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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/
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | 1\,000 Words in 3 Hours: “Writing the Heat” to Generate High-Stakes Material\, Faster
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to follow the energy in your memoir to generate powerful\, high-stakes material that bypasses your inner critic and gets to emotional truth.\n\n\n\nFor Memoirist \n\n\n\nWhen we try to write methodically\, we shut down the part of us that’s in flow. Planning every scene and forcing ourselves to be logical and linear blocks our creative energy. We produce stale\, predictable pages that feel dull to write and even duller to read. Meanwhile\, our inner critic gets louder\, our perfectionism takes over\, and we avoid the vulnerable places we need to go to make personal narrative work. Your subconscious knows what you need to write better than your logical mind does—but how can you access that energy on demand?  \n\n\n\nThe “Write the Heat” method is an intuition-driven practice that helps you follow currents of energy rather than a premeditated sequence. By writing toward what feels tense\, interesting\, or unresolved (the moments that carry “heat”)\, we trick ourselves into saying the truest thing. We generate material that’s raw\, compelling\, and emotionally honest. With “Writing the Heat\,” you’ll write faster\, with more confidence\, and stumble upon insights you never would have found through careful planning.In this seminar\, you’ll learn the foundational technique of Katie’s proven “Write the Heat” process and practice it through guided prompts. Discover how to silence your inner critic\, follow your gut instinct\, and generate high-stakes material that captures what your story is really about. You’ll take away concrete methods to produce more—and truer—pages every time you sit down to write. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this interactive three-hour live seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how to identify “heat” in your story—the most tense\, interesting\, or emotionally charged moments\n\n\n\nLEARN “heat mapping” and timed freewriting techniques to bypass your inner critic and generate high-stakes material quickly\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing toward what feels alive rather than what you think you “should” write\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND how following energy and intuition leads to truer\, higher-stakes storytelling than logical planning\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE the relief of making “writing badly” the goal and lowering the stakes on your writing process\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for…\n\n\n\n\nwhose perfectionism and inner critic stop them from getting words on the page\n\n\n\nwho know they need to “go there” but aren’t sure how to start\n\n\n\nwhose writing feels stale\, predictable\, or emotionally distant\n\n\n\nwho want to access the vulnerable\, high-stakes material their stories require\n\n\n\nwho feel blocked when they try to write in a linear\, methodical way and need permission to follow their intuition\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the event. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\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\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Katie is the best writing instructor I have ever had. Her presentation was impeccable. She provided an abundance of ideas\, details\, examples\, and information. In fact\, the class was overflowing with information. I have nothing but praise for Katie and the class content.”“Katie was an amazing instructor. She explained core concepts with clarity and ease\, provided excellent examples and writing samples\, and created a very supportive learning environment. The class truly exceeded my expectations!” \n\n\n\n“Holy moly\, this was a superb class. Instructor was well-prepared with lots of valuable and well-organized information and ideas. I have already begun applying some of the tools from class to revise—and what a difference it’s making!” \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\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\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/seminar-1000-words/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Essay as Activism: Bearing Witness Through Your Words
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to write essays that speak to larger societal issues and learn how your personal narrative can speak to the cultural moment? \n\n\n\nfor Creative Nonfiction \n\n\n\nPowerful\, of-the-moment creative nonfiction weaves our personal experience\, as both subjects and witnesses\, with larger issues to convey important themes and messages of social justice and advocacy. Our writing can speak against injustices occurring in the world around us and help question the status quo. But what skills do we need as writers to speak out on topics we are passionate about?  \n\n\n\nJoin Amy Shea\, author of Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins\, to explore the idea of the essay as activism. Learn craft techniques to combine your interior experience with wider themes to create effective messaging that readers will emotionally connect with. Develop your command of rhetoric\, structure\, and conveying meaning to lend a critical eye to the standards and norms held before us. \n\n\n\nWe will do close reading of some short examples from published essays\, reviewing not only how but also what the author is doing. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in some writing prompts and practice toward writing or revising their own culturally relevant essays. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nCLOSE READ examples to understand the choices authors make to convey meaning\n\n\n\nCONSIDER how to connect personal experience to collective importance\n\n\n\nPRACTICE using form and structure to explore larger themes\n\n\n\nEXPLORE different rhetorical devices/craft elements that can do the heavy lifting in meaning-making\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers …\n\n\n\n\nlooking to expand beyond the personal essay\n\n\n\nwho want to learn how craft elements create effective messaging\n\n\n\nwho want to use their craft for advocacy\n\n\n\nconsidering writing “memoir-plus\,” who want to know how to weave the personal with the universal \n\n\n\nwho want to explore more experimental styles of essay writing\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Shea is an essayist with an MFA and a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and is the author of Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review\, Portland Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, the Journal of Sociology of Health & Illness\, among others. She works as the writing program director for Mount Tamalpais College\, a free community college for the incarcerated people of San Quentin. Learn more about her work at https://amysshea.com. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/essay-as-activism/
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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | All about the HUSTLE: Marketing Your Own Book
DESCRIPTION:Authors are marketing in new and surprisingly successful ways.\n\n\n\nWhat’s the best way to sell YOUR book?  \n\n\n\nMore than ever\, authors are doing the lion’s share of marketing–even when traditionally published. But gone are the days of religiously posting to socials and desperately hunting for Goodreads reviews. Our guests have mixed new practices and unique publicity hooks to get their books in front of the readers who need them.   \n\n\n\nAndromeda Romano-Lax\, Jo Piazza and Stephanie Weaver will tell us how their marketing plans have changed in 2026\, the ways they’re bringing their words to the world\, and the surprising tactics they never thought would work! Find out the best new book marketing tricks of the trade\, and what you already know that’s still working. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY April 28th at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guests: \n\n\n\nAndromeda Romano-Lax’s first novel\, The Spanish Bow\, was translated into eleven languages and her next novels– The Detour\, Behave\, Plum Rains and Annie and the Wolves have been Indie Next and Amazon Books of the month; one has been optioned for TV/film. With 2024’s The Deepest Lake (a Barnes & Noble Monthly Pick) and her 2026 novel\, What Boys Learn\, Andromeda has swerved into the world of suspense fiction\, although she continues to write historical fiction\, too. Her next novel\, coming in 2027\, is a speculative retelling of Sylvia Plath’s life. \n\n\n\nJo Piazza is the national and international bestselling author of The Sicilian Inheritance\, Everyone is Lying to You\, We Are Not Like Them\, You Were Always Mine\, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win\, The Knockoff and How to Be Married. Her work has been published in ten languages in twelve countries and four of her books have been optioned for film and television.  Jo’s podcasts have garnered more than twenty-five million downloads and regularly top podcast charts. An editor\, columnist and travel writer\, her work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the New York Times\, New York magazine\, Marie Claire\, Glamour and many other publications. Her next book\, The Parisian Heist\, comes out in July\, 2025.  \n\n\n\nStephanie Weaver is a TEDx speaker coach and chronic illness advocate who distills complex human experiences into accessible\, compelling narratives. Her fifth book\, Bitter\, Sweet: How to Heal Yourself When Your Family Is Broken is a heartfelt exploration of healing from childhood sexual abuse. Weaver’s personal journey as an abuse survivor who reconciled with her parents after years of estrangement informs her work\, inspiring others to rewrite their own narratives and transform pain into purpose. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guests for this lively\, funny hour of frank talk about publishing\, platform\, and always following your mission. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book\, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/the-writers-bridge-hustle/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Scene vs. Summary: When to Show\, When to Tell\, and How
DESCRIPTION:What to include\, what to show\, and what to summarize? This class teaches you exactly when to show\, when to tell\, and how to make every moment count.\n\n\n\nFor Fiction and Memoir \n\n\n\nStruggling to know when to slow your story down—or when to speed it up? Unsure what belongs and what to leave out? We’ll dive into your two core storytelling tools—scene and summary—and explore how they work together to make your writing rich\, compelling\, and memorable. You’ll learn how to use scene intentionally to shape pacing and flow\, and discover the four types of summary\, with best practices for placement and timing. By the end of the workshop\, you’ll know how to deploy these techniques in concert\, crafting sequences that keep readers hooked from start to finish. \n\n\n\nThis seminar gives you clear\, practical strategies for deciding exactly when to show\, when to tell\, and how to make every moment count. Whether you’re polishing a memoir\, starting a novel\, or shaping any narrative\, you’ll leave with actionable strategies to create stories built from scenes and summaries that truly rivet readers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this insightful three-hour live seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nMASTER pacing to control the speed and rhythm of your story\n\n\n\nWEAVE scenes and summaries seamlessly for maximum impact\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY AND USE the four types of summary effectively\n\n\n\nBREAK DOWN the parts of a scene to understand what makes it work\n\n\n\nDEEPEN your story and increase emotional resonance with pacing\n\n\n\nCONSTRUCT strong\, compelling scenes that draw readers in\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for…\n\n\n\n\nwriters who want to turn various scenes into a story that clicks\n\n\n\nmemoirists struggling to condense life into compelling moments\n\n\n\nnovelists who know their plot but need sharper scene structure\n\n\n\nstorytellers who want readers to fall deeply into the story\n\n\n\nanyone tired of “too much info” and craving clarity and impact\n\n\n\nnew writers looking to master the art of what to leave in—and what to cut\n\n\n\nexperienced writers who want their stories to land emotionally \n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the event. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\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\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“This was one of the most substantive classes I’ve taken. The craft insights were deep\, but everything was presented in a clear\, usable structure that made revision feel possible instead of overwhelming.” – Anon \n\n\n\n“I loved how rigorous the content was without ever feeling dry. The pacing\, humor\, and energy kept me completely engaged—and I left with concrete tools I used immediately.” – Grace L\, New York \n\n\n\n“What stood out most was how intentional the teaching was.” –Kate S\, NJ \n\n\n\n“I expected inspiration\, but I didn’t expect this level of craft depth. The class was smart\, funny\, and incredibly well organized.” – Constance\, Holland\, MI \n\n\n\n“You can feel how much thought has gone into the structure of the presentation. Nothing felt random—everything connected\, and Heather is so personable and smart and fun.” – BethAnn\, Tampa\, FL \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\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\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/seminar-scene-vs-summary/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Main Character Energy: Writing Resonant Characters
DESCRIPTION:For Nonfiction & Fiction (prose) \n\n\n\nBefore you can effectively bring characters to life on the page\, you must understand who they are and why they do what they do.\n\n\n\nYour characters are the lifeblood of your stories\, but writers sometimes overlook techniques that can make a character feel real on the page. Whether you’re inventing\, researching\, or remembering the characters you’re crafting\, this webinar will introduce you to methods for uncovering the motivations\, quirks\, and inner lives of the people populating your pages. \n\n\n\nIn this prompt-driven webinar\, you will explore proven techniques for writing memorable\, believable\, and indelible characters for both fiction and nonfiction prose. We will explore why your characters do what they do: their goals\, secrets\, and what screenwriters call the “ghost.” You’ll be able to apply these traits to your memoir or novel by showing unique behaviors\, speech patterns\, and physical traits that make us love (or not!) the people on your pages. \n\n\n\nThis generative (be ready to write!) webinar is a great fit for beginning and intermediate writers seeking practical\, effective techniques for adding depth to their character portrayals (including real-life characters). \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY your protagonist’s secret goals (and your antagonist’s too!)\n\n\n\nDISCOVER the quirks and behaviors that make your characters unique\n\n\n\nLEARN techniques for writing distinctive and realistic dialogue  \n\n\n\nDEVELOP a connection to your characters\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Handler is the author of the forthcoming novel The World to See. Her novel The Magnetic Girl was awarded the 2020 Southern Book Prize. She’s the author of Invisible Sisters\, one of the “25 Books All Georgians Should Read\,” and the craft guide Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss. Her nonfiction has appeared on NPR\, in Tin House\, Drunken Boat\, The Bitter Southerner\, Brevity\, Salvation South\, Five Points\, Image\, Creative Nonfiction\, Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, Oldster\, and elsewhere. www.jessicahandler.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.comBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/main-character-energy/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | LIVE ONLY Pitch & Platform with Literary Agent Jessica Berg & Allison K Williams
DESCRIPTION:Learn to deliver the pitch that will sell your book–and how to build the platform you need to support that pitch. \n\n\n\nBONUS Writers Bridge episode Tuesday April 21st from 1-2PM Eastern. LIVE ONLY NO RECORDING NO REPLAYS. \n\n\n\nGetting your book to the shelves means talking about it–clearly\, concisely\, and in a way that builds excitement and anticipation. And talking about your platform is part of that pitch.  \n\n\n\nPractice pitching YOUR book to Literary Agent Jessica Berg and editor Allison K Williams. We’ll give you frank\, useful feedback about your pitch–is it selling your book\, and why or why not?  \n\n\n\nThen\, dive deeper. Tell us your platform (or the one you’re thinking about building) and we’ll share our best tips and tools to find your audience and reach them. And if you don’t know yet? We’ll brainstorm it with you\, right now.  \n\n\n\nAll live attendees will receive a follow-up email with recommended tools and highlights from the session. \n\n\n\nLiterary Agent Jessica Berg has heard thousands of pitches\, and helped the authors she represents shape their platform and refine their pitch to attract publishing deals\, plan their marketing\, and ultimately reach readers.  \n\n\n\nCohost Allison K Williams has shepherded writers through live and virtual pitch events\, and helped them get comfortable talking about themselves and their books with top agents in New York and London. She’s pitched a fair few books herself and learned some surprising new elements of her own platform for 2026. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin us live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Hosts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Berg is a literary agent\, author\, and the founder of Rosecliff Literary. She loves stories that explore grief\, longing\, ambition\, and survival and the complicated ways they intersect.  \n\n\n\nShe earned her MFA from Spalding University and contributes regularly to Writer’s Digest. Jessica serves on the boards of the Women’s National Book Association and the Historical Novel Society\, and teaches nationally on querying\, comp titles\, and the business of authorship\, with a focus on building sustainable\, long-term writing careers. Her client list includes Vincent Zandri\, Lisa Roe\, Arizona Bell\, and others.. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. She’s the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, and an expert in author marketing and community building. Her own writing has also appeared in the New York Times\, Travelers’ Tales and Writers Digest and her performed stories on The Moth\, NPR and CBC-Canada. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded WRITERS BRIDGE sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔ \n\n\n\nQuestions? 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/the-writers-bridge-live-only-pitch-platform-with-literary-agent-jessica-berg-allison-k-williams-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Worldbuilding in Memoir: Creating Vivid Worlds that Captivate Your Readers
DESCRIPTION:For Memorists \n\n\n\n“Worldbuilding” calls to mind fictional settings—Hogwarts\, Gatsby’s mansion\, Alice’s Wonderland—but creating a vivid world on the page is just as essential in creative nonfiction.\n\n\n\nMemoirs offer the unique opportunity to inhabit the inner world of the writer\, accessing our deepest thoughts\, feelings\, and truths. Using hyper-specific detail and sensory images\, memoirists can pull readers in\, keep them engaged until the final sentence\, and make them care about our stories and characters.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will explore why worldbuilding—both exterior and interior—is important in memoir and provide practical tips for creating memorable worlds that captivate your readers. We’ll look at examples from published memoirs to uncover how evocative settings make us care about a writer’s experience. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE why worldbuilding is so important in memoir\n\n\n\nLEARN to apply worldbuilding techniques to your own memoir\, including the use of “telling details\,” specificity\, and the five senses\n\n\n\nADDRESS the practical challenges of worldbuilding in memoir\, including memory gaps\, which details to include vs. not include\, and more\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers…\n\n\n\n\nin the process of drafting a memoir\n\n\n\nrevising a memoir and feeling their text could be richer\n\n\n\nwho need help enhancing the “world” of their memoir\, both physical settings and the spaces of interiority\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nThis webinar was originally offered October 2024. \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatie Bannon’s teaching is encouraging and practical\, with step-by-step guidance and concrete tools. Writers who want to access deep creativity with a solid framework will love her classes!  \n\n\n\nKatie Bannon is a writer\, editor\, and educator whose work has appeared in The Rumpus\, ELLE Magazine\, NPR\, Newsweek\, Narratively\, and more. Her memoir manuscript\, which charts her journey as a compulsive hair puller\, was a finalist for the Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize. A graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator\, she holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Emerson College. She is a developmental editor who loves working with nonfiction writers to find the “story” behind the “situation” of their memoirs and essays. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two cats. Find Katie at www.katiebannon.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.comFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/worldbuilding-in-memoir/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Turning Your Memoir Into A Screenplay
DESCRIPTION:You lived it. You wrote about it. Now\, you want to adapt it.\n\n\n\nFor Memoir \n\n\n\nDoes your memoir have what it takes to be a film or TV series? Adaptation requires more than screenplay formatting. This class shows you how to evaluate your story like a producer\, structure it like a screenwriter\, and imagine yourself as a character an actor would want to play.In this three-hour seminar\, we move beyond personal reflection and examine memoir as dramatic source material. You’ll begin by clarifying what your story actually is: its scale\, its genre\, its central tension\, and whether it is better suited to a feature film or television series format. \n\n\n\nNext\, we focus on the dramatic shift that drives adaptation. What is the disruption that alters the trajectory of the narrative? What decision\, loss\, or revelation creates forward motion? You’ll distinguish between interior point of view and visible action\, identifying the turning points that can structure and sustain a film or series rather than simply recounting events. \n\n\n\nFinally\, we adopt a producer’s lens. What makes this story entertaining? What does it need to sustain the development process? What makes the central character strong enough to attract the talent that can help get it made?  \n\n\n\nThrough focused exercises and real case studies—from big-budget movies to independent films and TV series—you’ll begin evaluating your memoir’s adaptation potential with clarity. \n\n\n\nAttendees are invited to submit loglines\, 250-word synopses\, OR a single scene from the exercises in class for written feedback\, up to 4 weeks after the session.  \n\n\n\nA resources handout with links and session slides will be available after the class. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this insightful three-hour live seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nCLARIFY the scope\, genre\, and central tension of your memoir as potential screen material\n\n\n\nDETERMINE whether your story is better suited to a feature film or a television series\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the pivotal disruption in your memoir and distinguish between internal point of view and the dramatic action required for film & TV\n\n\n\nEVALUATE your memoir through a producer’s lens\, assessing entertainment value\, character strength\, and development potential\n\n\n\nANALYZE case studies of major studio and independent adaptations to understand how true stories are reshaped for the screen\n\n\n\nSUBMIT a logline\, 250-word synopsis\, OR short adaptation exercise for written feedback following the seminar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for…\n\n\n\n\nmemoirists who want to unlock the cinematic potential of their manuscript\n\n\n\nwriters ready to evaluate their book’s marketability through a producer’s lens\n\n\n\nauthors who want to translate true stories from source material to screen\n\n\n\nscreenwriters interested in adapting memoir and nonfiction projects\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replay will be available 3 business days after the event. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\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 and collaborative teacher. She has worked with Academy Award–winning producers and directors\, and her original and adapted screenplays have been optioned and developed by major studios and featured at international film markets.  \n\n\n\nShe has written more than 1\,700 advertising campaigns for global brands and worked as a script analyst for agencies and production companies. She previously served as a judge for the Independent Spirit Awards and as North American Curator for the Chinese Women’s Film Festival. 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. \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Consulting with Michelle on my memoir’s adaptation has been transformative. She brought fresh ideas and a professional perspective I never would have had on my own\, while always honoring what my story was truly about at its core.” – Elizabeth Austin  \n\n\n\n“I participated in a highly informative seminar about adaptation with Michelle\, where she discussed how books gain the attention of media-makers. She is very knowledgeable and generous with her time personally\, as well.”- Christina Adams \n\n\n\n“Michelle’s professionalism\, knowledge\, and humor made this workshop engaging and insightful. Her attention to detail and the case studies she shared made the adaptation process clear. I would highly recommend this class for anyone working on a memoir project.” – Grace Koo \n\n\n\n“Working with Michelle on adapting my father’s story was an exceptional experience. Her care\, thoughtfulness\, and thoroughness were evident at every step. I highly recommend her for anyone seeking honest\, creative storytelling techniques for true story adaptations.”– Patrick Boyd \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a full refund. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\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\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/memoir-into-a-screenplay/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Submit It to Win It: Literary Magazine Submission Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Stop crossing your fingers and randomly sending out your work. Instead\, learn to develop a strategy that’s fun and effective in getting your work published.\n\n\n\nFor all genres of literary writing: essays\, flash CNF\, micro-memoirs\, flash fiction\, short stories\, and poetry \n\n\n\nOur first submissions can feel overwhelming\, and the endless rounds of sending our work to literary magazines can feel discouraging\, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The process of publishing can be a fun and satisfying part of the writing life. During this live online class\, Bethany Jarmul will demystify the submissions process and offer practical steps you can take to develop and achieve your writing and submitting goals.  \n\n\n\nDuring the webinar\, we’ll explore eight different submission strategies and how to decide which one is right for you. Discover the pitfalls to avoid and learn tips and tricks to get the attention of editors and get your work published. You’ll leave this workshop with defined writing goals and a strategy for how to achieve them.  \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN how to set realistic writing goals and achieve those goals\n\n\n\nDISCOVER eight different submission strategies and how to choose the one that’s right for you\n\n\n\nLEARN common submission mistakes to avoid\n\n\n\nEXPLORE tips and tricks to get your work published in literary magazines\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\nare new to submitting their work for publication\n\n\n\nfeel like they’re guessing where to submit\n\n\n\nwork in any genre\, including essays\, flash CNF/fiction\, micro-memoirs\, short stories\, and poetry\n\n\n\nfear or feel bad about rejections\n\n\n\nwant to get more acceptances from literary magazines this year\n\n\n\nwant to set writing and publishing goals and get ready to achieve them\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer\, poet\, writing coach\, and workshop instructor. She’s the author of a poetry collection\, Lightning Is a Mother\, and a mini-memoir of flash nonfiction pieces\, Take Me Home. Her work has been published in more than 100 literary magazines\, including Brevity\, River Teeth\, and Chestnut Review. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature and Best Small Fictions\, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, The Best of the Net\, and Best Microfiction. Twice\, she earned first place in Women On Writing’s quarterly flash essay contest. Connect with her at bethanyjarmul.com or on social media: @BethanyJarmul. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/submit-it-to-win-it/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Pleasures of the Personal Essay: New Ideas\, Fresh Forms\, and Expanded Markets for Your Writing
DESCRIPTION:Fun\, flexible\, and highly marketable\, the personal essay is an ideal way to extend our range and add to our writer’s toolbox.\n\n\n\nFor Nonfiction and Essay Writers \n\n\n\nThe personal essay is perhaps the oldest form of nonfiction prose yet remains one of the most misunderstood. This wonderfully flexible and creative form is as alive and inventive as the writer wishes it to be. More than memoir\, but able to include elements of one’s own life experience\, the essay remains an ideal vehicle for satisfying the human urge to not just live year to year\, but to capture a bit of our relationship to the world. \n\n\n\nWhat is an essay? Just this: the personal essayist takes a topic—virtually any topic under the big yellow sun—and holds it up to the bright light\, turning it this way and that\, upside and down\, studying every perspective\, fault\, and reflection in an artful attempt to perceive something fresh and significant. But it is always an effort\, a trial\, an assay\, not a lecture or diatribe. In the hands of contemporary practitioners such as Rebecca Solnit and Roxane Gay\, the personal essay at its best is an idiosyncratic combination of the author’s discrete sensibilities and the endless possibilities of meaning and connection.  \n\n\n\nIn this 90-minute course\, noted essayist and editor Dinty W. Moore will guide you through examples of the myriad forms that an essay can take\, will survey the infinite range of possible topics\, and will leave you with useful prompts to help you determine your own essayistic opportunities. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the myriad ways the essay fits into both literary and commercial publishing\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how the flexibility of the personal essay form can help with “stuckness”\n\n\n\nRECONSIDER The role of research (and how it can be more fun than chore)\n\n\n\nLEARN how to find the best markets (literary magazines and beyond)\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who\n\n\n\n\nwant to expand their skills and opportunities\n\n\n\nare looking for new ideas and fresh topics\n\n\n\nwant to grasp the idea of “memoir-plus”\n\n\n\nfeel “stuck” writing their memoir\n\n\n\nwouldn’t mind getting paid every once in a while\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of our most popular and beloved presenters\, DINTY W. MOORE\, is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It\, and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer\, among other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, Short Reads\, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity\, the journal of flash nonfiction. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/pleasures-of-the-personal-essay/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | More Than a Writer: How Other Roles Inform Our Craft
DESCRIPTION:You’re more than words on a page. How does your life inform your writing?\n\n\n\nThree authors\, three lives. \n\n\n\nOutside of our writing pursuits\, we all have other roles: as parents\, job-holders\, athletes\, volunteers\, activists\, etc. Writers often lament that these demands compete with our practice\, but how can they improve our craft? But how can we balance the lives that surround our writing with the work we create–and more than that\, how can our “regular” lives feed\, complement\, and support our creative process? \n\n\n\nBlair Glaser\, Jocelyn Jane Cox and Jaque Gorelick will share the surprising ways their extra obligations (and passions!) provide inspiration\, content\, and transferable skills\, and of course\, how they handle all the multitasking. Get practical advice and strategies to get words on the page\, not just in spite of your other roles but because of them. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY March 31st at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guests: \n\n\n\nBlair Glaser is a recovering psychotherapist\, executive leadership and career coach. Her essays have appeared in Longreads\, Shondaland\, Oldster\, Quartz\, HuffPost\, Inside Higher Ed\, and others\, as well as in literary magazines such as Brevity\, Scoop\, Rain Taxi\, and The Mantlepiece. She is the author of This Incredible Longing: Finding Myself in a Near-cult Experience (Heliotrope\, 2026).  \n\n\n\nJocelyn Jane Cox was a competitive figure skater who became a national-level coach\, balancing this role with her writing for over 25 years. She is the author of Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood\, Loss\, and Skating on Thin Ice (Vine Leaves\, 9/25). She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Slate\, The Offing\, and the Colorado Review\, among others. \n\n\n\nJacque Gorelick is an elementary school teacher turned writer who spent years helping students turn ideas into stories. Her essays about motherhood\, health\, education\, and estrangement appear in The New York Times\, Salon\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Pithead Chapel\, X-R-A-Y\, and The Kenyon Review. Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love\, Loss\, and Finding the Way Home (Vine Leaves Press 2026) is her debut.  \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guests for this lively\, funny hour of frank talk about publishing\, platform\, and always following your mission. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book\, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/the-writers-bridge-more/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge
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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
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Speculative Memoir Magic: Reclaiming Your Memoir's Power through Speculative Elements
DESCRIPTION:Using speculative elements in your memoir deepens your writing and can crack open blocks in unexpected ways.\n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturdays March 21 & 28\, 1-3 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nFor Memoir  \n\n\n\nThe speculative can help memoirists dramatize things that have been previously unspeakable (& unwritable!) Aligning the imaginative realms with the external events of life is a natural connection for storytellers. Far from being untruths\, speculative elements can bring a reader deeper into the emotional and psychological realities of the memoirist’s psyche.  \n\n\n\nSpeculative memoir is finding its rightful place in the world of creative nonfiction. Books like Jami Nakamura Lin’s The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir\, Carmen Maria Machado’s Into the Dream House\, Ariel Gore’s We Were Witches\, Anna Joy Springer’s The Vicious Red Relic\, Love\, Monster Portraits by Sofia Samatar\, and the presenter’s memoir\, A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir of Ravens\, have been breaking new ground in memoir\, showing a wide range of storytelling approaches unbound by the traditional restraints of the genre.  \n\n\n\nThis seminar offers insight into the vast potential of speculative memoir and provides tools for you to bring speculative elements into your own writing. After reviewing key terms and looking at a brief breakdown of the author’s use of speculative in her memoir\, we will practice with generative writing prompts of varying lengths\, with ample opportunity to share\, receive reflective feedback\, and ask questions. We will also learn a deep inquiry process of active imagination to help with writer’s blocks of all kinds.All participants will receive the slide deck and a powerful Speculative Memoir Playbook\, designed by Laraine Herring\, with a recommended reading list and additional prompts\, tools\, and insights into how they can incorporate speculative elements into their work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this 2-day seminar\, you’ll:\n\n\n\n\nEXAMINE how memoir always engages with the speculative\, even without apparent ghosts or magical elements\n\n\n\nCONSIDER various definitions of speculative memoir\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND\, through a short case study of the presenter’s speculative memoir\, how and why the form was selected for her story and how it changed the book\n\n\n\nLEARN how\, when\, and why to use speculative elements in your memoir\n\n\n\nPRACTICE engaging with speculative elements in your writing\n\n\n\nLEARN a deep inquiry practice that utilizes active imagination to help with blocks\n\n\n\nSHARE work (if willing) and receive generative\, reflective feedback\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for intermediate or advanced memoirists who are:\n\n\n\n\nStuck writing psychologically challenging scenes\n\n\n\nIncorporating ancestral stories and voices into their work\n\n\n\nSeeking to deepen emotional scenes without becoming overly sentimental\n\n\n\nFeeling blocked or uncertain about their story\n\n\n\nSearching for the right structure or form for their memoir\n\n\n\nStruggling to access and vividly portray defining moments from their lives\n\n\n\nWriting memoirs with a stronger internal focus than external events\n\n\n\nFacing challenges in dramatizing emotional responses like grief\, love\, anger\, and joy\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss part of the class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after each session. ✔ \n\n\n\nThis seminar was originally offered January 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\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\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Laraine helped my book tell me what it wants to be and challenged me to do the work to get it there. I am grateful for her intuitive\, empathic\, supportive approach and for her enthusiasm when I arrived at the realizations she was hoping I’d get to as I did that work. Laraine’s skills are many\, and she is fantastic to work with. She is dedicated\, direct\, detailed\, dependable\, and delightful.” — Meg Weber\, author of A Year of Mr. Lucky \n\n\n\n“Through Laraine’s authentic nature and ability to listen\, I learned that writing is as much an act of bravery and strength as it is about being gentle and flexible. I can’t wait to be one of her students again!” — Naomi K. \n\n\n\n“Without a doubt\, Laraine is the most generous\, inspirational\, and challenging writing instructor I have ever met. Using provocative writing exercises\, she guided me through creative discovery\, helping reveal ideas and truths I had previously locked away. She challenged me to delve deeper into my story\, even if it meant going into the dark hidden corners.” — Janine W. \n\n\n\n“Laraine opened doors inside my mind and created space for me to come into relationship with my writing in a refreshing way that was all my own. I had more than one breakthrough working with her. With ease and honesty\, she created an authentic\, interesting\, and inviting space to grow.” — Grace W. \n\n\n\n“Laraine encourages students to dig deep. She provides original\, interesting exercises designed to pull past the first obvious idea and find the more compelling material underneath. She is as invested in students’ work as the students themselves.” — Janet B. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a full refund. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\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\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/seminar-speculative-memoir/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Multiple Platforms\, One Vision: Building Your Audience around Your Mission with Sari Botton
DESCRIPTION:How can you build a multi-audience platform around one vision?\n\n\n\nDiscover how building your own audience springs from commitment to what YOU want to write. \n\n\n\nSari Botton publishes Oldster Magazine\, Memoir Land and Adventures in Journalism to an enormous audience of Substack and email subscribers\, social media admirers\, and live event attendees. Over a long career from journalist to magazine publisher\, she’s interviewed notable writers and\, through Oldster Magazine\, explores what it means to travel through time in a human body at every phase of life. \n\n\n\nShe’s created an ecosystem of complementary publications\, featuring her own writing\, guest essays\, interviews and more–and they all lead back to her vision of intergenerational communication and just plain good writing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll talk about how Sari’s work has evolved over her career while staying true to her vision\, how to make a living by creating what you care about\, and finding the audience that cares\, too. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY February 24th at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSari Botton‘s memoir in essays\, And You May Find Yourself…Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo\, was chosen by Poets & Writers magazine for the 2022 edition of its annual “5 Over 50” feature. An essay from it received notable mention in The Best American Essays 2023\, edited by Vivian Gornick. For five years\, she was the Essays Editor at Longreads. She edited the bestselling anthologies __Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NewYork __and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. She publishes Oldster Magazine\, Memoir Land\, and Adventures in Journalism. She was the Writer in Residence in the creative writing department at SUNY New Paltz for Spring\, 2023. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for this lively\, funny hour of frank talk about publishing\, platform\, and always following your mission. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book\, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/one-vision/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T140000
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Send\, Build\, Grow: Strategies for a Sustainable Newsletter Practice
DESCRIPTION:Sharpen your voice and clarify your process to transform your newsletter into an intentional\, sustainable audience connection.\n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturdays February 21 & 28\, 2-4 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nFor All Creatives \n\n\n\nWhether your author newsletter is thriving at 3000 or well-intentioned but rarely sent to primarily friends and family\, the path to building and sustaining a meaningful email-to-audience practice is rarely straightforward. There are ebbs and flows. Subscribes and unsubscribes. Bursts of momentum followed by long periods of self-doubt and posting-into-the-void vibes. \n\n\n\nThis two-session seminar is designed for writers who have already launched a newsletter—maybe months or even years ago—and now want to step back\, take a clear-eyed look at what they’ve built\, and make it stronger\, clearer\, and easier to maintain. We’ll examine your newsletter as it exists right now: what’s working\, what’s unclear or underpowered\, and where there are opportunities for improvement.  \n\n\n\nRather than starting over\, we’ll refine what’s already there—sharpening your voice\, clarifying your focus\, and improving how you talk about your newsletter so it’s easier for others to understand\, share\, and recommend. We’ll also look at how to build stronger\, more intentional relationships with your readers over time and identify sustainable\, low-lift ways to increase engagement\, visibility\, and momentum. \n\n\n\nThis seminar is not about launching a newsletter or chasing growth at all costs. It’s about turning an existing newsletter into a more intentional\, sustainable practice—one that fits realistically into your writing life and continues to earn its place over time. You’ll leave with concrete adjustments\, clearer decisions\, and a simple system that helps you show up consistently—without burnout\, pressure\, or performative “best practices.” \n\n\n\nNOTES: This seminar assumes you already have a newsletter—active or on hiatus. It is NOT a step-by-step guide to launching from scratch.  \n\n\n\nThe seminar will be appropriate for users of any newsletter platform\, including Substack—you do not need to be on a specific email service. We will look at common elements like metrics and audience data\, but we will not be deeply exploring the technical capabilities of any one service. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this 2-Day seminar\, you’ll:\n\n\n\n\nANALYZE the general forms and philosophies of author newsletters: what works\, what stalls out\, and why \n\n\n\nEXAMINE your own newsletter’s purpose\, audience\, and value—what it’s actually offering readers\, not just what you hope it does\n\n\n\nREFINE your format\, voice\, and focus so your newsletter feels aligned with your strengths and interests\n\n\n\nRETHINK how you present your newsletter—on your site\, on social media\, and in conversation—so it’s easier for others to understand and share\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY low-effort\, sustainable ways to increase visibility and subscribers without adding stress\n\n\n\nSTRENGTHEN your reader relationship through clearer expectations\, better framing\, and more intentional communication\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou will leave with…\n\n\n\n\nA clearer\, more intentional newsletter that reflects your voice and values\n\n\n\nA realistic system you can actually sustain\n\n\n\nConcrete decisions instead of generic advice\n\n\n\nRenewed confidence in why your newsletter matters—and who it’s for\n\n\n\nA sense that your newsletter can be a meaningful\, energizing part of your writing life\, not just another obligation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is for writers and creatives…\n\n\n\n\nWith an existing newsletter who want to improve clarity\, consistency\, and engagement\n\n\n\nWhose newsletters have gone quiet—and want a realistic way to restart and re-engage\n\n\n\nWho feel unsure how their newsletter fits into their broader creative or professional goals\n\n\n\nWho want growth\, but not at the expense of joy or sustainability\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss part of the class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after each session. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\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\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Working with Stephen has been a game-changer. Stephen helped me more than double my newsletter subscribers\, gave me clear focus\, and completely transformed my website.” — Kristen Weber\, Inside an Editor’s Brain \n\n\n\n“Stephen put my mind at ease that building an audience does not have to be ‘hard.'” — Betsy B. (Attendee of From Here to There) \n\n\n\n“Wonderful presentation. I felt like I was talking to a friend.” — Susan B. (Attendee of From Here to There) \n\n\n\n“I deeply appreciate the more grounded\, down-to-earth approach that the presenter took. I also appreciated the very earnest and honest tone of this presentation.” — Justin A. (Attendee of From Here to There) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a full refund. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\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\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/send-build-grow/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T161500
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Social Media Simplified with Jane Friedman
DESCRIPTION:What online behavior actually moves the needle? What’s a waste of time?\n\n\n\nDiscover what’s new in social media for writers in 2026. \n\n\n\nShould you be on social media? Which platforms? Do you need video? What about a newsletter or a Substack?  \n\n\n\nJane Friedman has been writing and reporting on publishing since MySpace. She’s seen the rise and fall of Medium\, Twitter\, and many more. And she’s done the research and knows the numbers: does #BookTok actually sell books\, and which ones? Does it matter if you post video or stick to text? Is LinkedIn actually a social site? And what should be driving the choices you make about your writer platform?  \n\n\n\nCohost Allison K Williams co-founded The Writers Bridge and built platforms on Facebook\, Instagram\, Twitter (RIP) and is currently refusing to be sucked into BlueSky. She swears by an email list\, but needs to use it more effectively. And cohost Sharla Yates doesn’t do much social media at all–should she?  \n\n\n\nWe’ll talk about our own social media and platform-building dilemmas and YOURS on the next episode of The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY January 27th at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the book publishing industry\, with a focus on author education and trend reporting. She is the editor of The Bottom Line\, the essential publishing industry newsletter for authors\, and was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World in 2023. Her latest book is The Business of Being a Writer\, Second Edition (University of Chicago Press)\, which received a starred review from Library Journal. In addition to serving on grant panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Creative Work Fund\, she works with organizations such as The Authors Guild to bring transparency to the business of publishing. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for this lively\, funny hour of frank talk about writing comedy\, writing for TV\, and the wonderful chaos of the writers’ room. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book\, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/bridge-jane-friedman/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Nailed It: Conceptualizing your Nonfiction Book 
DESCRIPTION:Clarify your book’s purpose\, identify its core message\, and develop an outline or structure for your book that aligns with your purpose.\n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturdays\, January 17th & 24th\, 2-5 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nFor Nonfiction\, Creative Nonfiction\, and Memoir writers \n\n\n\nFor over two decades\, Melissa Petro has helped hundreds of writers nail down the concept for their nonfiction books. A strong concept is the critical first step in writing a book\, yet so many writers either settle on a vague or underdeveloped idea—one that lacks a clear narrative thread or emotional/logical core—or skip this step altogether.  \n\n\n\nThis 2-day seminar focuses on you getting this step right. The intensive will combine lectures\, discussions\, readings\, and writing exercises. Together\, we’ll clarify your book’s purpose\, identify its core message\, and develop an outline or structure for your book that aligns with your purpose\, setting you up for the next stages of writing. \n\n\n\nParticipants will have the opportunity to submit a description of their project to the instructor for feedback. \n\n\n\nAdded bonus: senior agent Laura Mazer will join the second class\, giving participants a chance to workshop their concept live. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, you’ll:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the pros and cons of various publishing paths\, including Big Five\, indie\, hybrid\, and self-publishing.  \n\n\n\nIDENTIFY your potential primary and secondary audiences and discuss other aspects of market\, including premise and promise\, style\, voice\, and thesis\n\n\n\nDISCOVER competitive titles and other ways to demonstrate how a new book fits within the existing market\, helping agents\, editors\, and publishers understand its potential audience and sales viability. \n\n\n\nCREATE a chapter outline\, ensuring your chapters are in an order with a strong narrative arc and/or concepts that flow from one to the other or tell some kind of story. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for \n\n\n\n\nnonfiction writers interested in writing a book\n\n\n\nwriters who are stalled at any stage in the writing process\n\n\n\nanyone curious about the book-writing process\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss part of the class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after each session. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Petro is a freelance writer and the author of Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification\, published by Putnam Books\, a division of Penguin Random House. As a workshop facilitator\, she’s helped hundreds of people push through fear\, write\, share\, and even publish their most vulnerable stories in national publications such as The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, Salon\, The Washington Post\, and elsewhere\, and has helped still more individuals re-envision their lives by making meaning of their past and transcending traumatic experiences. \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Melissa Petro is an exceptional writing teacher. She masterfully balances support and challenge\, pushing her students to refine their work while offering insightful and encouraging feedback. Her unique blend of honesty\, kindness\, and fresh perspective makes her an invaluable guide for any aspiring writer.” – Jennifer S.  \n\n\n\n“I’m lucky to have found such a terrific mentor in Melissa. Her honest\, critical feedback has expanded my writing skills. She also shares her experience as a lifetime writer\, synthesizes how the industry operates\, and offers best practices for becoming a published author. I highly recommend any course Melissa offers.” – Shabana S.  \n\n\n\n“I always knew I wanted to be a writer but was too scared to commit to the work- working with Melissa not only held me accountable to finishing my memoir\, but made me a better writer. Every time we connected I knew I would be met with honest critique that pushed me past my comfort zone which is exactly what I needed.” – Shannon O.  \n\n\n\n“Melissa Petro gave me the expertise and encouragement needed to finally publish my writing. She has helped me to shape ideas\, pitches\, and drafts into essays for HuffPost\, Elle\, and Business Insider. Her mentorship has been incredibly valuable to me as a writer and a woman who is turning her most shameful secrets into compelling articles. She’s just the best there is.” – Katie N.  \n\n\n\n“Melissa Petro is an engaged\, knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher. She provided practical guidance\, while also giving us thoughtful personal feedback to each student. Highly recommend her class!” \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a full refund. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\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\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/seminar-nailed-it/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Self vs. Self: Writing Your Best Essays from Contradictions
DESCRIPTION:The confusions and contradictions you notice in yourself and the world are your richest source of material.\n\n\n\nFor essayists and creative nonfiction writers | Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nAs humans\, we seek certainty. As writers\, diving into the messiness of our own opinions creates our most powerful work. Transcendent\, complex works of nonfiction often depend on confusions and contradictions. A writer can intentionally build tension in an essay by identifying and illuminating paradox\, contradiction\, and incongruity in oneself\, one’s subject\, one’s culture\, and the world. Leaning into and exploring contradiction is often the difference between a simple\, underdeveloped draft and a powerful\, published essay\, article\, or memoir.  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll examine works of nonfiction\, including Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz (a memoir of grief and joy intertwined)\, to learn how authors establish and contend with opposite principles\, conflicting perspectives\, and subjects that seemingly clash. You’ll also generate your own list of contradictions you can return to time and again for inspiration. \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 works of master nonfiction essayists and memoirists to see how to utilize contradictions thematically and stylistically\n\n\n\nDISCOVER why paradox and confusion make the richest material\n\n\n\nPRACTICE making your own lists of contradictions for future inspiration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou should take this webinar if… \n\n\n\n\nYou are an intermediate or advanced writer who wants to dig beneath the obvious stories you’ve been telling\n\n\n\nYou need help generating material\n\n\n\nYou want to add depth\, tension\, and nuance to your essays and nonfiction\n\n\n\nYou are eager to clarify (rather than avoid) the contradictions that shape your voice\n\n\n\nYou are writing on grief\, loss\, or other strong subjects\, and it’s difficult to find the tension or dramatic arc beyond one set of powerful feelings\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\nLindsey DeLoach Jones is a writer living in Greenville\, South Carolina. She writes about the tension between seemingly opposed forces—the spiritual and the practical\, the mysterious and the mundane\, the Mother and the Artist—in her Substack\, Between Two Things. \n\n\n\nLindsey holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and has served as the Writer-in-Residence at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts. She has taught literature and writing at Clemson University and currently teaches writing online and in person at Writeshare\, the writers’ network she co-founded in Upstate SC. She previously served as Editor of Emrys Journal and Edible Upcountry. Among other places\, Lindsey’s essays have appeared in HuffPost\, HuffPost Parenting\, Split Lip\, Under the Gum Tree\, and Motherwell. She is a recipient of the Vandermey Nonfiction Prize\, and an essay nominated by Pigeon Pages was a finalist for 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/self-vs-self/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:REPLAY | Organize Your Writing Life: Get UNstuck in 2026
DESCRIPTION:Tired of feeling guilty about unfinished work? Stop drowning in drafts. You need a mission and a map to cross the finish line.\n\n\n\nFor All Writers | TO BE SENT ON MONDAY 1/12/26 \n\n\n\nNew year\, new plan—what kind of writer do you want to be? What book are you dying to start (or finish!) What’s the mission that will get you going to bring your words into the world? And is FINAL-final-draft-6B.doc the most recent manuscript? (it’s been a few weeks since you sat down!) \n\n\n\nHere’s the truth: if you start with “organizing” you’ll never get finished. What you need is a practical\, flexible approach that meets your actual life and fits your limited calendar. To cut through the overwhelm and focus on the story you want to tell and the readers you need to reach. And of course\, a specific list of the steps to take to get from draft to done. \n\n\n\nIn this 90-minute webinar with Allison K Williams\, get clear on your goals and learn how tomerge linear planning with creative flexibility to organize your files and your projects. You’ll set (doable!) goals that matter and learn patterns to stay focused on your project despite the demands of work\, family and home. You’ll get tips and tricks to stay motivated and confident when you’re not getting much feedback\, and easy\, free ways to connect with other writers. \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 learn:\n\n\n\n\nThe Brain Dump Method: How to get every project\, idea\, and obligation out of your head and onto paper—then decide what actually matters (and what you can let go)\n\n\n\nThe Lifeboat: A powerful technique to identify which project deserves your focus right now\, even when you’re torn between multiple manuscripts\n\n\n\nA 5-minute technique to organize ALL your digital files: find what you need in 30 seconds\, not 30 minutes!\n\n\n\nProject planning for creative minds: How to map your manuscript structure using sticky notes\, index cards\, or digital tools—and why treating each scene as its own accomplishment changes everything\n\n\n\nUnderstanding your creative energy\, bravery\, and commitment—and how to stop spending them in the wrong places\n\n\n\nHow to balance research and writing: The revolutionary way to store and use your research without getting sucked into rabbit holes \n\n\n\nCreating habits that stick: The “if-then” formula that gets you writing\, and why your tiny\, frightened lizard brain needs to hear “I’ll come back\, I promise”\n\n\n\nYour platform is your writing: How to build author presence without taking focus off your writing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for… \n\n\n\n\nFiction\, nonfiction and memoir writers with a manuscript at any stage—started\, murky middle\, revisions\, or just a compelling idea demanding your attention\n\n\n\nThose building a writing side hustle—teaching\, editing\, coaching—and need strategies to balance the paid work with your own creative projects\n\n\n\nCreatives juggling multiple unfinished projects who need clarity on which one to prioritize\n\n\n\nWriters with child/family/caregiver obligations who just can’t see where the time will come from \n\n\n\nWriters with disabilities or neurodivergence that hinder writing time\, focus or stamina\n\n\n\nWriters who want to form and define their writing life through conscious practice\n\n\n\nCreative Writing students and MFA graduates having a hard time writing without external deadlines\n\n\n\nWriters who alternate between prolific writing binges and “hitting a wall” or getting creatively blocked\n\n\n\n\nNot for people who have their lives\, their time\, and their schedule 100% together and everything is fine! (Please\, tell us how!) \n\n\n\nYou’ll receive:\n\n\n\n\nWorksheets to plan your time\, rank your priorities\, and determine which project will be your focus this year\n\n\n\nPDF of the slides from the workshop\n\n\n\nAccess to daily FREE co-writing sessions\, all year long\n\n\n\nA renewed sense of purpose in your writing.\n\n\n\n\nThis isn’t about becoming someone who has it all together. It’s about becoming someone who makes progress despite not having it all together. Because that’s the only way any of us actually finish books. \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 publishing deals with Big Five\, independent & literary presses. She’s guided essayists and humorists to publications including the New Yorker\, Time\, the Guardian\, the New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, Refinery29\, Hippocampus\, the Belladonna and TED Talks. Her own writing on travel\, craft\, culture and comedy has appeared in/on National Public Radio\, CBC-Canada\, the New York Times\, the Christian Science Monitor\, Writers Digest\, 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\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/organize-your-writing-life/
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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | How to Pitch Your Book in 2026 with Literary Agent Jessica Berg
DESCRIPTION:Whether you’re talking to agents\, publishers or readers\, you need to comfortably talk about your book.\n\n\n\nWhat makes a great pitch\, and the platform you need to support your book. \n\n\n\nGetting your book to the shelves means talking about it–clearly\, concisely\, and in a way that builds excitement and anticipation. And talking about your platform is part of that pitch.  \n\n\n\nLiterary Agent Jessica Berg has heard thousands of pitches\, and helped the authors she represents shape their platform and refine their pitch to attract publishing deals\, plan their marketing\, and ultimately reach readers.  \n\n\n\nCohost Allison K Williams has shepherded writers through live and virtual pitch events\, and helped them get comfortable talking about themselves and their books with top agents in New York and London. She’s pitched a fair few books herself and learned some surprising new elements of her own platform for 2026. \n\n\n\nWe’ll talk about successful book pitches\, how your platform can support your pitch\, and hear some of YOUR pitches on the next episode of The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY December 30th at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Berg is a literary agent\, author\, and the founder of Rosecliff Literary. She loves stories that explore grief\, longing\, ambition\, and survival and the complicated ways they intersect.  \n\n\n\nShe earned her MFA from Spalding University and contributes regularly to Writer’s Digest. Jessica serves on the boards of the Women’s National Book Association and the Historical Novel Society\, and teaches nationally on querying\, comp titles\, and the business of authorship\, with a focus on building sustainable\, long-term writing careers. Her client list includes Vincent Zandri\, Lisa Roe\, Arizona Bell\, and others.. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for this lively\, funny hour of frank talk about writing and publishing. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book\, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/bridge-pitch/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Using AI for Writing Business Efficiency: The Practical\, Ethical Way to Spend More Time Doing What You Love
DESCRIPTION:If you’ve ever spent hours on tedious research or business tasks\, struggled to come up with marketing plans or marketing copy\, or felt intimidated by the rapidly evolving landscape around AI\, this session is for you.\n\n\n\nFor All Writers \n\n\n\nWriters and publishing professionals are suddenly awash in AI promises—“Outsource your editing to AI!” or “Use AI to automate your marketing!” —yet most of us are quietly wondering: Can these tools really help without compromising quality or ethics?  \n\n\n\nYes.  \n\n\n\nIf you apply your critical thinking skills and thoughtfulness to the process\, and if you’re willing to pay a monthly fee for the professional versions of today’s AI tools. \n\n\n\nIn this class\, publishing industry expert Jane Friedman demystifies the current AI landscape and shows through examples and live demos how to incorporate AI tools into your workflow so you can reclaim creative time and reduce time sinks. Drawing on other authors’ examples and her use\, Jane shows how to use AI responsibly\, with human oversight and respect for readers\, writers\, and the larger community. It is possible to use AI in a way that keeps your voice your own and your copyright intact. \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 administrative and business tasks ripe for AI assistance\, especially marketing and promotion tasks\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW AI can be used as a research assistant\, with citations you can check—and how it can serve as another layer of protection against errors creeping into your work\n\n\n\nDISCOVER HOW AI can be helpful for brainstorming and idea refinement (it’s great at generating common\, boring ideas to work against!)\n\n\n\nGET methods of generating of quick first drafts using your own words\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW to prevent AI from training on material you upload\n\n\n\nGAIN a clearer sense of how to use AI with care and transparency\n\n\n\n\nWhat is not covered:\n\n\n\n\nUsing AI to generate images or video\n\n\n\nUsing AI to write longform articles or books from scratch (but short summaries? yes!)\n\n\n\nAn explanation of all the AI tools and features available today; instead\, Jane will focus on a handful of tools she uses and knows best\, primarily ChatGPT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut isn’t AI illegal/unethical? While lawsuits are underway about the legality of how some of these models have been trained\, the courts have not yet made any decisions about whether that training was fair use (legal) or infringement. Even if the courts find that the models constitute infringement\, the most likely outcome is that financial remedies will be put in place. The AI companies will not suddenly be shut down or go out of business. AI technologies will continue to develop just as they always have and on a global scale. \n\n\n\nAI companies now legally license material from established media outlets and publishers\, including the largest New York publishers and educational corporations. AI is taught in schools\, used by professors\, and plays a role in nearly every business around the globe. It’s true that some people use AI in unethical or illegal ways. In fact\, Jane was personally affected by such use. But that’s not the same as the tool itself being unethical or illegal. This class will emphasize how to use the technology in an ethical\, legal manner. \n\n\n\nBut isn’t AI bad for the environment? The energy required to use AI is akin to any modern convenience. Here’s a ​big-picture overview​ from a former physics teacher about the environmental costs and a data scientist who cares about sustainability (and has published a book on the topic) who ​agrees​ with his conclusions: Cheat Sheet & Carbon Footprint.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for people who have little or no experience using AI tools and aren’t sure how to use them; those using AI who want to guard their copyrights and learn best practices; and authors in any genre or category.\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\nFor nearly three decades\, Jane Friedman has helped thousands of authors build sustainable careers. She is the author of The Business of Being a Writer\, Second Edition (University of Chicago Press) and a frequent speaker at global industry events. Her expertise has been cited by The New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, and Poets & Writers\, and her long-running newsletter\, The Bottom Line\, helps industry professionals stay on top of publishing trends—especially the evolving role of AI. With a background that spans traditional publishing\, digital marketing strategy\, and entrepreneurial authorship\, Jane offers a uniquely balanced perspective on harnessing technology without sacrificing craft or ethics. \n\n\n\n \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/using-ai/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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