BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Craft Talks - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://writingcraft.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Craft Talks REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T235959 DTSTAMP:20260604T144450Z CREATED:20260520T145148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260604T144450Z UID:10000126-1780272000-1782863999@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:REPLAY | Writing Through the Lens: Think Like a Photographer to Craft Compelling Scenes DESCRIPTION:Struggling with writing scenes or recreating lost memories? Thinking like a photographer can help.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES: VIDEO\, CHAT\, PROMPTS\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT \n\n\n\nNot included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nImages can be a remarkable tool for creative nonfiction writers. Photographers use vivid prose to describe their work\, and the techniques they use to create inspired\, memorable photos can have the same effect on your writing. \n\n\n\nAs memoirists\, we choose what events and moments belong in our work. Photographers make similar decisions when composing images\, and the elements that make a picture memorable and meaningful are often the result of choices that the casual observer doesn’t even realize the person behind the camera is making. Whether you’re writing a memoir or creative nonfiction\, photographs can be a powerful tool to help you not only tap into what is happening but also show the reader why these scenes are taking place. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will examine samples of memoir and essay that draw upon photographs to deepen scenes and characters\, and you will learn how to use these practical techniques in your own storytelling. \n\n\n\nRegistrants will receive a handout with prompts and actionable tips. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN to read photographs in order to better understand composition of scenes\n\n\n\nDRAW inspiration from two-dimensional images to “frame” your own scenes\n\n\n\nLEARN how to create compelling prose that draws your reader into your story \n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for creative nonfiction writers who are struggling to make old memories or family tales come to life.\n\n\n\nThe live event happened in November 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrace Hwang Lynch is a storyteller in journalism\, essays\, and photography. Her work can be found on outlets including Tin House\, Catapult\, and NPR. Her food memoir How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family will be published in early 2027 by Regalo Press. Website: www.gracehwanglynch.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/replay-writing-through-the-lens/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Hwang.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T161500 DTSTAMP:20260618T124558Z CREATED:20260518T163624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260618T124558Z UID:10000125-1782313200-1782317700@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Poetry\, Prose\, or Both? Writing and Publishing a Hybrid Memoir DESCRIPTION:Crossing genres can be an obstacle—or a selling point. Explore the craft of writing and the art of pitching a memoir that wants both poetry and prose.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Poetry\, and Hybrid \n\n\n\nSometimes a moment demands the compression of a poem. Sometimes it needs room to breathe in prose. But what happens when your memoir wants both? In this webinar\, we’ll explore the craft of hybrid memoir—how to recognize when a piece is calling for verse versus essay\, how to let both forms coexist without flattening or repeating yourself\, and how each genre can do work the other can’t.We’ll also tackle the practical challenges of bringing hybrid and multi-genre work to publication: how to structure the manuscript\, how to describe it in a query\, how to find receptive publishers\, and how to talk about your book when it defies easy categorization.Drawing from Brenda’s experience writing and placing Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems (Skinner House Books\, April 2026)\, she’ll share both the creative and publishing lessons learned along the way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN to recognize when a moment\, image\, or memory wants to be a poem or an essay\n\n\n\nGAIN permission to try different forms and genres for the same material\n\n\n\nDISCOVER strategies for letting poetry and prose speak to each other without redundancy\n\n\n\nEXPLORE organizing principles for a hybrid manuscript\n\n\n\nPRACTICE language for describing multi-genre work to agents\, editors\, and readers\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY which presses are most open to unconventional memoir forms\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for…\n\n\n\n\nwriters who enjoy the freedom to explore more than one genre at once (and want to feel better about it!)\n\n\n\nanyone who has wondered: “Is this a poem or is this an essay?”—and suspected the answer might be “yes”\n\n\n\n writers working on a book that feels like “essays” and “memoir” and “maybe poetry” all at once\n\n\n\nanyone who has been told their manuscript is “hard to categorize” or “difficult to shelve”\n\n\n\nthose preparing to query or submit a multi-genre project and unsure how to describe it\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrenda Miller is noted for making form “feel like a gift\, not a constraint” and teaches as “a wise friend who’s read everything and still gets excited about a well-placed line break.” Warm\, practical\, and full of “what ifs\,” Brenda’s sessions are full of the mutual joy of discovery.  \n\n\n\nBrenda Miller’s new hybrid collection\, Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems\, is just out from Skinner House Books (April 2026). She is the author of six additional essay collections\, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form\, andAn Earlier Life\, winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. She co-authored\, with Holly J. Hughes\, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World\, and\, with Suzanne Paola\, Tell It Slant: Creating\, Refining\, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction\, now in its third edition. She coined the term “Hermit Crab Essay.” Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/poetry-prose-or-both/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T140000 DTSTAMP:20260628T205217Z CREATED:20260628T205109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260628T205217Z UID:10000133-1782824400-1782828000@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Bringing Back the Backlist: Reviving Your Books for a New Audience with Christopher Buehlman DESCRIPTION:What do you do when a book you believe in didn’t find its readers the first time around?\n\n\n\nPublishing trends\, author persistence\, and smart strategy can give a great book the life it deserves. \n\n\n\nMany authors have one — a book that came out quietly\, got lost in the noise\, or simply arrived before its moment. And every author wonders: is it gone for good\, or can I bring it back? \n\n\n\nChristopher Buehlman\, author of successful fantasy novels The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters War knows both sides of that question. His novel Between Two Fires — a harrowing\, visionary journey through plague-ravaged medieval France — was published in 2012 to critical acclaim and then waited\, mostly quietly\, for the world to catch up. Now\, 14 years later\, it’s a New York Times Bestseller\, acquired by Tor and re-released in March 2026. That’s not luck. That’s an author who stayed in the game\, kept writing\, kept building\, and understood how publishing actually works over time. \n\n\n\nWe’ll talk about the long arc of a writing career\, what it takes to keep your backlist alive and findable\, how to recognize when publishing trends are moving in your favor\, and what authors can do right now to make sure their best work gets the second chance it deserves. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY JUNE 30 at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Buehlman is the New York Times bestselling author of Between Two Fires\, The Blacktongue Thief\, The Daughters’ War\, The Lesser Dead\, The Necromancer’s House\, The Suicide Motor Club\, and Those Across the River. Writing at the intersection of horror and fantasy with wit\, grit\, and genuine literary ambition\, he has built a devoted readership across more than a decade of publishing. He escaped Florida via sarcasm and dark fiction\, and has never looked back. \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 careers\, publishing realities\, and books that refuse to stay dead. \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-backlist/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TWB-logo-2023-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260731T235959 DTSTAMP:20260720T143736Z CREATED:20250825T195635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260720T143736Z UID:10000055-1782864000-1785542399@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:REPLAY | Beyond Description: Creating Powerful\, Realistic Characters in Fiction and Memoir DESCRIPTION:The most powerful characters on the page are complex and multi-layered\, and they both surprise and convince readers with (and within!) their reality.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES: VIDEO\, SLIDES\, CHAT\, PROMPTS\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT \n\n\n\nFor Fiction and Memoir \n\n\n\nNovelists create characters from nothing\, who must feel as real as anyone we’ve met. Memoirists must pack a lifetime of knowledge into selected details to show readers the people they engaged with\, as those people truly are. But too often\, writers default to physical description—characters pausing in front of conveniently reflective surfaces—or narrating our own judgements of the people we know\, rather than allowing readers to make those discoveries themselves. As an actor\, playwright\, and director\, Allison K Williams has explored character creation inside and out. \n\n\n\nIn this special 2-hour webinar\, you’ll learn how to use tools from theatre to analyze your own text and create stronger characters on the page. With examples from fiction and memoir\, we’ll examine how objectives\, passions\, and foibles drive characters and deepen their dramatic impact; how qualities of movement are expressed in verbs and adverbs; the difference between high-context dialogue and “stuff I needed the reader to know so I made a character say it”; and even dive into how punctuation can shape a character’s emotion in a scene. \n\n\n\nYou’ll raise your craft level and gain a tool kit to help you present all your characters\, real or fictional\, as fully rounded beings\, regardless of their word count\, and make each one memorable and worthy of their time on the page. \n\n\n\nIn-class writing time and live editing will give you a chance to apply this to your writing right away. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a TWO-HOUR class\, with 20 minutes of writing time in the middle.\n\n\n\n\n45 minutes – Learn the tools of character analysis\, and key writing techniques to show character on the page\n\n\n\n10 minutes – Q&A to fully understand and apply the information.\n\n\n\n20 minutes – Revise a scene that introduces one of your key characters to heighten the character’s impact on the page and more skillfully show who they are\, what they want and why they matter. Allison will continue taking questions in the chat. \n\n\n\nOPTIONAL: volunteer for live-editing and upload your scene as a Word doc or docx to a Google Drive (link will be provided in class\, no pages will be accepted before they are called for).\n\n\n\n40 minutes – Allison will live-edit pages shared on screen\, noting where the writer is succeeding and what revisions could make the prose even more effective. During live edits\, she’ll call out specific techniques and tips for everyone to apply to their own work\, right away. \n\n\n\n10 minutes – Q&A and planning your writing from here.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar will cover\n\n\n\n\nHOW the interplay of passion and foible creates conflict and tension within and between characters\n\n\n\nThe “CHARACTER ZERO” of Commedia Dell’ Arte and how it relates to modern prose\n\n\n\nSHOWING villainous\, abusive\, narcissistic and harmful behavior in ways that allow the reader to judge—and why moments of “good” give evil more impact\n\n\n\nWORLDBUILDING through character action and dialogue\n\n\n\nWHEN\, HOW\, and WHY to use adverbs (hint: “in a _____ tone” is needlessly verbose! Bring on the adverbs!)\n\n\n\nThe ACTOR’S TECHNIQUE for bringing to life the most minor of characters—and how to use it in writing.\n\n\n\nOBJECTIVES and OBSTACLES\, and how they make characters active in every scene.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for\n\n\n\n\nNovelists with a large cast of characters who need distinction; or only a few characters who must hold the reader’s attention throughout the book\n\n\n\nMemoirists who want to write vivid characters without getting lost in their own emotional past experience\n\n\n\nCreative writing students and graduates of MFA programs who want to expand their writing craft with conscious practice.\n\n\n\nDevelopmental editors who want to grow their knowledge of characterization in prose and better communicate that knowledge to their author clients.\n\n\n\n“Plotters” struggling with bringing a character dossier to life on the page \n\n\n\n“Pantsers” who need to fill in background and personality without info-dumping\n\n\n\nWriters hearing feedback that their characters blend together\, or are too “black-and-white” and need more depth\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe live event happened in October 2025. \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams is the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro From Blank Page to Book. She has edited and coached writers to Big Five and literary/university publishing deals and the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. She’s guided essayists and humorists to publication in media including the New Yorker\, Time\, the Guardian\, the New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, Refinery29\, Hippocampus\, the Belladonna and TED Talks. As Social Media Editor for Brevity\, she inspires thousands of writers with weekly blogs on craft and the writing life. \n\n\n\nBefore turning to writing and editing fulltime\, Allison was a classically-trained actor. With a BA in Theatre and an MFA in Playwriting\, she has acted and directed with American Stage\, The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival\, Eckerd College\, Western Michigan University\, and many more. Her plays for young actors have been noted by Dramatics Magazine as top-ten most produced worldwide\, and her multi-character solo show TRUE STORY won Best of Fringe at the London Fringe Festival and toured the USA and Canada. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/beyond-description/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Event-Template-1-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T163000 DTSTAMP:20260625T123305Z CREATED:20260603T164418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260625T123305Z UID:10000128-1782918000-1782923400@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Crafting Emotion & Imagination: Exploring Lyrical Writing DESCRIPTION:Learn the secrets to writing gorgeous\, lyrical work that makes editors and readers say\, “Wow!” \n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Fiction\, and PoetryIncluded in the upcoming Season Pass \n\n\n\nDo you want your writing to be beautiful and imaginative while staying true to the emotional moment? Would you like to improve the sound and musicality of your sentences? During this generative session\, we’ll dive deep into techniques and tools you can use to increase the lyricism of your writing\, regardless of genre.  \n\n\n\nFirst\, learn the difference between lyrical and narrative writing and when you may want to use one or the other. Then explore the five key elements of lyrical writing\, with examples from virtuoso writers\, and what makes each one powerful for readers. Finally\, practice applying lyrical techniques to your own writing with a prompt and writing time. You’ll leave with the start of a new draft and additional exercises to explore and develop your writing on your own. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN the five key elements of lyrical writing\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the differences between lyrical and narrative writing\, and how (and why!) to use both\n\n\n\nPRACTICE suspending or manipulating time in your essays\, stories\, or poems\, along with other lyrical techniques\n\n\n\nDISCOVER strategies to increase the emotional and musical resonance of your writing at the sentence level\n\n\n\nUSE imaginative tools to add layers to your work\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for intermediate writers who want to…\n\n\n\n\nexplore lyrical writing \n\n\n\ndeepen and develop their writing voice\n\n\n\nincrease the musicality and beauty of their prose or poetry \n\n\n\ntap into higher levels of imagination and emotion in their writing\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer\, poet\, writing coach\, and enthusiastic\, engaging\, and inspiring workshop instructor. She’s the author of a poetry collection\, Lightning Is a Mother\, and a memoir\, Take Me Home. Her work has been published in more than 100 literary magazines\, including Rattle\, Brevity\, and Chestnut Review. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature and Best Small Fictions and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/crafting-emotion/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MASTER-Event-Templates-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T163000 DTSTAMP:20260707T154923Z CREATED:20260610T150205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260707T154923Z UID:10000129-1783522800-1783528200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Shake It Loose! Unexpected Prompts and Nudges to Spark “The Muse” DESCRIPTION:Inspiration is tied to innovation\, and innovation is a deliberate act.\n\n\n\nFor Nonfiction\, Memoir\, and Fiction WritersIncluded in the Season PassThis webinar will be entirely interactive\, with varied suggestions\, nudges\, and obstructions carefully designed to uncover fertile new directions for your work\, whether you are looking to start something new or trying to regain momentum in your current work-in-progress.\n\n\n\nWell-meaning folks often ask about our “inspiration\,” as if some external force—an angel\, a bluebird\, the Muse—mysteriously slips a brilliant idea into our brain as we sleep\, and all we need do is wake up and write it down. Easy peasy! \n\n\n\nBut it doesn’t work like that. Inspiration is tied to innovation\, and innovation is a deliberate act. We achieve success by being the ones who jump up from the rut of normal and predictable\, by walking bravely into an unexplored forest of fresh ideas and raw emotions\, and trusting we will find something worth writing about there. \n\n\n\nAnd how do we find these forests of artistic innovation? One of the surest ways is prompts and nudges\, as odd and varied as we can find. \n\n\n\nThis approach can work wonders. And by the way\, it’s also fun! Bring a pencil or two\, some paper\, your brain\, and a willingness to go in unexpected directions. Shake it up and let’s write! \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how to shake loose new ideas\, new angles and fresh perspectives\n\n\n\nLEARN the power of odd associations\, mixed signals\, curveballs\, and stretching the muscles of the imagination\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE prompts and nudges that work to open up neural pathways\, and lubricate the imagination (and memory)\n\n\n\nUNCOVER fertile new directions for your work\n\n\n\nSURPRISE YOURSELF with new writing in new directions\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who…\n\n\n\n\nworry that they keep writing the same thing or feel stuck in an established comfort zone\n\n\n\nare concerned that they have “run through” all of their good ideas\n\n\n\nfeel stuck on a current project (large or small)\n\n\n\nhave just finished a draft and desperately need a palate-cleanser\n\n\n\nare looking for fresh places to take future projects\n\n\n\nwant to have fun\, surprise themselves\, and take some chances\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of our most popular and beloved presenters\, DINTY W. MOORE\, is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer\, among other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, Short Reads\, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity\, the journal of flash nonfiction. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/shake-it-loose/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Moore.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T163000 DTSTAMP:20260717T010706Z CREATED:20260615T170009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T010706Z UID:10000130-1784818800-1784824200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Art of the Cinematic Close-Up: Crafting Details that Immerse Readers in Your Story DESCRIPTION:Learn to use your writerly “lens” to focus on the solitary details that open a narrative universe of fluid\, truthful\, and seamless prose.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction and Fiction WritersIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWriters of fiction and nonfiction alike understand: we can’t use ostentatious or flowery language\, nor vague or abstract moments\, if we want to truly grab our readers and immerse them in the world of our story. Learn how to focus your scenes with concrete details\, vivid imagery\, original language\, and apt metaphor that is scaled to the task at hand. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll use the metaphor of photography and cinema to focus our writing lenses on the art of the close-up—the particular\, singular\, and sustained. Looking at writers from Cheryl Strayed to Virginia Woolf\, J.R.R. Tolkien to Zadie Smith\, we’ll examine how to describe physical things and people\, places\, as well as discreet moments in time\, states of high emotion\, and interiority with rigor and specificity. From “close-ups” like a dying moth on a windowsill; the way a drunken father stumbles around the house; the moment you tossed your second hiking boot off the mountaintop; a feeling of foreboding partway through a quest; you’ll discover how to use language beautifully and truthfully to create what John Gardner called a “vivid and continuous” dream in the reader’s imagination.   \n\n\n\nYou’ll leave having written some new passages that you can use in any writing project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the craft of sustained\, vivid description\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how to manipulate your writerly lens of focus with intention\n\n\n\nLEARN the difference between the particular and specific vs. the vague and abstract\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing new passages using close-up techniques you can immediately apply to your own work\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who:\n\n\n\n\nfeel their work is flat or lacking depth\, focus or specificity\n\n\n\nare finding their writing voice\n\n\n\nstruggle with writing description\n\n\n\nwant to move beyond generic imagery and find the singular\, unexpected detail that brings a scene to life\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sharp\, funny presenter\, Ethan Gilsdorf is a writer\, teacher\, performer\, and a huge nerd. The author of the award-winning memoir Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks\, his work appears in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Esquire\, Wired\, Salon\, O the Oprah Magazine\, Huffington Post\, Brevity\, Electric Literature\, Poetry\, and The Southern Review\, among other publications\, and has been named “Notable” by The Best American Essays.  \n\n\n\nEthan teaches workshops in essay\, creative nonfiction\, and memoir at GrubStreet in Boston\, where he leads the Essay Incubator program\, and at LitArts RI. He is also on the faculty of the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University. At Hampshire College\, he studied filmmaking and creative writing and received an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Louisiana State University. He presented the TEDx talk “Why Dungeons & Dragons is Good for You (In Real Life)” and offers workshops teaching adults\, children\, and organizations how to play Dungeons & Dragons. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/art-of-the-cinematic/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Event-Templates-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T140000 DTSTAMP:20260721T165214Z CREATED:20260721T155924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260721T165214Z UID:10000141-1785243600-1785247200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Author Website 101: Building Your Homebase with Lynda Hammes DESCRIPTION:Do you actually need a website\, or is social media enough?\n\n\n\nA website is the one piece of your author platform you actually own—and it might be the most underused sales and discovery tool authors have. \n\n\n\nEvery author eventually asks the same question: do I really need my own website\, or can I just live on Instagram and Substack? The honest answer is that social platforms come and go\, algorithms change overnight\, and none of it belongs to you. A website is different. It’s your one-stop business card\, mailing list nerve center\, and permanent home base—the one place readers\, agents\, and editors can find the real\, current story of who you are and what you write. \n\n\n\nWe’ll cover what actually belongs on an author website (and what doesn’t)\, why an email sign-up matters more than almost anything else on the page\, how a website helps new readers discover your books through search\, and how to keep readers engaged between releases. We’ll also talk through the practical build question every author faces: pay for a custom build\, DIY on a platform like Wix\, Squarespace\, or WordPress\, or use an author-specific tool like Tertulia\, built to make author websites easy and fast. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY JULY 28 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\nLynda Hammes is the co-founder of Tertulia\, a platform reimagining online book discovery and community\, and an all-in-one website\, email marketing\, and direct-sales builder made specifically for authors. Her career spans journalism\, magazine publishing — including her tenure as Publisher/Chief Revenue Officer at Foreign Affairs — and brand strategy and growth marketing consulting. That background in content\, audience\, and digital growth now shapes how Tertulia helps authors build a real\, lasting connection with readers. \n\n\n\n \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 careers\, publishing realities\, and how authors can position themselves and their books in the world. \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-author-website-101/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TWB-logo-2023-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T163000 DTSTAMP:20260723T141946Z CREATED:20260624T153352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T141946Z UID:10000131-1785337200-1785342600@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Nature Writing Reimagined: Cultivating Observation & Connection in Every Genre DESCRIPTION:Nature writing is often treated as a genre of its own\, but the natural world belongs in every story\, essay\, or poem. Move beyond viewing nature as a backdrop\, and weave it meaningfully into your writing.\n\n\n\nFor All GenresIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nDiscover what happens when we stop treating nature as scenery and begin to recognize it as an active presence in our narratives\, woven into every story we tell. Through a selection of historical and contemporary readings\, we’ll look at the many ways writers have engaged with the living world and consider how those approaches can enrich our own work. \n\n\n\nTogether\, we’ll explore the idea of de-othering nature and its implications for our writing\, from setting and imagery to metaphor\, character\, and point of view. Through lecture\, close reading\, and a generative writing exercise\, you’ll experiment with new ways of bringing the natural world onto the page—not simply as background\, but as a vital part of the work itself. \n\n\n\nWhether you write fiction\, nonfiction\, or poetry\, you’ll leave with practical techniques for creating more vivid and immersive landscapes\, a deeper awareness of the relationships between people and place\, and fresh inspiration for your creative practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how writers across time have represented the natural world\, from historical texts to contemporary voices reshaping the genre\n\n\n\nREIMAGINE nature’s role in your work and how de-othering the environment can transform your imagery\, figurative language\, and sense of place\n\n\n\nSTRENGTHEN your craft with tools for creating rich\, memorable landscapes \n\n\n\nINTEGRATE environmental awareness into your creative practices\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who… \n\n\n\n\nstruggle with settings and world-building\n\n\n\nwant to explore a new way of writing from a new point of view \n\n\n\nwrite about the natural world but don’t want to be pigeonholed as “nature writers”\n\n\n\nare garden-obsessed\, dirt-under-the-fingernails\, seed-catalog-collecting\, hiking-boot-wearing aficionados who wonder what else there is to write about\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA high-energy teacher noted for deep historical dives and technical side quests that always bring more understanding\, Megan Baxter has won numerous national awards\, including a Pushcart Prize. Her essay collection\, Twenty Square Feet of Skin\, was longlisted for the 2024 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.  \n\n\n\nMegan has published three books of creative nonfiction and is currently writing short stories and novels. Her short story collection ‘The Off-Season’ debuts in Spring 2027 from Jada Ibis Press. She lives in New Hampshire\, where she runs her own small farm and teaches creative writing through online courses and lessons. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/nature-writing-reimagined/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/baxter.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T235959 DTSTAMP:20260814T155427Z CREATED:20260724T160435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260814T155427Z UID:10000140-1785542400-1788220799@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:August REPLAY | The Ideal Sentence: Your Voice\, Your Tone\, Your Pace DESCRIPTION:Every beginning sets a tone\, establishes a voice\, and signals the quality of the language that is to come. Your beginning is one of your most important writing choices—learn to make it powerful.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES: VIDEO\, CHAT\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT \n\n\n\nFor All Genres \n\n\n\nWill that language be complex and tangled? Plain-spoken? Vanilla? Lavender? Will it zing like jazz or sing like a lullabye? Will it feel lethargic\, or will it clop\, or will it swashbuckle? \n\n\n\nIt’s always time to think about sentences—to explore the ways they work (and sometimes don’t)\, the ways we bend them to get closer to the truth\, and the ways we work on patterns and rhythms so that the pages remain alive.  \n\n\n\nProse from Hilton Als\, Michael Ondaatje\, Jean-Dominique Bauby\, Jia Tolentino\, Annie Dillard\, Olivia Laing\, Carmen Machado\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and Mark Richard will inspire us and lead our way. \n\n\n\nExercises presented will be focused on voice\, tone\, mood\, and pace. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nREFINE your writing voices\n\n\n\nEXPERIMENT with mood\, tone\, and pace\n\n\n\nDEVELOP powerful new beginnings\n\n\n\nCREATE a better understanding of your writerly strengths\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who:\n\n\n\n\nare intent on capturing the attention of agents\, editors\, and readers.  \n\n\n\nare keen on perfecting their work.\n\n\n\nwish to build more dimension into their writing.\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about sentence craft and explore their writing voice.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe live event happened in May 2025.ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of our favorite presenters\, BETH KEPHART\, is the award-winning writer of memoir\, children’s books\, young adult novels\, and craft books. She is also a paper artist. Her new book\, her first novel for adults\, is Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story. Please join her Substack journey at The Hush and the Howl. More at bethkephartbooks.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/the-ideal-sentence-2/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Event-Template-1-copy-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T163000 DTSTAMP:20260730T144018Z CREATED:20260707T153643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T144018Z UID:10000135-1785942000-1785947400@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Worth 1000 Words: Writing the Image+Text Essay DESCRIPTION:Sometimes words aren’t enough. Discover how photos\, documents\, original artwork\, and other visual elements can deepen\, complicate\, and illuminate your creative nonfiction.\n\n\n\nFor creative nonfiction\, including hybrid & experimentalIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nFrom family photos\, maps\, and diagrams to drawings\, erasures\, and collages\, authors\, artists\, and publishers are finding new ways to present mixed media texts that combine words and visual elements. Whether you’ve already started using images or are curious about how images could enrich your writing process and practice\, this webinar is for you. \n\n\n\nFrom brainstorming and generating to the printed page\, images can add depth and nuance to your writing practice and finished drafts. We’ll look at striking examples of hybrid and mixed media essays\, and talk through not only the whys but also the hows—including technical and conceptual considerations (‘Do I need Photoshop?’ ‘What does ‘print ready’ mean?’ ‘Does it count as Fair Use if I only use a piece of someone else’s work?’ You’ll leave with inspiration and actionable ideas for your own visual + text essays. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN different uses for images in both brainstorming and writing essays\n\n\n\nGET an overview of practical considerations\, such as hardware and software\, publication readiness\, and permissions for images that aren’t your own\n\n\n\nBE INSPIRED by image+text prompts and a roundup of resources\n\n\n\nDISCOVER image + text work from a great reading list\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who… \n\n\n\n\nwant to explore hybrid writing\, collage\, or experimental essays\n\n\n\nenjoy hands-on brainstorming techniques (collage is great for that!)\n\n\n\nare already experimenting with images and want to learn how to get them published\n\n\n\nhave a visual art practice or passion they want to combine with their writing practice\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKnown for packing her webinars with deep knowledge\, actionable information\, and fun facts\, Chelsea Biondolillo is a collage artist and the author of The Skinned Bird: Essays and two prose chapbooks\, Ologies and #Lovesong.  \n\n\n\nHer essays have been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016\, The Lyric Essay as Resistance\, How We Talk to One Another: An Essay Daily Reader and is forthcoming in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay.  \n\n\n\nChelsea’s paper and mixed media collages have been shown in Oregon\, Washington\, and New York. Her image and text essay\, “Weeds” was the winner of CRAFT Literary’s inaugural hybrid writing contest. She has a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA from the University of Wyoming. She currently lives in Eugene\, Oregon. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/worth-1000-words/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MASTER-Event-Templates-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260812T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260812T163000 DTSTAMP:20260806T161037Z CREATED:20260717T011254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260806T161037Z UID:10000136-1786546800-1786552200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Writing That Breaks the Rules: 10 Craft “Laws” You Can Defy DESCRIPTION:Every genre has its sacred rules. Learn what they actually protect — so you can break them with confidence.\n\n\n\nFor writers at all stages\, in all genresIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nEvery writer collects a list of commandments. Show\, don’t tell. Don’t start a scene with dialogue. One point-of-view per scene. Search and destroy all adverbs. Memoir must be told in the first person. These rules are repeated in workshops and webinars until we think they’re all true\, all the time\, but most of them are shorthand for a much more useful question: Am I making the best craft choices for readers to experience these words as I intend? \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, Allison K Williams (author of Seven Drafts and editor of NYT bestselling memoirs and novels) debunks the “rules” writers hear most often in workshops\, craft classes\, and query guidance and unpacks the real craft principle underneath each one. You’ll learn which rules are structural (break them\, and the story stops working) and which are stylistic conventions (break them deliberately\, and readers barely notice—or love you for it). We’ll use examples from published books that defy every dictum on this list and succeed anyway\, plus a clear-eyed look at when breaking a rule reads as “bold choice” versus “rookie mistake.” \n\n\n\nYou’ll leave knowing exactly which rules support the writing  you want to do—and which ones were never really rules at all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the difference between structural craft principles and stylistic conventions\n\n\n\nLEARN why POV discipline\, tense consistency\, and dialogue-opening “rules” exist—and what actually breaks when you ignore them\n\n\n\nEXAMINE notable published novels\, essays and memoirs that violate these rules on purpose\, and why they work\n\n\n\nWALK AWAY with a framework for deciding\, scene by scene\, when a “rule” is serving your story and when it’s safe to ignore—or gleefully defy\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who… \n\n\n\n\nkeep getting the same craft note in workshop and want to understand why\, not just fix it\n\n\n\nhave gotten craft feedback that doesn’t resonate or feels just plain wrong\n\n\n\nare drafting memoir\, YA\, or genre fiction and want to know which conventions their category actually enforces (and what to do if you’re not going to play along)\n\n\n\nhave a bold structural choice in mind and want to pressure-test it before committing\n\n\n\nare tired of contradictory advice and want one clear-eyed pass through the “rules” that matter\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\nSharp\, funny\, and genuinely useful from the first five minutes\, Allison K Williams is the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from First Draft to Book Deal and Managing Editor of the Brevity Blog. She teaches memoir and novel craft through Rebirth Your Writing\, leads retreats from Maine to Morocco to the middle of the Atlantic\, and has a well-earned reputation for advice that improves your pages the same day you hear it.  \n\n\n\nAllison holds an MFA from Western Michigan University\, and her own work has appeared in The New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, and Brevity (the magazine) as well as on NPR\, The Moth\, Snap Judgement\, and CBC-Canada. She is the co-producer of CRAFT TALKS and founder of The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/writing-that-breaks-the-rules/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Event-Template-1-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T163000 DTSTAMP:20260812T155705Z CREATED:20260717T012659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T155705Z UID:10000137-1787151600-1787157000@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Your Words\, Your Readers: Building a Substack That Lasts DESCRIPTION:What separates a thriving newsletter from one that fizzles out after three posts? A best-selling Substack founder has answers you can use.\n\n\n\nFor publicity/platform-buildingIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nIn recent years\, many writers have turned to Substack and other newsletter platforms as a way to explore niche interests\, publish creative work\, and bypass gatekeepers to connect directly with readers. Newsletters in all formats can help writers grow an audience\, gain craft confidence\, and build a publicity platform to support publishing their books\, public speaking\, and teaching careers.  \n\n\n\nIn this session\, we will start from the beginning and look at how to create a newsletter for anyone eager to begin. We’ll address important and often-overlooked areas like the Substack name\, About section\, and style. We’ll also look at common questions: How often should you post? How long should your posts be? What should you write about (and what if you change your mind)? How do you sustain momentum beyond the first few months? Finally\, we’ll discuss how to gain readers and continue growing your audience over time. \n\n\n\nNote: While this webinar will include technical elements specific to Substack\, the underlying principles of newsletter set-up\, frequency\, audience awareness\, and platform growth will apply to any newsletter or email-sending platform. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW to start a Substack and what pitfalls to avoid\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND best strategies for maintaining a newsletter over the long haul\n\n\n\nSTRATEGIZE how to grow readership and build a platform\n\n\n\nGET INSPIRED to launch a Substack and connect directly with readers\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who… \n\n\n\n\nhave a Substack (or other type of newsletter) but feel stagnant\n\n\n\nwant to learn whether or not to launch a newsletter (and are curious about pros and cons)\n\n\n\nare excited about their newsletter and want to keep growing it\n\n\n\nare overwhelmed by the prospect of a newsletter and want to see if it’s the right fit for their own platform\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA down-to-earth\, practical\, and encouraging teacher\, Becky Tuch is the founder of Lit Mag News\, a bestselling Substack dedicated to demystifying the world of literary magazines. Lit Mag News has over 17\,000 subscribers and has been listed in Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites for Writers. The leading expert in understanding\, assessing\, and submitting to literary magazines\, Becky is noted for her generous sharing of knowledge and accessible\, honest information for writers at all stages of their publication process.  \n\n\n\nBecky’s short fiction has been honored with a MacDowell fellowship and first place in Moment Magazine’s Karma Foundation Fiction Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in STORY Magazine\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, Gulf Coast\, Best of the Net\, and elsewhere. She has taught newsletter writing and fiction writing to kids\, teens\, and adults throughout the country. She lives with her family in Philadelphia\, PA. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/your-words-your-readers/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MASTER-Event-Templates-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260825T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260825T140000 DTSTAMP:20260819T174922Z CREATED:20260813T214023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T174922Z UID:10000146-1787662800-1787666400@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Build an Author Marketing Plan that Works for You with Rachel Thompson DESCRIPTION:Do you need to be everything\, everywhere\, all at once\, to market your book? \n\n\n\nNo. You need a plan that fits your book\, your readers\, your budget\, your time\, and your tolerance for social media nonsense. \n\n\n\nMost authors don’t fail at marketing because they didn’t try hard enough—they fail because they tried to do everything at once\, on every platform\, without knowing how to assess what’s working. Rachel Thompson of BadRedhead Media has spent more than 17 years helping authors build marketing plans that don’t rely on gimmicks\, magic formulas\, or dancing on TikTok. \n\n\n\nLearn what to figure out before you start marketing at all: who your readers actually are\, what realistic goals look like\, and how to choose activities that match your time and budget. We’ll dig into DIY-versus-hire-a-pro—what’s worth learning yourself and what’s worth paying someone else to handle?—and how to tell whether your marketing is moving the needle. Rachel’s also an expert on why and how to build Substack into your author platform. \n\n\n\nBring your questions and your book marketing frustrations. Rachel’s heard them all—and probably lived most of them. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY AUGUST 25 at 1PM EASTERN / 10AM PACIFIC – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Thompson is the founder of BadRedhead Media\, LLC (est. 2011)\, where she creates customized social media\, book marketing\, branding\, Substack\, and visibility campaigns for authors. Drawing on more than 17 years of sales\, marketing\, and training experience\, Rachel helps writers build their platforms\, connect with readers\, and promote their work without gimmicks. \n\n\n\nRachel’s books include Broken Pieces\, Broken Places\, Broken People\, The BadRedhead Media 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge\, BadRedhead Media’s How to Best Optimize Blog Posts for SEO\, a branding guide\, and two humor books. Her books have earned multiple awards and reached No. 1 on several Amazon lists—which she readily admits is much more exciting than cleaning the litter box. \n\n\n\nRachel shares practical marketing guidance with more than 14\,000 followers on Substack\, where she writes weekly about book marketing\, social media\, building your Substack/newsletter\, publishing\, and the realities of building an author platform. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for a practical\, no-nonsense hour on marketing your book without losing your mind. \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-author-marketing/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TWB-logo-2023-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260826T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260826T161500 DTSTAMP:20260819T221956Z CREATED:20260721T144532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T221956Z UID:10000142-1787756400-1787760900@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Mastering Braided Memoirs: How to Structure Multiple Dramatic Threads DESCRIPTION:Learn the craft techniques that transform separate threads into a rich\, seamless narrative that surprises\, moves\, and resonates with readers. \n\n\n\nFor memoir and nonfictionIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nThe braided memoir has become one of the most exciting and sought-after forms in contemporary nonfiction—but weaving multiple narrative threads into a compelling whole requires far more than alternating between story lines. How can you transform fragments\, obsessions\, research\, memory\, and reflection into a unified work that delivers both emotional impact and a high level of reader engagement? \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we explore the hidden architecture that makes braided memoirs resonate. Learn how to choose strands that deepen one another\, create momentum across timelines\, withhold and reveal information strategically\, and build a deeply satisfying narrative arc from seemingly disparate materials.  \n\n\n\nWhether you’re simply curious about the form\, beginning a braided essay or book-length project\, or struggling to master the form\, you’ll leave with new tools for creating a memoir with confidence and purpose\, whose threads are stronger together than apart. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the three powerful reasons to use this exciting—but tricky—form\n\n\n\nSELECT themes that connect multiple narrative strands\n\n\n\nLEARN to MAP the movement between each narrative beat\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the braider’s triple threat: repetition\, juxtaposition\, and variation\n\n\n\nAVOID common pitfalls\n\n\n\nDISCOVER revision techniques that strengthen connections between strands\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who… \n\n\n\n\nare new memoirists needing a flexible\, accessible way to begin\n\n\n\nwant to deepen their structural and thematic control of memoir \n\n\n\nfeel ready to break out of linear storytelling and try something more dynamic \n\n\n\nare struggling to connect disparate memories\, themes\, or materials into a cohesive narrative\n\n\n\nwant to strengthen structure\, control\, and impact in their memoir\n\n\n\nseek to weave personal experience with research\, reflection\, or cultural context\n\n\n\nwant to turn vivid fragments into a finished essay or book\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 has been teaching for over thirty years\, and she doesn’t teach like anyone else. Her classes are innovative and groundbreaking\, and students describe them as fun\, lively\, and warm—the kind of workshop where you laugh out loud and walk away having learned an enormous amount.  \n\n\n\nShe is the author of You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know\, a popular memoir about family and face blindness. An Oprah Book-of-the-Month Club selection and Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review\, the award-winning book was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered\, Dick Gordon’s The Story\, Dateline\, The Today Show\, and Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos. Her essays appear in The New York Times\, The Sun\, Reader’s Digest\, Good Housekeeping\, The Best American Essays\, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of four books on the craft of writing\, including The Practice of Creative Writing. \n\n\n\nHer fifth collection of poetry\, Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators\, is just out from Lynx House Press. Currently\, she is a member of the MFA faculty at the University of South Florida\, where she won the university’s highest teaching award. She also offers in-person workshops and private lessons for writers at all levels. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/mastering-braided-memoirs/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MASTER-Event-Templates-1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T160000 DTSTAMP:20260820T161538Z CREATED:20260720T131515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T161538Z UID:10000138-1788008400-1788019200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Beyond the Frame: How Surrealist Imagery Can Unblock Your Writing DESCRIPTION:When words fail\, images can unlock secrets. Surprise the stuck places in your manuscript by looking at them anew. \n\n\n\nFor All Writers \n\n\n\nSometimes the most effective way through a writing challenge is without words.  \n\n\n\nIn both writing and visual art\, what’s beyond the page or the frame often holds the key. Finding that hidden context can help a lifeless scene find its heartbeat. Images\, photographs\, illustrations\, even collages\, can help us see our stories differently. Surrealist imagery is particularly effective because it’s already characterized by the juxtaposition of unexpected elements. \n\n\n\nWe’ll begin with quick-start generative prompts to help you identify an area in your writing to focus on during our time together. Then\, we’ll look at traditional images and use them to help unlock a challenging place in your manuscript. Finally\, we’ll progress to surrealist photographs\, paintings\, and collages to see your own work and themes through fresh lenses.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll also discuss ways the qualities of surrealism can inform our writing\, regardless of genre\, and practice using “prepositional questions” to explore what’s beyond\, above\, below\, underneath\, inside\, before\, and after your scene to view your stuck place with curiosity and allow for unexpected connections. \n\n\n\nIf you’re currently struggling with an aspect of a work-in-progress\, feel free to bring that\, but it’s not required to benefit from the tools and techniques of the seminar. After the class\, you’ll receive the seminar recording and the slide deck with all the images and prompts used during our time together. \n\n\n\nAll levels and all genres are welcome. Please be prepared to write. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this interactive three-hour live seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how visual imagery can deepen your writing\n\n\n\nLEARN key tenets of surrealism and apply them to a writing challenge\n\n\n\nGENERATE new portals into an existing piece of writing\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW unexpected visual arrangements open a door to the unconscious\n\n\n\nUSE key prepositional questions to view your writing differently\n\n\n\nSURPRISE yourself by finding hidden connections in your work\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\ncurious about new ways to deepen their writing\n\n\n\ninterested in the connection between visual and literary arts\n\n\n\nstruggling with a difficult part of their manuscript\n\n\n\nwho are open to unconventional portals to the imagination\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\nFunny\, kind\, and direct\, Laraine Herring is a popular CRAFT TALKS presenter and one of our strongest voices on deeply personal writing that powerfully connects with readers. \n\n\n\nLaraine’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. A retired professor of creative writing and psychology\, Lariane has worked with writers for thirty years.  \n\n\n\nShe’s also an illustrator and a grief counselor and the 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. Laraine’s work has appeared in The New York Times\, Tiferet\, The Rumpus\, The Manifest-Station\, and many more. 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.” \n\n\n\n— Meg Weber\, author of A Year of Mr. Lucky (Sincyr Publishing) \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!” \n\n\n\n— Naomi Kaplan \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.” \n\n\n\n— Janine Weyers \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.” \n\n\n\n— Grace Welker \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.” \n\n\n\n— Janet Burruel \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/beyond-the-frame/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/MASTER-Event-Templates-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260904T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260904T161500 DTSTAMP:20260826T234410Z CREATED:20260803T145116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T234410Z UID:10000143-1788534000-1788538500@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Power Your Memoir with Mystery: How Curiosity Fuels Craft DESCRIPTION:The fuel that runs the engine of all good writing is our uncertainty…and the true curiosity of the writer.\n\n\n\nFor memoir and nonfictionIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nToo often\, writers of true stories lock in early on what they know—times\, places\, apparent facts—and what results is a flat retelling of the past. But memoir is essentially an act of discovery. As writers\, we must enter our work filled with questions and true uncertainty\, or we risk pushing the story where we think it should go rather than where it needs to be. As acclaimed memoirist Abigail Thomas warns\, “If your memoir ends where you thought it was going to end\, you aren’t doing it right.”The engine of good writing is fueled by the curiosity of the writer\, the process of thinking aloud on the page\, and uncovering what we didn’t know the morning we sat down to begin our memoir or story.  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will look at how other writers have used their uncertainty as fuel for the story\, how to locate your own questions\, and how reconnecting with what you don’t know can revive a stalled project. There will also be prompts and time for questions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nSEE how questions within your process allow for discovery and surprise\n\n\n\nLEARN strategies for incorporating “what you don’t know” into nonfiction\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND how questions and curiosity drive memoir\, nonfiction\, and even fiction\n\n\n\nENGAGE with a series of short prompts to find the questions in your own work \n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who… \n\n\n\n\nat the beginning stages of a memoir or nonfiction project\n\n\n\nwho feel stalled on their current essay\, story or book\n\n\n\nwith a story they want to tell\, who feel unsure why readers will be interested enough to read it\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nPreviously offered August 2023 \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 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 the founding editor of Brevity\, the preeminent journal of flash nonfiction\, and an editor at The Brevity Blog. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/curiosity-fuels-craft/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Moore.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260905T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T160000 DTSTAMP:20260826T234304Z CREATED:20260720T134114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T234304Z UID:10000139-1788616800-1789228800@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Writing Big Feelings: The Peculiar Art of Evoking Emotions DESCRIPTION:Grief on the page doesn’t guarantee grief in the reader. Learn to show how your character feels and make the reader feel it\, too.\n\n\n\nLive On Zoom | Saturdays\, September 5 & 12\, 2026 | 2-4 pm EasternFor Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Writers \n\n\n\nAs fiction and non-fiction writers\, we often want to evoke agony on the page—grief\, misery\, blinding fury. Yet we get feedback: “What is the narrator feeling?” \n\n\n\nOver two sessions\, we’ll examine how we\, as writers\, can do two separate things: \n\n\n\n\nEvoke emotions within the READER: sorrow\, compassion\, and empathy \n\n\n\nEffectively show how the point-of-view character/narrator is feeling\n\n\n\n\nThese two jobs are often conflated; people assume if they describe how a character is feeling\, readers will also feel those feelings. Alas\, it’s not that simple. \n\n\n\nWe’ll focus on why it’s not just important to render the feelings themselves and how we can’t intentionally manipulate the reader with forced or pushed emotions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this insightful two-day course\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISTINGUISH between evoking emotion in the reader and describing what a character feels—and learn why conflating the two weakens your work\n\n\n\nDIAGNOSE the “what is the narrator feeling?” note and understand what’s actually missing from the page\n\n\n\nPRACTICE techniques for rendering emotion through action\, image\, and subtext \n\n\n\nRECOGNIZE where emotional writing turns maudlin or overwrought—and how to pull back before you lose the reader\n\n\n\nAPPLY these techniques to a piece of your own work across two sessions\, with feedback for a selection of students on the second day\n\n\n\n\nSchedule…\n\n\n\nDay One—We start with the core distinction the whole workshop builds on: showing emotion versus evoking it. You’ll get a set of practical tips for writing feelings without naming them\, look at examples from published work\, and break into small groups to hunt for more on your own. Then a short in-class prompt—write an intense moment with the feelings stripped out—followed by open Q&A. \n\n\n\nHomework: Find two pages of your own work centered on a character or narrator feeling a big emotion. Revise so the emotion rises naturally from the material rather than being pushed onto the reader. (Extra credit for big feelings that never tip into maudlin!) \n\n\n\nSubmit 300–400 words of revised work as a Word document to the shared Google Drive by September 10th\, 11pm EDT (more details to come). \n\n\n\nDay Two—This session is yours. We’ll screen-share as many submissions as time allows\, read them aloud\, and workshop each one with about 10 minutes of group discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar is ideal for intermediate writers wrestling with intense material that can feel overwhelming.\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\nDirect\, funny\, and unsentimental\, Peter Mountford is a warm and encouraging teacher. He’s the author of the novels A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism (Washington State Book Award)\, The Dismal Science (NYT editor’s choice)\, and his latest\, a collection of short stories\, Detonator (now out from Four Way Books). His work has appeared in the New York Times (Modern Love)\, Paris Review\, Southern Review\, The Atlantic\, The Sun\, Ploughshares\, and Guernica. He teaches at the University of Nevada\, Reno at Lake Tahoe’s MFA\, and through Mountford Writing. \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“I’m so grateful to Peter—he’s that perfect combination of sweet and sour\, candid but never cruel\, encouraging but never ever full of shit.” – Sharon Schindel (NYT\, Washington Post) \n\n\n\n“Peter has an unerring sense of a story’s center of gravity and the structure that best suits the material. Peter’s expertise & generosity have been instrumental in my writing journey. I can’t recommend him highly enough.” –  Hannah C. \n\n\n\n“Peter knows how to make a story work & how to make it publishable. ”- Jeremy S.  \n\n\n\n“In a star rating\, he’d get a full 5 from me.”- Robin R.“I left class seeing how much more I need to write & read and how much more there is to learn\, which is humbling and exciting. ”- Michael B. \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/writing-big-feelings/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MASTER-Event-Templates-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T163000 DTSTAMP:20260902T215452Z CREATED:20260812T152818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T215452Z UID:10000145-1788966000-1788971400@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Writing the Senses: Transform Your Prose with Vivid Descriptions DESCRIPTION:Specific sensory details transform “good” writing to unforgettable. Through guided meditations on all five senses\, practice capturing the precise\, vivid observations that bring prose to life.\n\n\n\nFor Fiction\, Nonfiction\, Memoir\, and PoetryIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nLush\, descriptive writing is like magic. Sensory moments draw readers in to let them experience another life entirely. In this 90-minute session\, award-winning author and writing coach April Dávila guides writers through a series of meditations\, followed by writing exercises designed to help you move past tired clichés and find the details that are genuinely\, uniquely yours. \n\n\n\nOften\, exploring sensory details surprises us\, allowing us to stop focusing on “perfect” prose and lean into our own\, and our characters’\, specific experience. Write a handful of descriptive lines you’ll actually want to use—and confidence in how to choose those lines carefully to avoid verbosity in your finished work. \n\n\n\nWriters at all skill levels are welcome. Bring a work-in-progress or a blank page\, and leave with fresh material and new ways of expressing your ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nSHARPEN your ability to capture specific\, vivid details that pull readers into your world\n\n\n\nMOVE through guided meditations on sight\, sound\, touch\, smell\, and taste\n\n\n\nSILENCE your inner critic and get words on the page without second-guessing every line\n\n\n\nGENERATE new material you can pull directly into your stories\, essays\, or poems\n\n\n\nGAIN a fresh approach to descriptive writing\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers…\n\n\n\n\nwhose prose feels flat or overly visual\, relying too heavily on sight and missing the other four senses\n\n\n\nwho find themselves reaching for the same tired phrases and want to develop a more original\, specific voice\n\n\n\nworking on any project (fiction\, memoir\, poetry\, or essay) who want fresh material and new ways into their writing\n\n\n\nwho tend to rush past description and want to slow down and pay closer attention to the world of their story\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\nApril Dávila is an award-winning\, traditionally published novelist and an experienced writing coach. A warm\, straightforward teacher\, April’s unique approach combines the practical tools of writing with the transformative power of mindfulness\, empowering writers to quiet their inner critics and make meaningful progress on their work. A passionate advocate for creative expression\, April guides aspiring authors in overcoming blocks and building sustainable writing habits. Her first nonfiction book\, Sit Write Here: 6 Mindfulness Practices to Help You Write More and Suffer Less\, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/writing-the-senses/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MASTER-Event-Templates-2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T163000 DTSTAMP:20260909T231859Z CREATED:20260821T172243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260909T231859Z UID:10000148-1789570800-1789576200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Choose Your Best Publishing Path: Balancing Dollars and Sense DESCRIPTION:How do books land on shelves? And what publishing path fits your time\, budget\, and expectations? \n\n\n\nFor full-length fiction\, nonfiction and memoir\, including collectionsIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWith over four million new titles for sale last year\, publishing is a multibillion-dollar business. Costs\, time\, and maintaining control over the process are critical elements in an author’s decision\, and every writer has their own set of must-haves and non-negotiables. From acquisition to sales to your ideal readers\, it’s vital to educate yourself even before you finish the book. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of traditional\, hybrid\, and self-publishing. We’ll tackle the financial costs and resources required for each and learn from established authors what they enjoy most (and least) about their chosen path. You’ll leave with information to determine which option is the best fit not only for your work but also to meet your own goals and expectations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND traditional\, hybrid\, and self-publishing—and what each actually costs in time\, money\, and creative control\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY which publishing path best aligns with your goals\, your book\, and your non-negotiables\n\n\n\nHEAR firsthand from established authors about what they wish they had known before choosing their publishing route\n\n\n\nGAIN the vocabulary and framework to ask the right questions—of agents\, publishers\, hybrid presses\, and yourself\n\n\n\nBUILD a realistic roadmap for one of the most important decisions of your writing life\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is best for new-to-publishing writers \n\n\n\n\nwho are indecisive of their publishing path\n\n\n\nwho are ready to publish but require more info\n\n\n\ninterested in the book publishing business\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA buoyant\, high-energy teacher who motivates writers to “stick with it\,” Kristin Owens\, PhD\, is an award-winning educator and writer living in oxygen-deprived Colorado. 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 informative and entertaining bite-sized pieces. She can usually be found (playing and working) onboard a cruise ship. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/choose-your-best-path/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MASTER-Event-Templates-2-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260920T153000 DTSTAMP:20260912T174221Z CREATED:20260814T161705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260912T174221Z UID:10000147-1789826400-1789918200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Sharpen Your Prose: How to Be Your Own Editor DESCRIPTION:Writers don’t always have the luxury of a great editor. But we can teach ourselves to examine our own prose through an editor’s lens.\n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturday & Sunday\, September 19-20\, 2026 | 2-3:30pm EDTFor Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Writers \n\n\n\nFor successful authors\, “all writing is rewriting.” Most of the best work we’ll ever do happens not in first drafts but through the painstaking process of revision. But what exactly is revision? How do we approach what can feel like an intimidating and endless process? How can we truly make our drafts better (and not just different)? And where do we turn for feedback when we’re writing on our own? \n\n\n\nRather than focusing on big-picture or developmental editing\, this class will focus on line-level techniques that reliably improve any piece of writing. We’ll discuss what makes individual sentences more impactful\, how to trim bloated paragraphs\, and the keys to maintaining a sense of immediacy that holds readers’ attention. Together\, we’ll study examples of both first-draft writing and polished\, published pieces\, naming the differences and working out how to move from point A to point B. We’ll learn how to create our own feedback\, moving from “author” to “editor” and back again. \n\n\n\nBy studying the work of others\, we’ll begin seeing our own writing more objectively. After our first class\, each participant will work on revising their own sentences\, practicing new techniques. By the end of our second class\, students will have acquired a set of revision practices that can be applied to any work-in-progress.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this insightful weekend course\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN techniques to view your writing more objectively\n\n\n\nREAD examples of sharp prose and consider how they were revised\n\n\n\nPRACTICE revising your own work\n\n\n\nDISCOVER a set of revision practices you can apply to any work-in-progress\n\n\n\n\nSchedule…\n\n\n\nSaturday—We’ll start with the core skill of condensing prose: mediating language\, shaping a true scene\, and revising toward stronger verbs. You’ll read past student work and discuss how to tighten it\, then turn to examples of sharp professional prose to see these techniques in action. \n\n\n\nAs a group\, we’ll build a working list of line-level revision techniques you can apply to your own writing. \n\n\n\nHomework: Revise an excerpt of your own work using the techniques from class. \n\n\n\nSunday—We’ll share revisions with the group and discuss what’s working and what could go further. You’ll gain new insight into your own editing by seeing others in action.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\ncan crank out a first draft but don’t know how to revise\n\n\n\nare working on their own without consistent feedback\n\n\n\nworry their sentences or page count may be bloated\n\n\n\nwant to learn to think like an editor\n\n\n\nwant to write sharper\, tighter prose to capture the attention of readers\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the final session. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn encouraging\, warm\, and deeply knowledgeable instructor\, Lindsey Deloach Jones holds a BA and MA in English and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. She has taught creative writing at Clemson University and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities and served as Editor of Emrys Journal and Edible Upcountry. \n\n\n\nLindsey’s essays have been published in HuffPost\, HuffPost Parenting\, Split Lip\, Under the Gum Tree\, Motherwell\, Paste\, South Carolina Review\, and Salvation South\, among others. She is a recipient of the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize\, and an essay nominated by Pigeon Pages was recently a finalist for Best of the Net.  \n\n\n\nLindsey currently teaches writing online and in-person via WRITESHARE\, the writers’ network she co-founded in Upstate SC\, and for organizations such as Craft Talks. She is represented by Writers House. \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Lindsey is knowledgeable\, well-prepared\, and interacts well through the chat comments and questions\, so the presentation is more of a conversation. So important!” Anne P. \n\n\n\n“Lindsey is a very ‘user-friendly’ presenter. She takes such complex subjects and makes them accessible.” Laura R. \n\n\n\n“I loved her creative topic\, her examples\, and her presentation. She did a great job of involving the attendees even though it was a virtual session. (Hard to do!) ” Sherrie D. V. \n\n\n\n“Lindsey is so knowledgeable and articulate. I wish I could take her classes in person!” Melissa R. \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/sharpen-your-prose/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Jones.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260920T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T170000 DTSTAMP:20260827T165044Z CREATED:20260805T160402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T165044Z UID:10000144-1789916400-1791133200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:3-WEEK WORKSHOP | The Art of Facts: Using Research in Lyric Essays DESCRIPTION:“Lyric” essays are often poetic and personal—but they can do so much more! Extend the reach of your lyric essays with accurate\, effective research.\n\n\n\nOpen to 15 writers in creative nonfiction\, nonfiction and lyric essay \n\n\n\nLive On Zoom | Sundays\, September 20 – October 4\, 2026 | 3-5 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nFrom hermit crab to braided\, collage to fragmented\, lyric essays are having a big moment. They offer innovative and unexpected routes into the familiar territory of personal stories and reported essays. In this workshop\, we’ll look at several common essay forms and explore ways that research—including interviews and fieldwork—can enrich and invigorate your own lyric essays. \n\n\n\nIn the three weeks of this course we will talk\, read\, and write\, with multiple opportunities to share your progress and drafts for feedback. We’ll also discuss how veteran and emerging essayists can best work professionally with editors and fact-checkers\, plus tips and tricks on documenting sources. \n\n\n\nThis course will offer writers with a bit of experience in (or who are eager to explore) nonfiction or journalism a fun and engaging chance to experiment and add new tools to their practice\, all while drafting a flash lyric essay. There will be an opportunity to get written comments from the instructor\, and all participants will get a list of resources and further reading. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOver these three weeks\, you will …\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE a range of lyric essay styles\n\n\n\nDEVELOP your own list of possible essay topics\n\n\n\nPRACTICE effective techniques for incorporating researched elements\n\n\n\nGENERATE two drafts of a researched\, flash lyric essay\n\n\n\nPROVIDE & RECEIVE peer feedback\, and optional instructor-written comments\n\n\n\nLEARN tips and tricks for documenting sources and working with fact-checkers\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n\nWeek 1 – Intros\, notable examples\, idea-generating prompt\, sourcing discussion\, homework overview\n\n\n\nWeek 2 – Check-in\, feedback-generating prompt\, workshop of participant essay drafts\,\, assignment review\, Q&A\n\n\n\nWeek 3 – Check-in\, workshop of participant essay drafts\, fact-checking discussion\, open Q&A\, next steps in your researched lyric essay journeys\n\n\n\nOptional office hours 3–4pm EDT on Tues and 8–9pm EDT Thurs \n\n\n\n\nThis course is for writers who …\n\n\n\n\nwith some experience in one or more: reporting\, researching or essay writing; or who have a desire to explore these skills\n\n\n\nwho want to add compelling facts & reported elements to their flash\, lyric\, or experimental essays\n\n\n\nwho want to add lyric\, poetic\, or experimental elements to their reported essays\n\n\n\nwho enjoy experimenting with prompts and shorter essays\n\n\n\nlooking for brainstorming\, researching\, and fact-checking tools to add to their essay or reporting practice\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss a class? No worries\, replays will be available. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKnown for packing her courses with deep knowledge\, actionable information\, and fun facts\, Chelsea Biondolillo is a collage artist and the author of The Skinned Bird: Essays and two prose chapbooks\, Ologies and #Lovesong. \n\n\n\nHer essays have been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016\, The Lyric Essay as Resistance\, and How We Talk to One Another: An Essay Daily Reader and is forthcoming in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay. \n\n\n\nChelsea’s paper and mixed media collages have been shown in Oregon\, Washington\, and New York. Her image and text essay\, “Weeds” was the winner of CRAFT Literary’s inaugural hybrid writing contest. She has a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA from the University of Wyoming. She currently lives in Eugene\, Oregon. \n\n\n\nTestimonials from past students\n\n\n\n“I took an online workshop with Chelsea two years ago. As a fiction writer venturing into nonfiction\, I needed a lot of guidance\, and I got it. Chelsea’s lessons and feedback were immensely helpful to me. An essay I began in that class was later accepted by a well-known online magazine. I still go back to the material Chelsea provided as support when starting new projects. I can wholeheartedly recommend Chelsea as a mentor and teacher.” ~ L Doyle \n\n\n\n“I took Chelsea’s intensive flash nonfiction class and was deeply impressed by her commitment\, feedback\, and warm teaching style. The class was online\, but Chelsea managed to create a respectful and intellectually stimulating sense of community.” ~ J Zarankin \n\n\n\n“Chelsea Biondolillo is an incredibly talented teacher. I learned more from a 1-month intensive workshop with her than I did in semester-long courses with many of my MFA professors. From her close attention to my verbs to her insights on pacing to her overall reflections on the themes of my essays\, Chelsea really got what I was trying to do\, and then made it better. Chelsea is also a cheerleader\, and will go to the mat for you and your work. I can’t recommend her enough.” ~ B Johnston \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 first class\, you may request a refund (less a $25 processing fee).After class begins\, you may request a refund for the remaining value of the course (less a $25 processing fee). No credits or refunds will be available after the 1st class. \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\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/the-art-of-facts/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Workshops and Masterclasses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MASTER-Event-Templates.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260929T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260929T140000 DTSTAMP:20260920T191641Z CREATED:20260919T192851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260920T191641Z UID:10000157-1790686800-1790690400@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Writing Off-Limits: How Comedy Creates Powerful Work in Every Genre with Elissa Bassist DESCRIPTION:Do you have to be born funny to write funny?\n\n\n\nMost writers assume humor is a gift some people have and others don’t—and that it only belongs in comedy. But funny writing isn’t joke after joke after joke. It’s being vulnerable\, opinionated\, emotional\, and a little silly\, whether you’re writing a personal essay\, a novel\, or a query letter. \n\n\n\nHumor is a craft—and it’s built the same way any other kind of good writing is: through observation\, specificity\, honesty\, and revision. And good humor leavens the darkest personal essay\, sustains reader compassion in a memoir\, and makes novels sparkle on the page. \n\n\n\nElissa Bassist—author of the memoir Hysterical\, created and edited The Rumpus’s “Funny Women” column\, and has been a humor-writing teacher for two decades. She joins The Writers Bridge to talk about why infusing humor into your writing—even writing that isn’t “comedy”—makes it sharper\, more honest\, and more memorable. Elissa will share no-fail ways to make anything you write funnier (and just plain better)\, and how to find the joke in any topic\, including the ones that feel too boring or too off-limits to touch. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 29 at 1PM EASTERN / 10AM PACIFIC – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElissa Bassist is the author of the memoir Hysterical\, a semifinalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor. \n\n\n\nRoxane Gay called Hysterical “one of the most intelligent\, painful\, ridiculous\, awesome\, relevant things I’ve ever read\,” and Cheryl Strayed wrote that Bassist “wrote it like a motherfucker.” The memoir also earned a starred review from Library Journal and praise from Kirkus and Booklist for its fierce\, funny take on chronic pain\, medicine\, and the silencing of women’s voices. \n\n\n\nElissa has worked in media and publishing since 2007—as an editor\, a managing editor\, a TV and film writer’s assistant\, a producer\, a performer\, a speaker\, and a barista. Her writing has appeared in over 30 publications and anthologies\, and she’s taught for more than 20 writing programs\, including The New School\, 92NY\, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Her next book\, Inside Jokes: A Comedy and Creativity Guide for All Writers (co-written with Caitlin Kunkel)\, is out October 20th from Grand Central Publishing—a step-by-step guide to writing anything funnier\, from short humor to personal essays. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for a genuinely funny\, genuinely useful hour on writing with more humor—no matter what genre you write. \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 bestselling writing craft book is Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book. 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/comedy-elissa-bassist/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TWB-logo-2023-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T161500 DTSTAMP:20260908T201936Z CREATED:20260827T161412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260908T201936Z UID:10000149-1790780400-1790784900@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Getting Past "I": The Challenge of Writing in First-Person POV DESCRIPTION:Writing a compelling first-person narrator in your novel or memoir is far more challenging than it seems. Learn to recognize and avoid the pitfalls of your Point of View.\n\n\n\nFor All GenresIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWriting in first-person seems easy at first. After all\, how hard can it be to get inside just one character’s head and stay there? But from a craft perspective\, writing in first-person is a potential minefield. Building an interesting and dynamic world full of believable characters can be a craft challenge when the reader only sees that world through one set of eyes.  \n\n\n\nCommon first-person pitfalls involve an over-reliance on telling rather than showing; not using inner dialogue strategically to build conflict and tension; and accidentally switching out of first-person\, which can confuse the reader.  \n\n\n\nYet the first-person perspective is an exciting opportunity to explore your protagonist’s deepest secrets—whether a fictional character or from your own perspective—and drives and develops a sympathetic bond with the reader as they get to know your character from the inside.  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll examine what can go wrong and explore great examples of first-person done well. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDETERMINE the right Point of View for your story and genre\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW first-person works differently from other POVs\n\n\n\nANALYZE examples of first-person pitfalls\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY hallmarks of great first-person POV writing\n\n\n\nEXPLORE practical techniques to vary your writing style within a single narrator\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers…\n\n\n\n\nwriting a novel\, memoir\, or personal essay in first person who want to strengthen their craft\n\n\n\nworried their narrator sounds flat\, limited\, or overly self-focused\n\n\n\nstruggling with showing rather than telling from a single perspective\n\n\n\nwho want to build a rich\, believable world through one character’s eyes\n\n\n\nunsure whether first-person is the right POV choice for their story\n\n\n\nwho find themselves accidentally slipping out of first person mid-scene\n\n\n\nwho need models of first-person done exceptionally well\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy L. Bernstein shares her passion for writing craft and her deep knowledge in info-packed presentations with clear examples and plenty of time for Q&A!  \n\n\n\nAmy writes award-winning fiction and nonfiction that lets readers feel while making them think. As the author of six novels\, including Tent City\, and a book of inspiration for creatives called Wrangling the Doubt Monster\, Amy brings a compassionate and insightful voice to writers’ conferences around the country. A former journalist\, Amy also works as a book coach\, helping nonfiction authors craft compelling book proposals. She welcomes followers to her weekly Substack\, Doubt Monster\, which explores the agony and ecstasy of creativity. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/getting-past-i/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bernstein.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T143000 DTSTAMP:20260921T200051Z CREATED:20260828T131911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T200051Z UID:10000151-1791032400-1791037800@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Taste and See: Using Food So Readers Can Experience Your Stories DESCRIPTION:The date and time shown reflect the rescheduled date. \n\n\n\nA sensual medium\, food can serve as a metaphor to show\, not tell\, stories of belonging or exclusion\, joy or trauma\, passion or comfort. \n\n\n\nFor Food Writing\, Fiction\, and Creative NonfictionIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWho doesn’t love to eat? Culinary imagery is not just for food journalists or restaurant reviewers. Food is a metaphor and cultural touchstone\, and the flavors\, aromas\, and experiences of sharing meals can bring life to many other kinds of narratives\, bringing richness\, texture\, and sensory depth to scenes. \n\n\n\nIn this 90-minute webinar\, examine scenes of fiction and creative nonfiction that use descriptions of food in surprising ways. Then expand your toolkit by practicing using these techniques in your own storytelling. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nREAD fiction and creative nonfiction that use food in scenes\n\n\n\nEXAMINE what makes these examples resonate with readers\n\n\n\nTRY an exercise in unexpected ways to write about food\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how food can serve as metaphor to show\, not tell\, stories of belonging\, trauma\, and desire\n\n\n\nLEAVE with new techniques to bring sensory richness to your own narratives\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers…\n\n\n\n\nwrite fiction or creative nonfiction (essay or memoir)\n\n\n\nwant to learn food writing techniques that bring new sensory experiences to their stories\n\n\n\nwant to bridge food and literary writing\n\n\n\nare looking for fresh ways to use sensory detail \n\n\n\nare food lovers who want to bring their passion for eating and cooking to the page\n\n\n\nare writing about family\, memory\, identity\, or place and want a new entry point\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA conversational speaker whose love of food and writing shine through\, Grace Hwang Lynch is a journalist\, essayist\, and community builder with an eye for Asian American culture and food. Her work can be found on outlets including Tin House\, Catapult\, and NPR and her food memoir How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family is coming in January 2027. Follow her on Instagram @gracehwanglynch or at gracehwanglynch.com. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/taste-and-see/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MASTER-Event-Templates-2-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T160000 DTSTAMP:20260904T184002Z CREATED:20260904T183007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T184002Z UID:10000153-1791385200-1791388800@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | What Platform Is For: How Visibility Supports Your Work (Not the Other Way Around) DESCRIPTION:A strong platform is a tool that helps you\, your book\, and your work reach the right people. Learn what true visibility makes possible so you can stop doing all the things and choose what moves you forward.\n\n\n\nNonfiction-focused\, but applicable across genres.Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWriters are told they need a platform but rarely know what it’s actually for. This leads to a lot of posting\, emailing\, pitching\, and “showing up” without a clear reason behind the effort. The result is noise\, scattered energy\, lost writing time\, and the nagging question: How’s this going to pay off? \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, Allison Lane reframes visibility as a tool that supports your book\, your work\, and your next opportunity. You’ll learn how platform works inside the publishing ecosystem\, why visibility needs a purpose\, and how to make clearer choices about where and how to show up. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDEFINE what visibility could make possible for you and your writing\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND what platform actually is in publishing and what it’s not\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the difference between useful visibility and scattered activity\n\n\n\nCHOOSE platform-building efforts that support your real goals\, capacity\, and next steps\n\n\n\nLEARN how to start from the end state before deciding where to show up\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is best for intermediate and advanced writers who…\n\n\n\n\nhave heard they need a platform but aren’t sure what it’s supposed to do\n\n\n\nare posting\, emailing\, pitching\, or showing up online\, but struggle to connect those efforts to their larger goal\n\n\n\nare preparing to query agents and publishers\n\n\n\nwant to launch their book or build awareness about an already-out-there book\n\n\n\nwant to make smarter choices about where to spend their time and energy\n\n\n\nare overwhelmed by social media\, newsletters\, podcasts\, speaking\, and all the other “platform” advice\n\n\n\nwant their visibility to support their book\, their work\, and their real life\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClear and energetic\, motivating and sincere\, Allison Lane gives accessible advice that truly moves the needle—and she’s funny! As a strategic publishing and visibility advisor\, Allison helps women turn their expertise\, perspective\, and hard-earned reputation into visible authority\, market-ready books\, and bigger opportunities.  \n\n\n\nAllison helps women clarify what they want to be known for\, develop book ideas that can stand up in the marketplace\, and build visibility that makes people find and trust them\, recommend them\, publish them\, book them\, and hire them. She also hosts The Author’s Edge\, the go-to marketing podcast for authors who want expert guidance on publishing\, platform building\, book marketing\, and long-term visibility. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/what-platform-is-for/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/MASTER-Event-Templates-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T161500 DTSTAMP:20260910T164016Z CREATED:20260910T163345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T164016Z UID:10000155-1791990000-1791994500@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Short Forms: Flash Fiction and Micro Memoir DESCRIPTION:Create unforgettable stories in just one page—or less.\n\n\n\nFor Memoir\, Fiction\, and NonfictionIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nShort forms are the best training ground for learning how stories really work. Micro memoir and flash fiction sharpen every essential craft skill—precision\, structure\, and impact—in the smallest possible space. Their brevity invites experimentation\, but their simplicity can be deceptive: the most successful short works achieve the same depth\, resonance\, and emotional force of much longer pieces.  \n\n\n\nThrough close readings and craft analysis\, participants will examine a range of outstanding examples and discover the techniques that make short-form writing so delicious and so powerful. Explore how writers use compression\, implication\, and language to create memorable stories in remarkably small spaces and how they create narrative momentum\, develop character\, manage time\, and deliver satisfying endings.  \n\n\n\nWhether you’re writing micro memoir or flash fiction or want to apply these techniques to longer works\, this session will illuminate the craft principles that allow a few carefully chosen words to carry extraordinary weight. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY essential characteristics of successful micro memoirs and flash fiction\n\n\n\nEXAMINE how compression\, selection\, and omission create emotional and narrative power\n\n\n\nANALYZE exemplary short-form works to understand the craft decisions behind their impact\n\n\n\nEXPLORE strategies for building character\, tension\, and narrative movement in limited space\n\n\n\nLEARN how openings\, endings\, and structural turns function differently in compressed forms\n\n\n\nGAIN a deeper understanding of how short forms can serve as your training ground\, sharpen your prose\, and strengthen larger writing projects\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is best for writers at all levels who…\n\n\n\n\nare actively drafting or revising work for workshop\, submission\, or publication\n\n\n\nwant greater control over structure\, voice\, and narrative impact at the sentence and scene level\n\n\n\nare curious about—or already working in—compressed forms\n\n\n\nfeel their stories are too diffuse or overextended and want strategies for tightening and intensifying\n\n\n\nwant to understand how accomplished short-form writers achieve depth\, resonance\, and emotional force \n\n\n\nwant to study storytelling at its most distilled and precise\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Heather Sellers has been teaching for over thirty years\, and she doesn’t teach like anyone else. Her classes are innovative and groundbreaking\, and students describe them as fun\, lively\, and warm—the kind of workshop where you laugh out loud and walk away having learned an enormous amount.  \n\n\n\nShe is the author of You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know\, a popular memoir about family and face blindness. An Oprah Book-of-the-Month Club selection and Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review\, the award-winning book was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered\, Dick Gordon’s The Story\, Dateline\, The Today Show\, and Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos. Her essays appear in The New York Times\, The Sun\, Reader’s Digest\, Good Housekeeping\, The Best American Essays\, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of four books on the craft of writing\, including The Practice of Creative Writing. \n\n\n\nHer fifth collection of poetry\, Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators\, is just out from Lynx House Press. Currently\, she is a member of the MFA faculty at the University of South Florida\, where she won the university’s highest teaching award. She also offers in-person workshops and private lessons for writers at all levels. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/short-forms/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MASTER-Event-Templates-1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261111T160000 DTSTAMP:20260908T151659Z CREATED:20260828T213422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260908T151659Z UID:10000152-1792587600-1794412800@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:4-WEEK WORKSHOP | Unconventional Forms for Unexpected Nonfiction Stories DESCRIPTION:Sometimes it’s not the story you tell\, but the way you tell it that powerfully connects with readers.\n\n\n\nOpen to 15 writers of creative nonfiction\, essays\, memoir\, and lyric essays \n\n\n\nLive On Zoom | Wednesdays\, October 21-November 11 | 1-4 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nIn this creative nonfiction workshop\, writers will play with myriad approaches to the personal narrative—lyric forms\, research braids\, lists\, flash/micro-essays\, point-of-view experiments\, and the found form “hermit crab”—to discover unexpected voices with which to tell personal stories.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll read a variety of published essays from the likes of Ira Sukrungruang\, Neema Avashia\, Brian Doyle\, Gwendolyn Wallace\, Roxane Gay\, Cheryl Strayed\, Brenda Miller\, Sabrina Imbler\, and others\, then kick-start our drafts with in-class writing exercises.  \n\n\n\nWeekly prompts and assignments\, as well as readings\, will inspire participants to try new forms\, voices\, and styles. Work will be shared in class for feedback on a rotating schedule. Classmates and the instructor will offer thoughtful\, targeted oral feedback that focuses on what’s working in our personal narratives and how to strengthen and refine them. \n\n\n\nStudents will receive written feedback on one polished piece up to 2000 words. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOver these four weeks\, you will …\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE new forms for your personal narratives\, including lyric forms\, braids\, and hermit crabs\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how unexpected voices and structures can unlock new stories\n\n\n\nLEARN how to give helpful\, guided feedback on your peers’ work\n\n\n\nCHALLENGE your understanding of the personal narrative\, beyond traditional dramatic structures\n\n\n\n\n*Schedule below \n\n\n\nThis course is for writers …\n\n\n\n\nat all levels\, from experienced writers to those new to the genre\n\n\n\nwho’d like to challenge their understanding and expectations of the personal narrative\n\n\n\nwho are curious to play and experiment with form\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss a class? No worries\, replays will be available. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEthan Gilsdorf is a writer\, teacher\, performer\, and a huge nerd. A sharp\, funny instructor\, Ethan 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\, O\,Oprah Magazine\, Huffington Post\, Brevity\, Electric Literature\, Poetry\, and The Southern Review and has been named twice as “Notable” in Best American Essays.  \n\n\n\nNoted for his thoughtful\, generous and encouraging feedback\, Ethan teaches at GrubStreet\, where he leads the Essay Incubator program; at LitArts RI and Craft Talks; is on the faculty of Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University; and teaches anyone how to play Dungeons & Dragons.  \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nWeek 1  \n\n\n\n\nFirst class orientation: introductions\, logistics\, class expectations and class “citizenship”\n\n\n\nSyllabus\, workshop schedule and methods\n\n\n\nNarrative vs non-narrative forms; List\, Instructional/“How to” \n\n\n\nIn class exercises: Begin your “How to” instructional form essay.\n\n\n\n\nWeek 2 \n\n\n\n\nAssignment due: “How to” instructional form essay for workshop\n\n\n\nWorkshop: small group workshops of “How to” instructional form essay\n\n\n\n“Object correlative”; Single moment\, one-sentence/“run on” lyric flash forms\n\n\n\nHermit crab forms\n\n\n\nIn class exercises: One-sentence scene/flash; hermit crab forms\n\n\n\n\nWeek 3:  \n\n\n\n\nAssignment due: Hermit crab form essay for workshop\n\n\n\nBraided and fragmented forms\n\n\n\nIn class exercises: Braided/ fragmented forms\n\n\n\n\nWeek 4  \n\n\n\n\nAssignment due: any essay for workshop\n\n\n\nRefrain flash essays\n\n\n\nPoint of view experiments\n\n\n\nIn class exercises: Refrain and Point of view forms\n\n\n\nNext steps in your experimental form CNF/essay journey\n\n\n\n\nTestimonials from past students\n\n\n\n“My work is taken seriously in Ethan’s workshops\, and I am taken seriously as a writer.” \n\n\n\n“What a master teacher.”  \n\n\n\n“This may be the best writing class I’ve ever taken.”  \n\n\n\n“You really are one of the best writing teachers I’ve had.” \n\n\n\n“I’m grateful beyond measure for the care that Ethan has taken in teaching us.” \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 first class\, you may request a refund (less a $25 processing fee).After class begins\, you may request a refund for the remaining value of the course (less a $25 processing fee). No credits or refunds will be available after the 2nd class. \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\nInstructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/unconventional-forms/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Workshops and Masterclasses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MASTER-Event-Templates-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T163000 DTSTAMP:20260916T223312Z CREATED:20260916T193443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T223312Z UID:10000156-1792594800-1792600200@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Poetry-Curious? Exploring the Craft of Prose Poetry DESCRIPTION:Spark your creativity\, level up your sentences\, and strengthen your voice by exploring the art and craft of prose poetry. \n\n\n\nFor Poetry and Prose Writers Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nExperiment\, expand your sentence-craft\, and have fun generating new work with prose poetry. As a hybrid form that sits between standard prose (like stories or essays) and poetry\, prose poems are a fascinating and enjoyable form for writers in all genres. Prose poems combine both the narrative and lyric impulses. They use standard sentences and paragraphs instead of traditional line breaks and stanzas\, yet they rely on poetic tools like metaphor and alliteration.  \n\n\n\nFor prose writers\, this form is a great entry way into exploring poetry. For poets\, it’s an exercise in learning to work without line breaks. For all writers\, it’s a great way to play with form and expand your creativity—while creating short work ready to revise and publish. \n\n\n\nDuring this generative online class\, explore what a prose poem is and what it isn’t\, the different types of prose poems\, and what makes a great prose poem. We’ll analyze examples and write drafts based on thought-provoking prompts. You’ll leave this workshop with a new appreciation for prose poems\, fuel for your writing inspiration\, and at least one new draft of your own. \n\n\n\nCome ready to write! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN what a prose poem is (not just a lyrical paragraph!) \n\n\n\nDISCOVER the five key considerations of a prose poem \n\n\n\nEXPLORE common types and styles of prose poems\n\n\n\nLEARN tips for writing engaging prose poems that lit mag editors and readers will love\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for…\n\n\n\n\nwriters new to prose poetry\, with some experience in other forms\n\n\n\npoets who want to try the prose poem form\n\n\n\nnonfiction or fiction writers who want to explore writing poetry\n\n\n\nwriters who want to tap into and maximize their creativity\n\n\n\nwriters who love to learn through experimenting creatively and trying new things\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer\, poet\, writing coach\, and enthusiastic\, engaging\, and inspiring workshop instructor. She’s the author of a poetry collection\, Lightning Is a Mother\, and a memoir\,Take Me Home. Her work has been published in more than 100 literary magazines\, including Rattle\, Brevity\, and Chestnut Review. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature and Best Small Fictions and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/poetry-curious/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MASTER-Event-Templates-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T163000 DTSTAMP:20260910T155651Z CREATED:20260910T150711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T155651Z UID:10000154-1792850400-1792859400@writingcraft.com SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Beyond the Book: Writing Companion Essays that Reach New Readers DESCRIPTION:Your book contains more stories than the ones on its pages. Learn how to write and publish companion essays that draw readers to your work.\n\n\n\nFor fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry alike—companion essays cross genres.Companion essays are written by an author before\, during\, and after a book is launched to create awareness of both the writer and the book. These essays showcase the writer’s voice\, storytelling\, and craft\, leaving readers wanting to read more and buy the book. The form is essay\, but this type of writing is valuable to writers across genres: creative nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry. \n\n\n\nAlso called book-adjacent writing\, companion essays can address a wide range of topics: the book’s themes and craft; historical or cultural context; reflections\, research\, and ideas that extend beyond the book; or experiences from the writer’s life. These essays aren’t excerpts\, summaries\, reviews\, ads\, reading guides\, or a justification for the book. Companion essays are powerful in themselves—informative\, entertaining\, and surprising—and connect the reader to the author and book in unique ways. \n\n\n\nPublishers\, publicists\, and agents encourage (and expect) writers to write and publish companion pieces to support marketing and promotion\, build readership\, and expand the author’s platform. Whether your book is completed\, accepted\, or a work-in-progress\, the best time to begin thinking about and drafting these essays is early in the writing process.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at published examples to see what makes a successful companion essay. You’ll develop strategies for generating your own companion essay ideas\, and we’ll discuss where these essays can be pitched and published and the how-to’s of the submission process. Participants will receive the presentation slides with links to each essay and outlet discussed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this insightful 2.5-hour course\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE what makes a compelling companion essay and how it connects to a book without summarizing or promoting\n\n\n\nGENERATE companion essay ideas drawn from your book\, collection\, or work-in-progress\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW companion essays use topic\, structure\, voice\, and purpose to reach readers\n\n\n\nDISCOVER publications that publish companion essays\, and DEVELOP a strategy for pitching and publishing companion essays\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\nwant an effective way to connect readers to their new book\, collection\, or work-in-progress \n\n\n\nwant to increase their visibility and build their platform\n\n\n\nhave a book or collection at any stage of development \n\n\n\nwant to learn how to write and publish compelling companion essays\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the final session. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKnowledgeable and well-prepared\, passionate\, encouraging\, and an empathetic and kind teacher\, Andrea A. Firth is a writer\, editor\, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She teaches creative writing and the literary magazine publishing process for Chill Subs and other digital education platforms in courses packed with information and lots of examples.   \n\n\n\nAn editor for The Brevity Blog and cofounder of Diablo Writers’ Workshop\, Andrea has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California. Her writing focus is personal essay\, and she was a finalist for the Missouri Review’s 2021 Perkoff Prize in Nonfiction. You can read a selection of her published work at her website. \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Andrea’s classes are stimulating\, well structured\, and informative\, and her experience and skill as a writer and teacher have been extremely valuable.” \n\n\n\n“Andrea is a warm and welcoming teacher. She creates a safe environment to ask questions and explore your skill as an emerging writer. Her knowledge and insights are keen\, kind and above all useful. I look forward to more.” \n\n\n\n“Andrea’s class was everything I hoped for and much more—detailed\, organized\, and packed with information.” \n\n\n\n“As an educator\, Andrea Firth delivers. She’s articulate\, energetic\, passionate\, and personable.” \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/beyond-the-book/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writingcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/MASTER-Event-Templates-2-2.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR