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SUMMARY:REPLAY | Organize Your Writing Life: Get UNstuck in 2026
DESCRIPTION:Tired of feeling guilty about unfinished work? Stop drowning in drafts. You need a mission and a map to cross the finish line.\n\n\n\nFor All Writers | TO BE SENT ON MONDAY 1/12/26 \n\n\n\nNew year\, new plan—what kind of writer do you want to be? What book are you dying to start (or finish!) What’s the mission that will get you going to bring your words into the world? And is FINAL-final-draft-6B.doc the most recent manuscript? (it’s been a few weeks since you sat down!) \n\n\n\nHere’s the truth: if you start with “organizing” you’ll never get finished. What you need is a practical\, flexible approach that meets your actual life and fits your limited calendar. To cut through the overwhelm and focus on the story you want to tell and the readers you need to reach. And of course\, a specific list of the steps to take to get from draft to done. \n\n\n\nIn this 90-minute webinar with Allison K Williams\, get clear on your goals and learn how tomerge linear planning with creative flexibility to organize your files and your projects. You’ll set (doable!) goals that matter and learn patterns to stay focused on your project despite the demands of work\, family and home. You’ll get tips and tricks to stay motivated and confident when you’re not getting much feedback\, and easy\, free ways to connect with other writers. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will learn:\n\n\n\n\nThe Brain Dump Method: How to get every project\, idea\, and obligation out of your head and onto paper—then decide what actually matters (and what you can let go)\n\n\n\nThe Lifeboat: A powerful technique to identify which project deserves your focus right now\, even when you’re torn between multiple manuscripts\n\n\n\nA 5-minute technique to organize ALL your digital files: find what you need in 30 seconds\, not 30 minutes!\n\n\n\nProject planning for creative minds: How to map your manuscript structure using sticky notes\, index cards\, or digital tools—and why treating each scene as its own accomplishment changes everything\n\n\n\nUnderstanding your creative energy\, bravery\, and commitment—and how to stop spending them in the wrong places\n\n\n\nHow to balance research and writing: The revolutionary way to store and use your research without getting sucked into rabbit holes \n\n\n\nCreating habits that stick: The “if-then” formula that gets you writing\, and why your tiny\, frightened lizard brain needs to hear “I’ll come back\, I promise”\n\n\n\nYour platform is your writing: How to build author presence without taking focus off your writing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for… \n\n\n\n\nFiction\, nonfiction and memoir writers with a manuscript at any stage—started\, murky middle\, revisions\, or just a compelling idea demanding your attention\n\n\n\nThose building a writing side hustle—teaching\, editing\, coaching—and need strategies to balance the paid work with your own creative projects\n\n\n\nCreatives juggling multiple unfinished projects who need clarity on which one to prioritize\n\n\n\nWriters with child/family/caregiver obligations who just can’t see where the time will come from \n\n\n\nWriters with disabilities or neurodivergence that hinder writing time\, focus or stamina\n\n\n\nWriters who want to form and define their writing life through conscious practice\n\n\n\nCreative Writing students and MFA graduates having a hard time writing without external deadlines\n\n\n\nWriters who alternate between prolific writing binges and “hitting a wall” or getting creatively blocked\n\n\n\n\nNot for people who have their lives\, their time\, and their schedule 100% together and everything is fine! (Please\, tell us how!) \n\n\n\nYou’ll receive:\n\n\n\n\nWorksheets to plan your time\, rank your priorities\, and determine which project will be your focus this year\n\n\n\nPDF of the slides from the workshop\n\n\n\nAccess to daily FREE co-writing sessions\, all year long\n\n\n\nA renewed sense of purpose in your writing.\n\n\n\n\nThis isn’t about becoming someone who has it all together. It’s about becoming someone who makes progress despite not having it all together. Because that’s the only way any of us actually finish books. \n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams is the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro From Blank Page to Book. She has edited and coached writers to publishing deals with Big Five\, independent & literary presses. She’s guided essayists and humorists to publications including the New Yorker\, Time\, the Guardian\, the New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, Refinery29\, Hippocampus\, the Belladonna and TED Talks. Her own writing on travel\, craft\, culture and comedy has appeared in/on National Public Radio\, CBC-Canada\, the New York Times\, the Christian Science Monitor\, Writers Digest\, Creative Nonfiction\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Kenyon Review Online\, Travelers’ Tales and Flash Nonfiction Funny. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/organize-your-writing-life/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Self vs. Self: Writing Your Best Essays from Contradictions
DESCRIPTION:The confusions and contradictions you notice in yourself and the world are your richest source of material.\n\n\n\nFor essayists and creative nonfiction writers | Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nAs humans\, we seek certainty. As writers\, diving into the messiness of our own opinions creates our most powerful work. Transcendent\, complex works of nonfiction often depend on confusions and contradictions. A writer can intentionally build tension in an essay by identifying and illuminating paradox\, contradiction\, and incongruity in oneself\, one’s subject\, one’s culture\, and the world. Leaning into and exploring contradiction is often the difference between a simple\, underdeveloped draft and a powerful\, published essay\, article\, or memoir.  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll examine works of nonfiction\, including Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz (a memoir of grief and joy intertwined)\, to learn how authors establish and contend with opposite principles\, conflicting perspectives\, and subjects that seemingly clash. You’ll also generate your own list of contradictions you can return to time and again for inspiration. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the works of master nonfiction essayists and memoirists to see how to utilize contradictions thematically and stylistically\n\n\n\nDISCOVER why paradox and confusion make the richest material\n\n\n\nPRACTICE making your own lists of contradictions for future inspiration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou should take this webinar if… \n\n\n\n\nYou are an intermediate or advanced writer who wants to dig beneath the obvious stories you’ve been telling\n\n\n\nYou need help generating material\n\n\n\nYou want to add depth\, tension\, and nuance to your essays and nonfiction\n\n\n\nYou are eager to clarify (rather than avoid) the contradictions that shape your voice\n\n\n\nYou are writing on grief\, loss\, or other strong subjects\, and it’s difficult to find the tension or dramatic arc beyond one set of powerful feelings\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLindsey DeLoach Jones is a writer living in Greenville\, South Carolina. She writes about the tension between seemingly opposed forces—the spiritual and the practical\, the mysterious and the mundane\, the Mother and the Artist—in her Substack\, Between Two Things. \n\n\n\nLindsey holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and has served as the Writer-in-Residence at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts. She has taught literature and writing at Clemson University and currently teaches writing online and in person at Writeshare\, the writers’ network she co-founded in Upstate SC. She previously served as Editor of Emrys Journal and Edible Upcountry. Among other places\, Lindsey’s essays have appeared in HuffPost\, HuffPost Parenting\, Split Lip\, Under the Gum Tree\, and Motherwell. She is a recipient of the Vandermey Nonfiction Prize\, and an essay nominated by Pigeon Pages was a finalist for Best of the Net. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/self-vs-self/
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Nailed It: Conceptualizing your Nonfiction Book 
DESCRIPTION:Clarify your book’s purpose\, identify its core message\, and develop an outline or structure for your book that aligns with your purpose.\n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturdays\, January 17th & 24th\, 2-5 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nFor Nonfiction\, Creative Nonfiction\, and Memoir writers \n\n\n\nFor over two decades\, Melissa Petro has helped hundreds of writers nail down the concept for their nonfiction books. A strong concept is the critical first step in writing a book\, yet so many writers either settle on a vague or underdeveloped idea—one that lacks a clear narrative thread or emotional/logical core—or skip this step altogether.  \n\n\n\nThis 2-day seminar focuses on you getting this step right. The intensive will combine lectures\, discussions\, readings\, and writing exercises. Together\, we’ll clarify your book’s purpose\, identify its core message\, and develop an outline or structure for your book that aligns with your purpose\, setting you up for the next stages of writing. \n\n\n\nParticipants will have the opportunity to submit a description of their project to the instructor for feedback. \n\n\n\nAdded bonus: senior agent Laura Mazer will join the second class\, giving participants a chance to workshop their concept live. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, you’ll:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the pros and cons of various publishing paths\, including Big Five\, indie\, hybrid\, and self-publishing.  \n\n\n\nIDENTIFY your potential primary and secondary audiences and discuss other aspects of market\, including premise and promise\, style\, voice\, and thesis\n\n\n\nDISCOVER competitive titles and other ways to demonstrate how a new book fits within the existing market\, helping agents\, editors\, and publishers understand its potential audience and sales viability. \n\n\n\nCREATE a chapter outline\, ensuring your chapters are in an order with a strong narrative arc and/or concepts that flow from one to the other or tell some kind of story. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for \n\n\n\n\nnonfiction writers interested in writing a book\n\n\n\nwriters who are stalled at any stage in the writing process\n\n\n\nanyone curious about the book-writing process\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss part of the class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after each session. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Petro is a freelance writer and the author of Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification\, published by Putnam Books\, a division of Penguin Random House. As a workshop facilitator\, she’s helped hundreds of people push through fear\, write\, share\, and even publish their most vulnerable stories in national publications such as The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, Salon\, The Washington Post\, and elsewhere\, and has helped still more individuals re-envision their lives by making meaning of their past and transcending traumatic experiences. \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Melissa Petro is an exceptional writing teacher. She masterfully balances support and challenge\, pushing her students to refine their work while offering insightful and encouraging feedback. Her unique blend of honesty\, kindness\, and fresh perspective makes her an invaluable guide for any aspiring writer.” – Jennifer S.  \n\n\n\n“I’m lucky to have found such a terrific mentor in Melissa. Her honest\, critical feedback has expanded my writing skills. She also shares her experience as a lifetime writer\, synthesizes how the industry operates\, and offers best practices for becoming a published author. I highly recommend any course Melissa offers.” – Shabana S.  \n\n\n\n“I always knew I wanted to be a writer but was too scared to commit to the work- working with Melissa not only held me accountable to finishing my memoir\, but made me a better writer. Every time we connected I knew I would be met with honest critique that pushed me past my comfort zone which is exactly what I needed.” – Shannon O.  \n\n\n\n“Melissa Petro gave me the expertise and encouragement needed to finally publish my writing. She has helped me to shape ideas\, pitches\, and drafts into essays for HuffPost\, Elle\, and Business Insider. Her mentorship has been incredibly valuable to me as a writer and a woman who is turning her most shameful secrets into compelling articles. She’s just the best there is.” – Katie N.  \n\n\n\n“Melissa Petro is an engaged\, knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher. She provided practical guidance\, while also giving us thoughtful personal feedback to each student. Highly recommend her class!” \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a full refund. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/seminar-nailed-it/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Newsletter Better: The Art & Craft of Sharing Your Work with Others
DESCRIPTION:Most newsletter advice focuses on platform choice\, schedules\, and metrics. This webinar starts with a more important question: why you want a newsletter at all—and how to build one that actually fits you.\n\n\n\nFor All Writers & Creatives | Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWe all want two things: 1) time and creative focus to write\, and 2) for the work we’ve poured ourselves into to land with the right reader and matter to them as much as it matters to us. One of the best ways to find and connect with those people is an email newsletter—but the process of making a newsletter can suck away our creative time. \n\n\n\nEmail newsletters are one of the most powerful\, versatile\, and human tools you have for finding readers and keeping them close. (We know this to be true because every build-your-author-platform article ever written since the dawn of the internet has said very clearly: YOU MUST HAVE AN EMAIL LIST.)  \n\n\n\nAnd yet\, you may not be sure how to begin\, what your newsletter should look like\, or why the emails you promised yourself (and your subscribers) you’d send every other week haven’t gone out in two years. It’s frustrating and confusing\, and most of the advice out there is an endless list of growth hacks and one-size-fits-all templates. None of which\, ironically\, actually fits you. \n\n\n\nThis 90-minute session invites you to see the newsletter not as a task to manage or a list to grow\, but as a durable creative practice that supports your writing life\, your career\, and your sense of connection over the long haul. We’ll explore why newsletters matter\, why they remain powerful even in a noisy digital landscape\, and how getting clear on your “why” makes every later decision—frequency\, format\, platform\, etc.—simpler and more sustainable. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nCLARIFY what a newsletter is actually for—and what it is not\n\n\n\nLEARN the major newsletter “shapes”\n\n\n\nEXPLORE real-world examples of successful newsletters across genres and approaches\n\n\n\nDISCOVER why newsletters outperform social media in trust\, engagement\, and longevity—and why “owning your assets” is crucial\n\n\n\nLEARN how to build audience on a believable\, sustainable timeline\n\n\n\nRETHINK newsletters as creative acts—extensions of your voice\, obsessions\, and service to your ideal readers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers and Creatives who…\n\n\n\n\nfeel overwhelmed or frustrated by conflicting advice about author platforms\n\n\n\nwant a newsletter that feels personal\, sustainable\, and human—not performative\n\n\n\nhave started (and stopped) a newsletter that felt like a chore rather than a choice\n\n\n\nknow they “should” have a newsletter but don’t know what they’d actually write … or why anyone would want to read it\n\n\n\nwant clarity and direction more than tactics and trends\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Knezovich is a marketing strategist who works with writers\, artists\, and arts nonprofits. He is the co-founder of the literary magazine Short Reads\, the marketing director and co-founder of Ascender Book Services\, the marketing strategist for Off Assignment\, a collage artist\, and the curator of two email newsletters: Read This and Gluu. He lives in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, with his wife and two kids. \n\n\n\nStephen’s philosophy is simple: marketing should be creative\, personal\, human—and sustainable. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/newsletter-better/
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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Social Media Simplified with Jane Friedman
DESCRIPTION:What online behavior actually moves the needle? What’s a waste of time?\n\n\n\nDiscover what’s new in social media for writers in 2026. \n\n\n\nShould you be on social media? Which platforms? Do you need video? What about a newsletter or a Substack?  \n\n\n\nJane Friedman has been writing and reporting on publishing since MySpace. She’s seen the rise and fall of Medium\, Twitter\, and many more. And she’s done the research and knows the numbers: does #BookTok actually sell books\, and which ones? Does it matter if you post video or stick to text? Is LinkedIn actually a social site? And what should be driving the choices you make about your writer platform?  \n\n\n\nCohost Allison K Williams co-founded The Writers Bridge and built platforms on Facebook\, Instagram\, Twitter (RIP) and is currently refusing to be sucked into BlueSky. She swears by an email list\, but needs to use it more effectively. And cohost Sharla Yates doesn’t do much social media at all–should she?  \n\n\n\nWe’ll talk about our own social media and platform-building dilemmas and YOURS on the next episode of The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY January 27th at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the book publishing industry\, with a focus on author education and trend reporting. She is the editor of The Bottom Line\, the essential publishing industry newsletter for authors\, and was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World in 2023. Her latest book is The Business of Being a Writer\, Second Edition (University of Chicago Press)\, which received a starred review from Library Journal. In addition to serving on grant panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Creative Work Fund\, she works with organizations such as The Authors Guild to bring transparency to the business of publishing. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for this lively\, funny hour of frank talk about writing comedy\, writing for TV\, and the wonderful chaos of the writers’ room. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book\, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Essays on the Writing Life: How to Write\, Publish\, and Get Noticed
DESCRIPTION:Essays on writing craft and the writing life are a great opportunity for you to get noticed—and published.\n\n\n\nFor All Writers | Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nThis may sound kind of meta (and it is)\, but writing about writing is a prime way for emerging and experienced writers to get published\, build platform\, develop their voice\, and join the literary communities they’d like to be part of.  \n\n\n\nIn this 75-minute live webinar\, Andrea\, an editor at The Brevity Blog\, will take you through the steps of how to write powerful\, thoughtful\, and fun essays using published examples from The Brevity Blog and other key literary outlets as a hands-on guide. \n\n\n\nAttendees will reflect on who they are as a writer\, what they write\, and what they’ve learned about writing and themselves. Andrea will present the wide range of potential topics for these essays and review the key elements and craft that help published pieces succeed and connect with readers. Considering your earlier reflection\, you’ll brainstorm ideas for essays you can write and how to approach them.  \n\n\n\nYou’ll take away a template to follow when writing about writing\, a list of potential outlets with detailed descriptions and tips for submitting\, and links to strong essay examples published in the outlets \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER what writing about writing means and the impact these essays have\n\n\n\nFIND potential essay topics that mine your own writing experience \n\n\n\nEXPLORE key elements to writing an engaging and insightful essay about writing craft\, writing process and your writing life\n\n\n\nLEARN why and how writing about writing leads to publication\, builds platform\, and grows your writing community.\n\n\n\nRECEIVE a list of potential outlets to target with your essays\, along with specific examples\n\n\n\nLEARN how to develop and (when required) submit a pitch for your essay\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for emerging and experienced writers who…\n\n\n\n\nwant  to get published\, gain readers\, and get noticed\n\n\n\nhave a longer work published or in process who want to build their platform and create awareness for their project\n\n\n\nwant to engage with and create a literary community\n\n\n\nwant to write about their art and writing process to establish and share their expertise\n\n\n\nwant to support and spread the word about their work as teacher\, editor\, or publisher\n\n\n\nwant to provoke thought on a writing topic or raise a call to action\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrea A. Firth is an essayist\, editor and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s an Editor at The Brevity Blog\, cofounder of Diablo Writers’ Workshop\, and has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Saint Mary’s College of California. Andrea has taught dozens of courses on a wide range of creative writing topics\, including how to submit and get published in literary magazines and commercial outlets. Her writing focus is personal essay\, which she writes about in her Substack newsletter Everything Essay!  \n\n\n\nAndrea was a finalist for The Missouri Review’s 2021 Perkoff Prize in creative nonfiction\, and her work has appeared in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes\, Allium\, Please See Me\, Motherwell\, The Coachella Review among others. Andrea leads a free\, monthly co-working session called Submit It Now! at Chill Subs\, and hopes you will join her there. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/essays-on-the-writing-life/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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