring new sensory experiences to their stories\n\n\n\nwant to bridge food and literary writing\n\n\n\nare looking for fresh ways to use sensory detail \n\n\n\nare food lovers who want to bring their passion for eating and cooking to the page\n\n\n\nare writing about family\, memory\, identity\, or place and want a new entry point\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\nA conversational speaker whose love of food and writing shine through\, Grace Hwang Lynch is a journalist\, essayist\, and community builder with an eye for Asian American culture and food. Her work can be found on outlets including Tin House\, Catapult\, and NPR and her food memoir How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family is coming in January 2027. Follow her on Instagram @gracehwanglynch or at gracehwanglynch.com. \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\nInstructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/taste-and-see/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Getting Past "I": The Challenge of Writing in First-Person POV
DESCRIPTION:Writing a compelling first-person narrator in your novel or memoir is far more challenging than it seems. Learn to recognize and avoid the pitfalls of your Point of View.\n\n\n\nFor All GenresIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWriting in first-person seems easy at first. After all\, how hard can it be to get inside just one character’s head and stay there? But from a craft perspective\, writing in first-person is a potential minefield. Building an interesting and dynamic world full of believable characters can be a craft challenge when the reader only sees that world through one set of eyes.  \n\n\n\nCommon first-person pitfalls involve an over-reliance on telling rather than showing; not using inner dialogue strategically to build conflict and tension; and accidentally switching out of first-person\, which can confuse the reader.  \n\n\n\nYet the first-person perspective is an exciting opportunity to explore your protagonist’s deepest secrets—whether a fictional character or from your own perspective—and drives and develops a sympathetic bond with the reader as they get to know your character from the inside.  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll examine what can go wrong and explore great examples of first-person done well. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDETERMINE the right Point of View for your story and genre\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW first-person works differently from other POVs\n\n\n\nANALYZE examples of first-person pitfalls\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY hallmarks of great first-person POV writing\n\n\n\nEXPLORE practical techniques to vary your writing style within a single narrator\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers…\n\n\n\n\nwriting a novel\, memoir\, or personal essay in first person who want to strengthen their craft\n\n\n\nworried their narrator sounds flat\, limited\, or overly self-focused\n\n\n\nstruggling with showing rather than telling from a single perspective\n\n\n\nwho want to build a rich\, believable world through one character’s eyes\n\n\n\nunsure whether first-person is the right POV choice for their story\n\n\n\nwho find themselves accidentally slipping out of first person mid-scene\n\n\n\nwho need models of first-person done exceptionally well\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\nAmy L. Bernstein shares her passion for writing craft and her deep knowledge in info-packed presentations with clear examples and plenty of time for Q&A!  \n\n\n\nAmy writes award-winning fiction and nonfiction that lets readers feel while making them think. As the author of six novels\, including Tent City\, and a book of inspiration for creatives called Wrangling the Doubt Monster\, Amy brings a compassionate and insightful voice to writers’ conferences around the country. A former journalist\, Amy also works as a book coach\, helping nonfiction authors craft compelling book proposals. She welcomes followers to her weekly Substack\, Doubt Monster\, which explores the agony and ecstasy of creativity. \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\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | What Platform Is For: How Visibility Supports Your Work (Not the Other Way Around)
DESCRIPTION:A strong platform is a tool that helps you\, your book\, and your work reach the right people. Learn what true visibility makes possible so you can stop doing all the things and choose what moves you forward.\n\n\n\nNonfiction-focused\, but applicable across genres.Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWriters are told they need a platform but rarely know what it’s actually for. This leads to a lot of posting\, emailing\, pitching\, and “showing up” without a clear reason behind the effort. The result is noise\, scattered energy\, lost writing time\, and the nagging question: How’s this going to pay off? \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, Allison Lane reframes visibility as a tool that supports your book\, your work\, and your next opportunity. You’ll learn how platform works inside the publishing ecosystem\, why visibility needs a purpose\, and how to make clearer choices about where and how to show up. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDEFINE what visibility could make possible for you and your writing\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND what platform actually is in publishing and what it’s not\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the difference between useful visibility and scattered activity\n\n\n\nCHOOSE platform-building efforts that support your real goals\, capacity\, and next steps\n\n\n\nLEARN how to start from the end state before deciding where to show up\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is best for intermediate and advanced writers who…\n\n\n\n\nhave heard they need a platform but aren’t sure what it’s supposed to do\n\n\n\nare posting\, emailing\, pitching\, or showing up online\, but struggle to connect those efforts to their larger goal\n\n\n\nare preparing to query agents and publishers\n\n\n\nwant to launch their book or build awareness about an already-out-there book\n\n\n\nwant to make smarter choices about where to spend their time and energy\n\n\n\nare overwhelmed by social media\, newsletters\, podcasts\, speaking\, and all the other “platform” advice\n\n\n\nwant their visibility to support their book\, their work\, and their real life\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\nClear and energetic\, motivating and sincere\, Allison Lane gives accessible advice that truly moves the needle—and she’s funny! As a strategic publishing and visibility advisor\, Allison helps women turn their expertise\, perspective\, and hard-earned reputation into visible authority\, market-ready books\, and bigger opportunities.  \n\n\n\nAllison helps women clarify what they want to be known for\, develop book ideas that can stand up in the marketplace\, and build visibility that makes people find and trust them\, recommend them\, publish them\, book them\, and hire them. She also hosts The Author’s Edge\, the go-to marketing podcast for authors who want expert guidance on publishing\, platform building\, book marketing\, and long-term visibility. \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\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/what-platform-is-for/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Short Forms: Flash Fiction and Micro Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Create unforgettable stories in just one page—or less.\n\n\n\nFor Memoir\, Fiction\, and NonfictionIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nShort forms are the best training ground for learning how stories really work. Micro memoir and flash fiction sharpen every essential craft skill—precision\, structure\, and impact—in the smallest possible space. Their brevity invites experimentation\, but their simplicity can be deceptive: the most successful short works achieve the same depth\, resonance\, and emotional force of much longer pieces.  \n\n\n\nThrough close readings and craft analysis\, participants will examine a range of outstanding examples and discover the techniques that make short-form writing so delicious and so powerful. Explore how writers use compression\, implication\, and language to create memorable stories in remarkably small spaces and how they create narrative momentum\, develop character\, manage time\, and deliver satisfying endings.  \n\n\n\nWhether you’re writing micro memoir or flash fiction or want to apply these techniques to longer works\, this session will illuminate the craft principles that allow a few carefully chosen words to carry extraordinary weight. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY essential characteristics of successful micro memoirs and flash fiction\n\n\n\nEXAMINE how compression\, selection\, and omission create emotional and narrative power\n\n\n\nANALYZE exemplary short-form works to understand the craft decisions behind their impact\n\n\n\nEXPLORE strategies for building character\, tension\, and narrative movement in limited space\n\n\n\nLEARN how openings\, endings\, and structural turns function differently in compressed forms\n\n\n\nGAIN a deeper understanding of how short forms can serve as your training ground\, sharpen your prose\, and strengthen larger writing projects\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is best for writers at all levels who…\n\n\n\n\nare actively drafting or revising work for workshop\, submission\, or publication\n\n\n\nwant greater control over structure\, voice\, and narrative impact at the sentence and scene level\n\n\n\nare curious about—or already working in—compressed forms\n\n\n\nfeel their stories are too diffuse or overextended and want strategies for tightening and intensifying\n\n\n\nwant to understand how accomplished short-form writers achieve depth\, resonance\, and emotional force \n\n\n\nwant to study storytelling at its most distilled and precise\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\nDr. Heather Sellers has been teaching for over thirty years\, and she doesn’t teach like anyone else. Her classes are innovative and groundbreaking\, and students describe them as fun\, lively\, and warm—the kind of workshop where you laugh out loud and walk away having learned an enormous amount.  \n\n\n\nShe is the author of You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know\, a popular memoir about family and face blindness. An 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\, Dateline\, The Today Show\, and Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos. 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\, Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators\, is just out from Lynx House Press. 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\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\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/short-forms/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Poetry-Curious? Exploring the Craft of Prose Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Spark your creativity\, level up your sentences\, and strengthen your voice by exploring the art and craft of prose poetry. \n\n\n\nFor Poetry and Prose Writers Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nExperiment\, expand your sentence-craft\, and have fun generating new work with prose poetry. As a hybrid form that sits between standard prose (like stories or essays) and poetry\, prose poems are a fascinating and enjoyable form for writers in all genres. Prose poems combine both the narrative and lyric impulses. They use standard sentences and paragraphs instead of traditional line breaks and stanzas\, yet they rely on poetic tools like metaphor and alliteration.  \n\n\n\nFor prose writers\, this form is a great entry way into exploring poetry. For poets\, it’s an exercise in learning to work without line breaks. For all writers\, it’s a great way to play with form and expand your creativity—while creating short work ready to revise and publish. \n\n\n\nDuring this generative online class\, explore what a prose poem is and what it isn’t\, the different types of prose poems\, and what makes a great prose poem. We’ll analyze examples and write drafts based on thought-provoking prompts. You’ll leave this workshop with a new appreciation for prose poems\, fuel for your writing inspiration\, and at least one new draft of your own. \n\n\n\nCome ready to write! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN what a prose poem is (not just a lyrical paragraph!) \n\n\n\nDISCOVER the five key considerations of a prose poem \n\n\n\nEXPLORE common types and styles of prose poems\n\n\n\nLEARN tips for writing engaging prose poems that lit mag editors and readers will love\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for…\n\n\n\n\nwriters new to prose poetry\, with some experience in other forms\n\n\n\npoets who want to try the prose poem form\n\n\n\nnonfiction or fiction writers who want to explore writing poetry\n\n\n\nwriters who want to tap into and maximize their creativity\n\n\n\nwriters who love to learn through experimenting creatively and trying new things\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\n \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\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/poetry-curious/
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