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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Short Forms: Flash Fiction and Micro Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Create unforgettable stories in just one page—or less.\n\n\n\nFor Memoir\, Fiction\, and NonfictionIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nShort forms are the best training ground for learning how stories really work. Micro memoir and flash fiction sharpen every essential craft skill—precision\, structure\, and impact—in the smallest possible space. Their brevity invites experimentation\, but their simplicity can be deceptive: the most successful short works achieve the same depth\, resonance\, and emotional force of much longer pieces.  \n\n\n\nThrough close readings and craft analysis\, participants will examine a range of outstanding examples and discover the techniques that make short-form writing so delicious and so powerful. Explore how writers use compression\, implication\, and language to create memorable stories in remarkably small spaces and how they create narrative momentum\, develop character\, manage time\, and deliver satisfying endings.  \n\n\n\nWhether you’re writing micro memoir or flash fiction or want to apply these techniques to longer works\, this session will illuminate the craft principles that allow a few carefully chosen words to carry extraordinary weight. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY essential characteristics of successful micro memoirs and flash fiction\n\n\n\nEXAMINE how compression\, selection\, and omission create emotional and narrative power\n\n\n\nANALYZE exemplary short-form works to understand the craft decisions behind their impact\n\n\n\nEXPLORE strategies for building character\, tension\, and narrative movement in limited space\n\n\n\nLEARN how openings\, endings\, and structural turns function differently in compressed forms\n\n\n\nGAIN a deeper understanding of how short forms can serve as your training ground\, sharpen your prose\, and strengthen larger writing projects\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is best for writers at all levels who…\n\n\n\n\nare actively drafting or revising work for workshop\, submission\, or publication\n\n\n\nwant greater control over structure\, voice\, and narrative impact at the sentence and scene level\n\n\n\nare curious about—or already working in—compressed forms\n\n\n\nfeel their stories are too diffuse or overextended and want strategies for tightening and intensifying\n\n\n\nwant to understand how accomplished short-form writers achieve depth\, resonance\, and emotional force \n\n\n\nwant to study storytelling at its most distilled and precise\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Heather Sellers has been teaching for over thirty years\, and she doesn’t teach like anyone else. Her classes are innovative and groundbreaking\, and students describe them as fun\, lively\, and warm—the kind of workshop where you laugh out loud and walk away having learned an enormous amount.  \n\n\n\nShe is the author of You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know\, a popular memoir about family and face blindness. An Oprah Book-of-the-Month Club selection and Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review\, the award-winning book was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered\, Dick Gordon’s The Story\, Dateline\, The Today Show\, and Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos. Her essays appear in The New York Times\, The Sun\, Reader’s Digest\, Good Housekeeping\, The Best American Essays\, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of four books on the craft of writing\, including The Practice of Creative Writing. \n\n\n\nHer fifth collection of poetry\, Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators\, is just out from Lynx House Press. Currently\, she is a member of the MFA faculty at the University of South Florida\, where she won the university’s highest teaching award. She also offers in-person workshops and private lessons for writers at all levels. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process.  \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Poetry-Curious? Exploring the Craft of Prose Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Spark your creativity\, level up your sentences\, and strengthen your voice by exploring the art and craft of prose poetry. \n\n\n\nFor Poetry and Prose Writers Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nExperiment\, expand your sentence-craft\, and have fun generating new work with prose poetry. As a hybrid form that sits between standard prose (like stories or essays) and poetry\, prose poems are a fascinating and enjoyable form for writers in all genres. Prose poems combine both the narrative and lyric impulses. They use standard sentences and paragraphs instead of traditional line breaks and stanzas\, yet they rely on poetic tools like metaphor and alliteration.  \n\n\n\nFor prose writers\, this form is a great entry way into exploring poetry. For poets\, it’s an exercise in learning to work without line breaks. For all writers\, it’s a great way to play with form and expand your creativity—while creating short work ready to revise and publish. \n\n\n\nDuring this generative online class\, explore what a prose poem is and what it isn’t\, the different types of prose poems\, and what makes a great prose poem. We’ll analyze examples and write drafts based on thought-provoking prompts. You’ll leave this workshop with a new appreciation for prose poems\, fuel for your writing inspiration\, and at least one new draft of your own. \n\n\n\nCome ready to write! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN what a prose poem is (not just a lyrical paragraph!) \n\n\n\nDISCOVER the five key considerations of a prose poem \n\n\n\nEXPLORE common types and styles of prose poems\n\n\n\nLEARN tips for writing engaging prose poems that lit mag editors and readers will love\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for…\n\n\n\n\nwriters new to prose poetry\, with some experience in other forms\n\n\n\npoets who want to try the prose poem form\n\n\n\nnonfiction or fiction writers who want to explore writing poetry\n\n\n\nwriters who want to tap into and maximize their creativity\n\n\n\nwriters who love to learn through experimenting creatively and trying new things\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer\, poet\, writing coach\, and enthusiastic\, engaging\, and inspiring workshop instructor. She’s the author of a poetry collection\, Lightning Is a Mother\, and a memoir\,Take Me Home. Her work has been published in more than 100 literary magazines\, including Rattle\, Brevity\, and Chestnut Review. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature and Best Small Fictions and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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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/
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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Your Ideal Readers with Jessica Berg
DESCRIPTION:“Everyone will love this book” is not a marketing plan.\n\n\n\nAgents ask who your book is for. So do editors\, publicists and the algorithms behind every online bookstore. “Readers who love great stories” isn’t enough. \n\n\n\nYour ideal reader isn’t a guess or a demographic box you tick on a form. It’s a specific person with a specific inner life: what they worry about\, what they wish someone would say out loud\, which books are already on their nightstand\, and where they spend their time online. Once you know that person\, it gets easier to write your query letter\, pick your comp titles\, decide which platform to show up on first and choose your book’s keywords. \n\n\n\nIn this special work-along session\, we talk with literary agent Jessica Berg about how professionals actually do reader research and the resources you need. \n\n\n\n\nRead comp-title reviews like data\, finding what reviewers reveal about themselves\, not just about the book\n\n\n\nListen in where your readers gather\, on Reddit\, in Facebook groups and on Goodreads shelves\, and turn their language into your pitch\n\n\n\nTell “also shelved with” from true query comps\, and why you need both\n\n\n\nFind the gap in your category that your book fills\, stated in a sentence an agent will believe\n\n\n\nTurn reader research into a primary benefit\, an emotional promise and purchase triggers you can use in your query\, jacket copy and marketing\n\n\n\n\nEveryone who registers gets our free DIY Ideal Reader Research Guide\, a section-by-section walkthrough of the same research\, with the tools and sources for each step. Fair warning: done thoroughly by hand\, it’s a 44–70 hour project. But we’ll also show you how our Ideal Reader Analyzer can build the same persona\, comp list and marketing roadmap in about two minutes\, for writers who’d rather spend those hours writing–and give you a huge discount to try it out. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY October 27 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\nJessica Berg is a literary agent\, author\, and the founder of Rosecliff Literary. She loves stories that explore grief\, longing\, ambition\, and survival and the complicated ways they intersect. \n\n\n\nShe earned her MFA from Spalding University and contributes regularly to Writer’s Digest. Jessica serves on the boards of the Women’s National Book Association and the Historical Novel Society\, and teaches nationally on querying\, comp titles\, and the business of authorship\, with a focus on building sustainable\, long-term writing careers. Her client list includes Vincent Zandri\, Lisa Roe\, Arizona Bell\, and others.. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for a head start on your proposal\, your launch and your marketing plans. \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/the-writers-bridge-ideal-readers/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Write Beyond Yourself: Research\, Reporting\, and the Art of Narrative Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Some stories demand more than what we already know: interviews\, research\, quotations\, and reportage. Learn the skill of turning facts into scenes with inspiration and truth.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Narrative Nonfiction\, and MemoirIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWe are often told to ‘write what we know.’ But what if the story we’re telling\, whatever our own role in it\, requires us to seek out information\, perspectives\, and knowledge beyond our own experience? Even as we write beyond ourselves\, the question at the heart of the book or essay must drive our inquiry. Why we are telling this story in turn dictates how that story unfolds and is structured and told. \n\n\n\nLearn narrative nonfiction writer Michael Copperman’s best techniques for conducting and writing interviews\, researching\, exploring archives and analyzing keepsakes\, quoting from other first sources\, and reportage. Through examples of transforming source material into recreated and imagined scenes and text\, you’ll discover the combination of skill\, patience\, and inspiration that powers successful narrative nonfiction. \n\n\n\nProceeds for this course support Short Reads\, the free\, flash-nonfiction literary magazine\, and the writers they publish. Find out more and subscribe to Short Reads here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE different kinds of research\, reportage\, investigation\, and interviews\n\n\n\nINTERROGATE the ethics of transforming anecdotes\, facts\, and data into narrative\n\n\n\nCONSIDER models of transforming research into a story\n\n\n\nLEARN how to begin doing this work for your own writing\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers who…\n\n\n\n\nwant to include archival materials and research and/or conduct interviews to enrich their own work\n\n\n\nwish to consider or include knowledge and perspectives beyond their own immediate experience\n\n\n\nwant to write compelling\, enlightening narrative nonfiction that appeals to audiences\, agents\, editors\, and readers\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\nMICHAEL COPPERMAN’s memoir TEACHER: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi 2017)\, about the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta\, was a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Award in CNF. A funny\, generous and thoughtful teacher\, he blends specific information with the inspiration to use it\, right away. \n\n\n\nMichael’s prose has appeared in The Oxford-American\, Guernica\, The Sun\, Creative Nonfiction\, Boston Review\, Salon\, Gulf Coast\, Triquarterly\, Kenyon Review and Copper Nickel\, among many others\, and has won awards and garnered fellowships from the Munster Literature Center\, Breadloaf Writers Conference\, Oregon Literary Arts\, and the Oregon Arts Commission. His work is represented by David Dunton of Harvey Klinger. \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/write-beyond-yourself/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Exploring the Happy Accident: Crafting Draft Discoveries into Exquisite Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Learn to cultivate a writing process that provides fertile ground for unexpected discoveries and how to make the most of moments when you’re surprised by your own writing.\n\n\n\nFor creative nonfiction\, nonfiction\, and all writers eager to find more spontaneity in their processIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nSometimes the exact thing your writing needs is the thing you least expect: the subject you weren’t meaning to consider\, the turn of phrase you didn’t know you had in you\, or the connections you never realized you could make. These “Lucky Drafts” are happy accidents\, turning serendipity\, coincidence\, and unwitting juxtaposition into exquisite nonfiction. And often\, these drafts surprise us with their flow and power\, transcending the labor of writing to reach our strongest authorial voice.  \n\n\n\nI never meant to be an essayist. The first long-form piece of creative nonfiction I ever wrote was meant to be an 800-word contribution to a roundtable on race and poetry. It turned into a 9000-word essay that went explosively viral upon publication. Nearly every essay I’ve published since has similarly arrived while I was writing something else entirely. This is true of many of my poems\, too.  \n\n\n\nOther writers across genres—poets\, novelists\, and essayists—have shared with me their own adventures in happy accidents\, to borrow a phrase from legendary painter and PBS fixture Bob Ross\, and how inadvertent nonfiction can become the best essays we never meant to write. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll consider why and how the inadvertent can so often be so much more interesting and satisfying than the thing we were meaning to write. We’ll discuss strategies for cultivating and embracing happy accidents and learn to create the circumstances (and welcome the surprises!) to generate exciting new work that surpasses our own expectations for our writing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER examples of accidental turns in essay writing\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how and why the unintentional can result in potent and memorable writing\n\n\n\nLEARN how to embrace the unexpected and let it lead us to fresh and exciting new essays\n\n\n\nRELEASE over-control of your writing to allow yourself to surprise yourself\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\nfeel stuck or blocked\n\n\n\nare writing a ton but publishing less than they hope to\n\n\n\nseek to differentiate their work from everyone else’s in an oversaturated media moment\n\n\n\nare waiting for their writing to “flow” instead of pushing\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 personable and lively teacher\, Jaswinder Bolina’s superpower is translating complicated ideas into plain English. His conversational\, humorous sessions are transformative for students’ work. Noted for being analytical yet highly approachable\, Jaswinder’s most recent book English as a Second Language and Other Poems (2023) was awarded the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. He is author of three previous poetry collections\, The 44th of July (2019)\, Phantom Camera (2013)\, and Carrier Wave (2007)\, and of the essay collection Of Color (2020).REFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | The Art of Applying: How to Win Grants\, Residencies\, and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Who couldn’t use a little extra time or money to start or finish a writing project? Learn tips and tricks for your next funding application—and what makes a successful ask\, for writers at every level.\n\n\n\nFor All Writers \n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturdays\, November 7 & 14 | 3-5 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nMost writers would benefit from more support for their writing—whether a travel grant to research your latest piece\, a one-month residency to draft new pages\, or a fellowship to pay your bills while you finish a manuscript. But how do you find those opportunities? And once you find them\, how do you figure out if it’s worth your time (and application fees!) to apply?  \n\n\n\nChelsea Biondolillo will share tips and tricks for finding fellowships\, grants\, and residencies to support a wide range of projects and writers at every level. We will go over the language of applications—how to know if you are “emerging” or “mid-career\,” or if your work is “innovative” or “enduring\,” the difference between honoraria and stipends\, and how to determine the actual costs of attending a “free” residency.  \n\n\n\nBring your application drafts and conundrums to share during the second week; we will live-edit participant application materials to show how small changes can improve your application’s readability\, tailoring\, and effectiveness. You will leave with a handout full of resources\, improved confidence for navigating applications\, and a clearer sense of how to get the support your work needs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOver these two weeks\, you will …\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER ways to get external support for specific projects or your writing life\n\n\n\nEXPLORE resources for fellowships\, residencies\, and grants to enrich your writing process or practice\n\n\n\nLEARN to “read between the lines” of official application guidelines to find the right resources for your project or goals\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing a statement of purpose or cover letter\n\n\n\nWATCH as participant work is live-edited to improve tailoring\, and apply those edits to your own work\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDay 1\nIntros / course intro / go over schedule Grant\, fellowship\, residency—what’s the difference?The application Trinity: Cover letter\, statement of purpose\, writing samplePrompt (artist’s statement)—10 min breakIntro homework / options for feedback (work submitted by Thursday night is eligible for live edit) / review how to give feedback \n\n\n\n\nDay 2\nCheck-in—what opportunities did folks find?Discussion: on “reading between the lines” of calls for entriesPrompt (the paramedic method of revision)—10 min breakLive editing of participant workQ & A \n\n\n\n\nThis course is for writers who are …\n\n\n\n\nplanning their next (or first!) application season\n\n\n\nready to apply for a funding opportunity and needing a little more confidence\n\n\n\nhoping their application materials stand out and impress selection committees\n\n\n\nunsure why their past applications weren’t successful\n\n\n\nin the midst of an active project\, looking for funding to help continue it\n\n\n\nplanning a project that could benefit from funding during research or development\n\n\n\nlooking for some time away to work on a piece of writing (either as a funded staycation or residency)\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 was too intimidated to apply for writing residencies in the past. Chelsea’s ‘Art of Applying’ workshop gave me the tools and encouragement I needed to create a compelling application. I was just awarded my first residency ever\, thanks in large part to what I learned from her.” ~ S LeDuc \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\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\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/art-of-applying/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Time Traveler: How to Manipulate Time on the Page
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the chronology of a story\, we can speed up and slow down time within scenes\, immersing the reader more fully in the moment. Explore four kinds of time in this write-along webinar. \n\n\n\nFor creative nonfiction\, nonfiction\, and fictionIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nTime on the page creates tension\, amplifies emotion\, and controls the pace of the story. This can be the time it takes characters or the narrator to move across a room\, a montage of the past or flashbacks within the present scene\, and the time created by different verb tenses and points of view.  \n\n\n\nWriters most often work with four types of time:  \n\n\n\n\nLinear/logical time that sustains plot and point of view\n\n\n\nThe Continuous Present\, which brings immediacy to the page and can support multiple or collective points of view\n\n\n\nLong Time\, with which we can depict extraordinary amounts of time passing in a flash piece and show how the deep past informs the present and the future\n\n\n\nMeticulous Time\, when the time within the story is actually shorter than the amount of time it takes to read it. By slowing time and examining smaller details and moments\, greater emotion is created on the page or the reader’s focus is controlled. \n\n\n\n\nWith examples and instructions\, explore the fascinating craft of creating\, expanding\, and contracting time by rewriting a single scene in each of the four times. You’ll finish our action-packed hour with a deeper understanding of how time elapses within scenes and flash pieces and a stronger understanding of when and why to use each type of time.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will also help you find a well of creativity and freedom to draw from in connection to how you replicate time on the page. \n\n\n\nCome ready to write! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN about four different types of time to use in creative writing\n\n\n\nHEAR examples that illuminate the advantages of using different time elements\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how time is its own craft element\, helping writers guide their readers through plot\n\n\n\nWRITE in four kinds of time to truly understand this craft technique\n\n\n\nKNOW how\, when\, and why to expand and contract time in your work\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for …\n\n\n\n\nintermediate and advanced fiction and nonfiction writers who are obsessed with time—how it moves\, bends\, and plays tricks on the page\n\n\n\nwriters looking to explore fresh aspects of craft and push past familiar techniques\n\n\n\nwriters whose scenes feel flat or rushed and want to learn how to stretch a moment until it earns its weight\n\n\n\nwriters struggling with pacing—either everything moves too fast\, or nothing moves at all\n\n\n\nwriters who want their prose to mirror the way memory\, boredom\, or deep focus actually feel\, instead of defaulting to straightforward chronology\n\n\n\nwriters ready to experiment with structure and are looking for a framework to do it with intention\, not just instinct\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\nAn informal-but-informed teacher focused on actionable results\, Sherrie Flick is the author of six books\, including the short story collection I Have Not Considered Consequences (Autumn House Press\, 2025). She is co-editor for the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America and senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Her work has been performed at Symphony Space for NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared in many journals and anthologies\, including Ploughshares\, New England Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and Flash Fiction Forward. An essay from her debut essay collection\, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (University of Nebraska Press)\, was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023. Her most recent awards include a Creative Development Grant from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She is a visiting professor in the West Virginia Wesleyan low-residency MFA program.REFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:3-WEEK WORKSHOP | Build Your Bold Creative Practice: For Writers to Jump-start\, Reset\, and Connect
DESCRIPTION:Creativity is a practice that requires showing up. Get the support and guidance you need to take risks and build a bold writing practice.\n\n\n\nOpen to 25 writers | 2 need-based scholarships are available—please email info@writingcraft.com to inquire before purchasing. \n\n\n\nLive On Zoom | Every other Sunday\, November 15–December 13\, 12–1:30pm EST \n\n\n\nDo you remember what brought you to writing? Have you lost your momentum and curiosity along the way? Writing is hard and life is full of (important!) interruptions\, but with real structure and a cohort that has your back\, you can return to your writing practice with courage and honesty. \n\n\n\nIn Art and Fear\, David Bayles and Ted Orland write about the fears that keep us from making work at all\, and in The Artist’s Way\, Julia Cameron insists that creativity is not a rare gift but a practice—one that requires showing up\, again and again\, especially when it’s uncomfortable. This course draws from both\, alongside additional interviews\, videos\, and texts\, to guide us in building a sustainable creative practice. \n\n\n\nThis is not a craft lecture series. Instead\, the course is designed to give you space for introspection and artistic risk-taking. To allow you to commit—to yourself and to the group—to showing up at the page and to build the muscle that makes showing up possible long after the class ends.  \n\n\n\nEach session\, you’ll commit to one artistic exercise to bring back and share at our next meeting. You’ll take yourself on weekly artist dates. You’ll journal daily. You’ll be asked to stretch and take risks with a cohort who will quickly become your writing community.  \n\n\n\nBetween our three main sessions\, you’ll also have an optional co-writing hour\, where we’ll put the week’s exercises into practice together\, in real time. You’ll also have access to a private online forum to check in\, connect\, and share with your cohort. \n\n\n\nThis is the first time this particular group will be doing this particular thing. Much of what we build here\, we’ll be building together for the first time.  \n\n\n\nIf that excites you more than it scares you (or if it scares you exactly the right amount)\, join us. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\nSession 1 (Nov 15)—Where have you been? Why are you here? Where are you going? We start by taking stock: what’s brought you to this practice\, what’s gotten in the way\, and what you’re actually hoping to build. Expect honest reflection and the first artistic commitment of the course. \n\n\n\nCo-Writing Hour (Nov 22): 12-1 pm EST  \n\n\n\nSession 2 (Nov 29) — Working in Uncertainty. The messy middle. With two weeks between sessions to actively pursue the finicky muse\, we’ll sit with not-knowing\, explore what it means to make work without a guaranteed outcome\, and share the exercises from Session 1. \n\n\n\nCo-Writing Hour (Dec 6): 12-1 pm EST \n\n\n\nSession 3 (Dec 13) — Making Plans and Promises. The last week includes a culminating discussion. We close by naming what we want to carry forward—concrete commitments to our own practice—and share the final round of work. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, you will …\n\n\n\n\nRECONNECT with why you create and identify what’s been getting in the way\n\n\n\nBUILD a sustainable\, repeatable creative practice\n\n\n\nCOMPLETE exercises to discover surprise and new avenues \n\n\n\nCOMMIT to yourself and your work\n\n\n\nPRACTICE sharing unfinished\, risky\, or vulnerable work in a small\, trusted group\n\n\n\nSIT with uncertainty instead of rushing past it\n\n\n\nLEAVE with concrete plans and promises for your ongoing practice\n\n\n\n\nThis course is for writers …\n\n\n\n\nwant to jump-start a creative practice that’s stalled or start a conscious practice for the first time\n\n\n\nare willing to stretch and take risks\n\n\n\nare ready to commit to weekly accountability\n\n\n\nwant a variety of exercises and approaches to draw from\n\n\n\ndesire a community and mutual accountability over solitary 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\nWith over 20 years of teaching and writing experience\, Sharla Yates is devoted to helping people recognize that their creative pursuits matter—more than that—are vital. She’s the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight (Stranded Oak Press\, 2017). She hosts CRAFT TALKS\, a webinar series for writers\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her essay “Address\,” published on Short Reads\, was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal Writing Contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\nTestimonials From Past Students\n\n\n\n“Sharla has a clear passion for what she teaches!”  \n\n\n\n“I really enjoyed Yates’ class. She did a good job at channeling your inner ‘creative process.’ Def recommend!!!” \n\n\n\n“I like the variety of exercises we were assigned that let us try different forms of writing.”“She did a great job organizing specific workshops and readings to make sure that we knew what we were working on and how to accomplish what we wanted out of the project.” \n\n\n\n“I grew not only as a writer but also generally as a creative. I was a big fan of the journal and journal prompts.” \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/creative-practice/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops and Masterclasses
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Why Does Your Memoir Matter? Finding the Heart of Your Story to Connect with Readers
DESCRIPTION:Your memoir is not what happened to you—it’s why it mattered. Memoirs that sell connect a single focus from your story with readers. \n\n\n\nFor memoiristsIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nOne of the most challenging things for memoirists to do is find the singular story out of a lifetime of stories they’re telling in their memoir. A memoir is a single lens on an aspect of a life—not an entire biography\, and memoirists must learn to distill their work. The events they choose to dramatize must be those most relevant to the internal growth trajectory of the narrator. In other words\, they must learn to ask “who cares?” ruthlessly about key events in their lives. Not a task for the faint of heart!  \n\n\n\nIn this interactive webinar\, we’ll explore powerful questions to help you find the heart of your memoir. If you aren’t sure yet what your story is\, these questions can help you understand what’s missing! We will also look at the concept of a misbelief and learn how tracking a character’s misbelief leads us to the memoir’s theme and point. Whether you’re just starting your memoir\, already have several drafts\, are struggling with a proposal or are getting rejections for “I didn’t connect” or “I don’t know who the audience is\,” these exercises will strengthen your understanding of your work. \n\n\n\nPlease bring writing materials and be prepared to write! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE examples of memoir “points”\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND the difference between plot and story (what and why)\n\n\n\nLEARN how point and theme are connected\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the scene that their memoir requires in order to exist\n\n\n\nPRACTICE finding the heart of their memoir\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for intermediate and advanced memorists…\n\n\n\n\nwho are struggling to complete a memoir draft\n\n\n\nwho can’t see the forest for the trees in their story\n\n\n\nseeking clarity on their memoir’s focus\n\n\n\nwho are writing book proposals and stuck on the overview or the audience\n\n\n\ncurious about how their narrative connects with a larger audience\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\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 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.REFUNDS (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/why-does-your-memoir-matter/
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Essential Structures: Building Successful Fiction and Memoir
DESCRIPTION:An intensive three-hour seminar exploring the hidden architectures that make stories compelling\, memorable\, and emotionally effective. \n\n\n\nFor Memoir and Fiction \n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturday\, November 28 | 2-5 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nDiscover a range of narrative structures used in contemporary fiction and memoir\, including three-act design\, lyric and fragmented forms\, braided narratives\, epistolary structures\, frames\, and modular storytelling. Rather than treating structure as a formula\, we’ll examine how writers shape reader attention\, tension\, revelation\, and emotional momentum via crucial structural decisions. \n\n\n\nExamine key structural principles to determine whether a manuscript succeeds or stalls. We’ll discuss the difference between what writers want to communicate and what readers actually want to experience\, what “showing” truly means on the sentence and scene level\, and the most common pitfalls that weaken fiction and memoir projects.  \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, you’ll gain a solid sense of the basic principles for constructing your own fiction or memoir narratives that are vivid\, dynamic\, engaging\, original\, and structurally sound. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this three-hour seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER the range of narrative frameworks that turn ideas and material into compelling stories\n\n\n\nLEARN TO CLOSE READ for the architecture behind stories that resonate and endure: Journey\, Mystery\, Braid\, Mosaic\n\n\n\nMATCH the essential shape your particular story needs with the proven structural template that best supports your material\n\n\n\nTRANSFORM your initial inspiration into reader-friendly\, memorable\, complete narratives\n\n\n\nEXAMINE hidden mechanics of withholding\, pace\, and revelation.\n\n\n\nTRACE and strengthen the A-to-B change trajectory that gives stories both momentum and meaning.\n\n\n\nREPLACE simplistic “show\, don’t tell” advice with a more powerful understanding of how narrative information and story momentum actually work for readers.\n\n\n\n\nWhether you’re getting ready to write your first memoir or in the midst of revising your fifth novel\, you’ll find a place in this course. The common denominator is not experience level but commitment: participants should be actively working on a project or wanting to do so and ready to engage deeply with questions of structure. \n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for ambitious beginners to seasoned writers …\n\n\n\n\nwho want their fiction or memoir to find—and move—readers \n\n\n\nwith an idea (or 2 or 3) for a story or book project—but who are struggling to get the project off the ground\n\n\n\nwhose project is up and running\, but it has been difficult to bring to completion\n\n\n\nwho have a project in mind or in the works and who have taken at least a few writing classes or seminars\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\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\nTestimonials from past students\n\n\n\n“This was one of the most substantive classes I’ve taken. The craft insights were deep\, but everything was presented in a clear\, usable structure that made revision feel possible instead of overwhelming.” – Anon \n\n\n\n“I loved how rigorous the content was without ever feeling dry. The pacing\, humor\, and energy kept me completely engaged—and I left with concrete tools I used immediately.” – Grace L\, New York \n\n\n\n“What stood out most was how intentional the teaching was.” –Kate S\, NJ \n\n\n\n“I expected inspiration\, but I didn’t expect this level of craft depth. The class was smart\, funny\, and incredibly well organized.” – Constance\, Holland\, MI \n\n\n\n“You can feel how much thought has gone into the structure of the presentation. Nothing felt random—everything connected\, and Heather is so personable and smart and fun.” – BethAnn\, Tampa\, FL \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/essential-structures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Fix It\, Make It Better: The Fine Art of Revising Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Revision\, some say\, is the hardest part of writing\, but this stage can also be the most rewarding and pleasurable.\n\n\n\nFor Memoir and Nonfiction ProseIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nCapturing our memories—vividly\, thoroughly\, and carried along by palpable emotion—takes skill and concerted effort. But the task of writing compelling memoir doesn’t end there. Once we’ve given the story our best shot\, once we’ve powered our way through an early draft or two\, how do we take what we’ve created and use the powerful tools of revision to make the memoir shine? \n\n\n\nContrary to common wisdom\, this is one task where it’s often not productive to start at the beginning. A story has multiple moving parts—sentences\, paragraphs\, chapters\, the beginning\, and the end. Successful revision happens when we learn to step back from our writing\, making deliberate choices about when to intervene\, where to intervene\, and what changes will work best. \n\n\n\nThe key to effective revision—whether you’re writing a memoir or a six-page personal essay—is understanding that revision can take multiple approaches. Learn how to weigh those choices with intention\, and walk away with tools you can apply to any project\, in any genre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN how to enjoy revision\, looking forward to it with anticipation\n\n\n\nDISCERN which revision approach works best at what stage of the writing\n\n\n\nOVERTURN that nagging feeling that you have been “revising forever”\n\n\n\nFIND the best ways to establish what should be included in the memoir and what should be left out\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level\, at any stage who…\n\n\n\n\nare uncertain how to effectively improve early drafts\n\n\n\nworry they spend too much time polishing and re-polishing sentences\n\n\n\nfind revision unpleasant or worrisome\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\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. His insightful teaching\, calm sensibility\, and wicked sense of humor make his classes a delight as well as bringing useful techniques for every writer. Dinty 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.REFUNDS (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/fix-it/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:3-WEEK WORKSHOP | Crash Course in Flash Nonfiction: Unlock the Power of Writing Short
DESCRIPTION:Flash nonfiction is a powerful form for personal stories. Learn how to write punchy\, poetic flash essays that make a lasting impact on readers. \n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Flash Nonfiction\, Literary Nonfiction \n\n\n\nLive On Zoom | Thursdays\, Dec 3 – 17\, 2026 | 7-9 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nFlash nonfiction is the art of telling true stories from one’s life with power and brevity (in 1\,000 words or less). During this three-week generative workshop\, participants will learn the craft of writing flash nonfiction narratives\, write new drafts\, and receive feedback to practice what they’re learning.  \n\n\n\nTogether\, we’ll explore examples of expertly crafted flash nonfiction narratives and define what makes them effective. You’ll learn how to make your personal stories connect with readers by using theme and plot\, compression and layering\, and images and lyricism. Discover what editors look for when selecting flash nonfiction pieces for publication\, and write your own powerful pieces.  \n\n\n\nThis course will include readings\, writing prompts\, in-class writing time\, writing homework\, and Q&A. Instructor feedback on two flash-length narratives is available as a $50 add-on at the point of purchase (limited to 25 people). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOver these three weeks\, you will …\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the key elements of flash nonfiction and how they work together to create powerful essays\n\n\n\nLEARN to create emotional resonance so that readers will be thinking about your piece long after they read it\n\n\n\nEXPLORE tips for writing engaging and powerful flash nonfiction that literary magazine editors will love\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how to use compression\, layering\, and lyricism to make each sentence pop\n\n\n\nWRITE flash nonfiction that’s powerful\, punchy\, personal\, and poetic\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n\nWeek 1. Make it Powerful: Theme\, Plot\, & Research \n\n\n\nWeek 2. Make it Personal: Voice\, Vulnerability & Emotional Intensity\n\n\n\nWeek 3. Make it Punchy: Compression\, Lyricism\, & Form \n\n\n\n\nThis course is for intermediate writers who \n\n\n\n\nWant to generate new flash nonfiction work \n\n\n\nWant their flash nonfiction pieces to grab the attention of editors and readers\n\n\n\nWant to write more powerfully when writing short\n\n\n\nSeek to increase the impact of their prose\n\n\n\nHope to publish flash nonfiction pieces in literary magazines\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\nBethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer\, poet\, writing coach\, and workshop instructor. She’s the author of a poetry collection\, Lightning Is a Mother\, and a mini-memoir of flash nonfiction pieces\, Take Me Home. Her work has been published in more than 100 literary magazines\, including Brevity\, River Teeth\, and Chestnut Review. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature and Best Small Fictions\, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, The Best of the Net\, and Best Microfiction. Twice\, she earned first place in Women On Writing’s quarterly flash essay contest. Connect with her at bethanyjarmul.com or on social media: @BethanyJarmul. \n\n\n\nTestimonials from past students:\n\n\n\n“I love taking webinars taught by Bethany Jarmul and always get so much out of them. Bethany has a strong record of publication success and is skilled at sharing her techniques. In her webinars\, which are both affordable and easy to sign up for\, Bethany provides a huge amount of valuable information and writing strategies in clear\, concise\, easy-to-follow presentations.” – Beth Mulcahy  \n\n\n\n“Bethany’s workshops are helpful\, worthwhile\, and enjoyable. She is well organized and her workshops include step-by-step\, actionable strategies that help writers take their craft to another level. The techniques I learned in her workshops helped to generate more writing in different genres and improved the quality of my writing overall. I’m always happy to attend one of her classes.”  – Angelle McDougall \n\n\n\n“Bethany is prepared\, specific\, and encourages questions. I’ve attended several of her webinars\, even in a genre I don’t normally work in\, and found myself stretching into this new area. Highly recommend her work and her webinars.” – Mare Biddle  \n\n\n\n“Bethany is a wonderful presenter. So grateful for how generous she was with examples\, her own writing\, suggestions for submissions\, suggestions for continued diving into the craft…all in.” – Robin Perry \n\n\n\n“Bethany is a wonderful presenter\, speaks clearly and with enthusiasm. VERY present.” – Winnie Ganshaw \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). \n\n\n\nNo 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/crash-course-in-flash/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops and Masterclasses
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Sentencing: Power\, Precision\, and Purpose in Every Line
DESCRIPTION:Break out of your habitual syntax\, and harness the energy in the smallest\, most important narrative unit.\n\n\n\nFor Memoir and Nonfiction ProseIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWriting lives or dies at the sentence level. So what makes a sentence work? Learn the nuances of sentence craft and make sure every line carries its weight. \n\n\n\nThe sentence is the essential building block of any piece of writing—and it must do multiple kinds of work at once: convey meaning\, generate emotion\, and sustain momentum. Yet many writers underestimate how much power resides at this level and how deliberately sentences must be shaped to carry that weight. This isn’t about grammar or a particular “literary voice\,” but about understanding the mechanics of sentence craft to carry out your true\, distinct voice while delivering a powerful story. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we take a focused look at the art of the sentence. You will learn to shape sentences that create authority\, distinctiveness\, and voice; build fresh new patterns that sustain reader interest from line to line; and diagnose the hidden strengths and weaknesses in your own sentence-level habits. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the sentence habits that limit a manuscript’s effectiveness \n\n\n\nAPPLY three key sentence techniques—compression\, expansion\, and rhythm control—to create more compelling prose\n\n\n\nBUILD special sentence-level craft skills\, including strategic withholding\, revelation\, and syntactic variation\n\n\n\nLEARN how to revise ordinary sentences into memorable\, voice-driven lines that carry greater emotional and narrative impact AND\n\n\n\nDESIGN purposeful sequences of sentences that generate momentum\, surprise\, and flow on the page\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning writers or seasoned pros in need of a tune-up.\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.REFUNDS (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/sentencing/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | When Things Happen: Mastering Chronology in Fiction and Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Learn to manipulate your reader‘s experience of time to create pace\, surprise\, and deeper engagement with your words.\n\n\n\nFor Fiction and Creative Nonfiction\, Essay and Memoir \n\n\n\nIn the real world\, we live our lives forward\, chronologically\, and at the same rate as everyone else. But writers can master time to speed up and slow down the reader’s experience\, move through time for emotional effects\, and alter time to support dramatic moments.  \n\n\n\nIn this session—equally helpful for both fiction and nonfiction writers—we’ll examine how narratives by such authors as Cheryl Strayed\, Ryan Van Meter\, Michelle Kuo\, Jaquira Diaz\, JRR Tolkien\, Jeannette Walls\, Nicholson Baker\, and others all strategically manipulate the reader’s experience of time and to what effect.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll examine the pacing of a story (how quickly through time we move)\, the sequence of storytime (whether the story is being told chronologically or not)\, and the use of flashback and flashforward. We’ll also examine the use of narrative summary versus scene and learn techniques like sentence length\, visual layout\, and more to alter the experience of time and increase reader engagement in a story. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the key elements of manipulating time in your narratives and what effects they have on readers\n\n\n\nDISCOVER alternate storytelling structures for fiction and nonfiction\n\n\n\nLEARN HOW to break free of traditional\, linear time management in your narratives\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for all writers …\n\n\n\n\nat all levels\, from experienced writers to those new to their genre\n\n\n\nwho feel stuck in “this happened\, and this happened\, then this happened” structures\n\n\n\nwho’d like to experiment with structure to make sure their work captures the attention and engages their readers\n\n\n\nstruggling with where and how to use flashbacks or add backstory\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\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 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\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/when-things-happen/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Art of Reflection in Memoir: When to Step In and How to Step Out
DESCRIPTION:Reflection is one of the most powerful techniques in memoir but also one of the most misused. Learn how to craft your insights to deepen the narrative rather than interrupting.\n\n\n\nFor Memoir Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nIn a memoir\, you’re writing from the future\, looking back. That’s the gift of memoir: perspective that your past self didn’t have. But knowing when to use that insight and how much is one of the craft challenges writers struggle with most. Step in too quickly and you flatten the tension. Interpret too much and you rob the reader of the experience. Yet stay too firmly in the past and you’ll lose the meaning the whole story builds toward. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll look closely at what reflection actually does in memoir: how reflective and retrospective narration connects to themes\, reveals character growth\, and illuminates what couldn’t be known in the moment—and how it can just as easily disrupt a scene\, signal a lack of trust in the reader\, or become a crutch for scenes that need more work. We’ll read examples from published memoirs to see how skilled writers deploy reflection at exactly the right moment and why it lands. \n\n\n\nYou’ll leave with a clear framework for evaluating the reflection in your own manuscript: where to cut\, where to deepen\, and where to let the scene do the work without commentary. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXAMINE the difference between the narrative\, reflective\, and retrospective voices—and when to use each one.\n\n\n\nLEARN five tools for using reflection effectively\, using examples from published memoirs. \n\n\n\nIDENTIFY (and learn to avoid) the most common pitfalls of reflection.\n\n\n\nDISCOVER targeted writing exercises for folding reflection into your narratives. \n\n\n\nDEVELOP an editorial eye to distinguish between reflection that amplifies a scene and reflection that is intrusive or diffuses the tension.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers \n\n\n\n\nwith a complete or in-progress memoir and are looking to revise\n\n\n\nwho’ve been told their manuscript “over-explains” or that readers feel “told rather than shown”\n\n\n\nstruggling to know when to let a scene breathe versus when to step in with the narrator’s adult understanding\n\n\n\nwhose early drafts are full of meaning-making they know needs to be cut—but aren’t sure what to keep\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\nKatie Bannon’s teaching is encouraging and practical\, with step-by-step guidance and concrete tools. Writers who want to access deep creativity with a solid framework will love her classes!  \n\n\n\nKatie Bannon is a writer\, editor\, and educator whose work has appeared in The Rumpus\, ELLE Magazine\, NPR\, Newsweek\, Narratively\, and more. Her memoir manuscript\, which charts her journey as a compulsive hair puller\, was a finalist for the Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize. A graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator\, she holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Emerson College. She is a developmental editor who loves working with nonfiction writers to find the “story” behind the “situation” of their memoirs and essays. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two cats. Find Katie at www.katiebannon.comREFUNDS (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/the-art-of-reflection/
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SUMMARY:SEASON PASS | Webinar Subscription Special
DESCRIPTION:Unlock every CRAFT TALKS webinar from January to June 2027 (plus office hours) with one simple pass!\n\n\n\nYour Season Pass registers you automatically for all 25 CRAFT TALKS webinars through June 2027\, with live access\, replays\, and follow-up materials for each. You’ll also get three drop-in\, live-editing office hours with writing coach and editor Allison K Williams\, where you can ask questions\, meet other writers\, and get feedback on your pages. And you’ll have access to a private forum just for Season Pass holders. \n\n\n\nHere’s what that means…\n\n\n\nSeason Pass holders are registered for all 25 webinars this season. No sign-ups. No stress. Less worry about missing the next great webinar. \n\n\n\nFor each webinar\, you’ll receive:\n\n\n\n\nLive access to each session\, where you can ask questions and take away ideas you can put into action right away.\n\n\n\nA replay and downloadable materials (slides\, notes\, and any follow-up resources)\, delivered to your inbox within 3 business days of the live event. Download them within 30 days\, and they’re yours to keep permanently.\n\n\n\nA private online forum to check in\, connect\, and share with other season pass holders!\n\n\n\n\nYou don’t need to attend live to get full value from the pass. Many season pass holders watch on their own schedule. \n\n\n\nPlus\, drop-in office hours with Allison!\n\n\n\nThree sessions with writing coach\, editor\, and co-founder of CRAFT TALKS\, Allison K Williams (dates TBD). Think of them as small-group conversations\, where you get to: \n\n\n\n\nAsk questions about craft and your current project\n\n\n\nLearn from watching live edits on submitted work\n\n\n\nGet feedback if you submit pages and attend the hour\, even if Allison doesn’t live-edit yours\n\n\n\n\n“Pages” means whatever you’re working on now\, whether that’s a memoir\, essays\, fiction\, or something you’re just getting started on. You bring what’s on your desk! \n\n\n\n\n“I am always in awe of Allison’s wise and perceptive edits and observations and will look forward to more in the next season of CRAFT TALKS.” — Donna C. \n\n\n\n\nThroughout the season\, you’ll learn from acclaimed teachers and authors across the craft of writing\, the writer’s life\, and the business of writing.  \n\n\n\nWebinar lineup \n\n\n\nJanuary \n\n\n\n\nJan 6: Bethany Jarmul\, Goal Setting for Writers\n\n\n\nJan 13: Allison K Williams\, Newsletters and Substack\n\n\n\nJan 20: Amy L. Bernstein\, The Goldilocks of Book Research: Infusing Just the Right Amount Into Your Nonfiction or Fiction\n\n\n\nJan 27: Patrick Madden\, Writing the Undramatic Narrative Essay\n\n\n\n\nFebruary \n\n\n\n\nFeb 3: Dinty W. Moore\, Embracing the Power and Flexibility of Hybrid Memoir\n\n\n\nFeb 10: Katie Bannon\, The Dreaded So What? How to Build Stakes\n\n\n\nFeb 17: Michelle Cutler\, Memoir and Reported Nonfiction\n\n\n\nFeb 24: Ethan Gilsdorf\, Understanding Point of View\n\n\n\n\nMarch \n\n\n\n\nMar 3: Allison K Williams\, Reaction\, Reflection\, Narrative\n\n\n\nMar 10: Andrea A. Firth\, Submit Smarter\n\n\n\nMar 17: Tiffany Yates Martin\, Backstory\n\n\n\nMar 24: Brenda Miller and Holly J. Hughes\, Mindfulness and Writing\n\n\n\n\nApril \n\n\n\n\nApr 7: Katie Bannon\, How to End a Memoir\n\n\n\nApr 14: Allison K Williams\, Spiral Structure Scenes\n\n\n\nApr 21: Ethan Gilsdorf\, The Braided and Research Essay\n\n\n\nApr 28: Brenda Miller\, Speculation and Creative Nonfiction: Embracing Imagination\n\n\n\n\nMay \n\n\n\n\nMay 5: David Wogahn\, Self-Publishing Foundations\n\n\n\nMay 12: Laraine Herring\, Remembering Your Why: Inspiration\, Hope\, and Strategy for Writers in Unstable Times\n\n\n\nMay 19: Tiffany Yates Martin\, Flashback\n\n\n\nMay 26: Brenda Miller\, Micro and Flash: Writing Small to Write Big\n\n\n\n\nJune \n\n\n\n\nJun 2: Andrea A. Firth\, What Makes an Essay Unforgettable? Lessons from the Best of Contemporary Nonfiction\n\n\n\nJun 9: Allison K Williams\, Write Your Synopsis\n\n\n\nJun 16: Bethany Jarmul\, Level Up Your Writing: Sentence-Level Revision Strategies\n\n\n\nJun 23: Tiffany Yates Martin\, Context and Specificity\n\n\n\nJun 30: Ethan Gilsdorf\, TBD\n\n\n\n\nTopics and dates are subject to change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant a season of learning\, feedback\, and progress?It’s already on the calendar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Fine Print\n\n\n\n✨ This is a limited opportunity\, and we’re excited about our commitment to you! \n\n\n\n📅 Can’t attend live? No worries! You’ll always get the recording and can download the webinars to watch at your convenience. \n\n\n\n🚫 No refunds after Jan 6\, 2027. \n\n\n\n❌ The Season Pass does not include seminars\, intensives\, workshops\, or masterclasses. \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\n\n\nLocation
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