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SUMMARY:REPLAY | Writing Through the Lens: Think Like a Photographer to Craft Compelling Scenes
DESCRIPTION:Struggling with writing scenes or recreating lost memories? Thinking like a photographer can help.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES: VIDEO\, CHAT\, PROMPTS\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT   \n\n\n\nNot included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nImages can be a remarkable tool for creative nonfiction writers. Photographers use vivid prose to describe their work\, and the techniques they use to create inspired\, memorable photos can have the same effect on your writing. \n\n\n\nAs memoirists\, we choose what events and moments belong in our work. Photographers make similar decisions when composing images\, and the elements that make a picture memorable and meaningful are often the result of choices that the casual observer doesn’t even realize the person behind the camera is making. Whether you’re writing a memoir or creative nonfiction\, photographs can be a powerful tool to help you not only tap into what is happening but also show the reader why these scenes are taking place. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will examine samples of memoir and essay that draw upon photographs to deepen scenes and characters\, and you will learn how to use these practical techniques in your own storytelling. \n\n\n\nRegistrants will receive a handout with prompts and actionable tips. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN to read photographs in order to better understand composition of scenes\n\n\n\nDRAW inspiration from two-dimensional images to “frame” your own scenes\n\n\n\nLEARN how to create compelling prose that draws your reader into your story \n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for creative nonfiction writers who are struggling to make old memories or family tales come to life.\n\n\n\nThe live event happened in November 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrace Hwang Lynch is a storyteller in journalism\, essays\, and photography. Her work can be found on outlets including Tin House\, Catapult\, and NPR. Her food memoir How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family will be published in early 2027 by Regalo Press. Website: www.gracehwanglynch.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Making Memoir Real: Captivate Your Readers with Dynamic Settings & Characters
DESCRIPTION:Dropping our readers into a particular time\, a particular place\, populated by particular people\, is essential to making readers care about our stories. Learn to create vibrant\, convincing reality on the page.\n\n\n\nFor Memoirist and Essay Writers \n\n\n\nMemoir is a juggling act. As writers\, our job is to bring the potent emotional stakes of our story to the page right from the beginning\, introducing conflicts and launching the book’s dynamic journey. But equally important is establishing the story’s reality and dropping our readers into a particular time\, a particular place\, populated by particular people. This is how readers begin to care deeply and invest their hearts in our work. \n\n\n\nThis interactive webinar will closely examine the techniques of setting and characterization—often taught in fiction workshops—and how important they are to memoir. We will study the difference between mere “description” and active\, dynamic detail and movement. Prompts will be provided for new work and for work-in-progress. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how to transplant readers directly into the world of your memoir through vivid\, specific detail\n\n\n\nLEARN the craft of characterization techniques borrowed from fiction and applied to true stories\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the difference between static description and dynamic\, active detail that propels your narrative forward\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing prompts designed to deepen both new work and works-in-progress\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how to establish emotional stakes early while simultaneously grounding readers in time\, place\, and character\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who…\n\n\n\n\nwould  like their work to immediately capture attention\, to engage agents\, editors and—most of all—readers\n\n\n\nstruggle with “Why would anyone care about my story?”\n\n\n\nworry their prose is moving too slowly\, that they may be “explaining too much” and showing too little\n\n\n\nare insecure about their storytelling skills (that’s all of us)!\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of our most popular and beloved presenters\, DINTY W. MOORE\, is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer\, among other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, Short Reads\, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity\, the journal of flash nonfiction. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Give Sorrow Words: Grief Writing as Sanctuary
DESCRIPTION:Learn to write compelling pieces that go beyond self-healing to provide paths through grief and sanctuary for your readers.\n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturday & Sunday\, June 6-7 | 1:00-3:00 pm EDTFor All Writers \n\n\n\nArt serves a vital role as witness to events and emotions we have trouble naming. We know which poem arrived at just the right time in our lives\, which song helped us imagine a path through deep feelings\, and which book helped us navigate our grief. \n\n\n\nBut what makes those pieces resonate in readers’ hearts? How does writing foster empathy? How can language\, with its strengths and inadequacies\, help us build sanctuaries within ourselves and where others can go to be witnessed and held? \n\n\n\nTaught by one of our most knowledgeable and empathetic presenters\, this deeply experiential seminar is a hybrid of generative writing and craft conversation. We’ll begin with a gentle writing practice to help you gather the glimmers of your own grief; then move into craft conversation and generative writing portals. grief\, \n\n\n\nWe’ll discuss key craft elements in published poetry\, how they can elevate emotional subjects from sentimentality to specificity\, and connect readers to an emotional experience.   \n\n\n\nWe’ll examine a variety of grieving experiences through the lenses of reckoning\, regret\, remembrance\, ritual\, revitalization\, and restoring (re-story-ing). This framework will offer six possible portals into exploring and writing about your own grief\, creating a sanctuary for your soul and the souls of others.  \n\n\n\nWe will have space for optional sharing at the end. In the seminar’s confirmation email\, you’ll receive a packet of recommended prep work\, containing additional optional readings and links to (very) short films on grief. After the class\, you’ll receive the seminar recording\, slide deck\, and all poems used for our conversation. \n\n\n\nPlease be prepared to write. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this interactive 2-Day live seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN key craft elements that help dramatize emotion\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND the difference between sentimentality and sentiment\n\n\n\nANALYZE poems addressing different aspects of grief\n\n\n\nENGAGE with your own grief to create six new portals to longer work\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing through different lenses on grief\n\n\n\nIMAGINE how writing can serve as sanctuary to self and others\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for writers in all genres who are interested in using language to help meet personal and collective grief.\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the event. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFunny\, kind\, and direct\, Laraine Herring is a popular CRAFT TALKS presenter and one of our strongest voices on deeply personal writing that powerfully connects with readers. \n\n\n\nLaraine’s memoir\, A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens\, was released in 2021 from Regal House. She’s the editor of the anthology Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined through Speculative Nonfiction (Pact Press\, 2024)\, and a trilogy of writing books from Shambhala\, including Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice. A retired professor of creative writing and psychology\, Lariane has worked with writers for thirty years. She’s also an illustrator and a grief counselor\, and creator of The Grief Forest: a book about what we don’t talk about. She founded the online ‘zine Hags on Fire\, a place for women to share stories about menopause\, and co-designed The Imaginal Memoir Cave immersion program with Gayle Brandeis. Laraine’s work has appeared in The New York Times\, Tiferet\, The Rumpus\, The Manifest-Station\, and many more. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology and lives in the mountains of northern Arizona with many cats. \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Laraine helped my book tell me what it wants to be and challenged me to do the work to get it there. I am grateful for her intuitive\, empathic\, supportive approach\, and for her enthusiasm when I arrived at the realizations she was hoping I’d get to as I did that work. Laraine’s skills are many\, and she is fantastic to work with. She is dedicated\, direct\, detailed\, dependable\, and delightful.” \n\n\n\n— Meg Weber\, author of A Year of Mr. Lucky (Sincyr Publishing) \n\n\n\n“Through Laraine’s authentic nature and ability to listen\, I learned that writing is as much an act of bravery and strength as it is about being gentle and flexible. I can’t wait to be one of her students again!” \n\n\n\n— Naomi Kaplan \n\n\n\n“Without a doubt\, Laraine is the most generous\, inspirational and challenging writing instructor I have ever met. Using provocative writing exercises\, she guided me through creative discovery\, helping reveal ideas and truths I had previously locked away. She challenged me to delve deeper into my story\, even if it meant going into the dark hidden corners.” \n\n\n\n— Janine Weyers \n\n\n\n“Laraine opened doors inside my mind and created space for me to come into relationship with my writing in a refreshing way that was all my own. I had more than one breakthrough working with her. With ease and honesty\, she created an authentic\, interesting and inviting space to grow.” \n\n\n\n— Grace Welker \n\n\n\n“Laraine encourages students to dig deep. She provides original\, interesting exercises designed to pull past the first obvious idea and find the more compelling material underneath. She is as invested in students’ work as the students themselves.” \n\n\n\n— Janet Burrue \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/give-sorrow-words/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Self-Publishing Foundations: Prepare\, Plan and Promote for Long-term Success
DESCRIPTION:Savvy book marketers know that successful promotion starts long before publication.\n\n\n\nAll Genres \n\n\n\nSet yourself up for lasting success with key decisions to make and actions every self-publishing author should take before publication—steps that significantly impact how well your book will market once it’s out in the world. While these elements aren’t always labeled as “marketing\,” neglecting them can limit your book’s reach and longevity. \n\n\n\nWhat can you do when you’re not active on social media (and should you be)? When marketing\, where should you spend and where should you save? How can you connect with other authors as colleagues\, early readers\, and potential blurbs? Through David’s expert experience and case studies showing how people with limited free time put these principles to work to achieve their goals\, you’ll understand how to weave marketing strategy into the publishing process itself so your book launches stronger and stays marketable for the long haul. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN the “forever decisions”: the 9 things you cannot change without republishing your book.\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND the 5 types of comp titles research and how each contributes to a successful launch.\n\n\n\nDISCOVER why creating a distribution plan is the first and most important step in self-publishing.\n\n\n\nGET THE NITTY-GRITTY on how to coordinate print book pre-ordering using IngramSpark and Amazon KDP to meet deadlines\, make/save money\, and avoid publishing the wrong version of your book.\n\n\n\nLEARN the A-B-C list method for reaching testimonial writers\, influencers\, and readers/buyers.\n\n\n\nFORMULATE a review strategy: a framework for seeking and using editorial and customer reviews during book preparation.\n\n\n\nKNOW HOW TO LEVERAGE the strengths of self-publishing when it comes to distribution\, pricing\, media outreach\, and contacting influencers.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for Writers who…\n\n\n\n\nWonder if self-publishing is right for them\n\n\n\nNeed to know more about self-directed marketing\, even if they’re publishing traditionally\n\n\n\nWant to build connections with readers long before their book is released\n\n\n\nUnderstand better with detailed case studies of how other authors “did it”\n\n\n\nDon’t have vast sums of money for marketing\, or vast amounts of time to spend online\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nOriginally presented on June 3\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Wogahn is the author of six self-published books\, including the Countdown to Book Launch® series of publishing guides and the Before the Launch workbook. In 2012\, he became the author of the first LinkedIn Learning course on the topic of self-publishing (Lynda.com at the time).David is a frequent speaker and trainer and has given presentations for the Independent Book Publishers Association\, IBPA Publishing University\, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)\, the Independent Writers of Southern California\, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference\, and Jane Friedman\, among other publishing professional organizations.Before founding the author services firm AuthorImprints.com in 2011\, David worked for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and the Los Angeles Times\, and was co-founder and COO of the first online publisher of sports-team branded websites known today as the CBS College Sports Network. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Artful Intelligence: What the Rise of AI Can Teach Us about Great Writing
DESCRIPTION:In all the hype and paranoia around AI\, it’s still our flawed\, funny\, and felt humanity that brings art into the world.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Nonfiction\, and Poetry \n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence can’t do what you can do because it doesn’t feel what you feel. Learn to harness those feelings to make original and unforgettable human art.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll explore AI via literature and writing\, with an overview of how chatbots produce “original” works\, trends in publishing and marketing related to the rise of AI\, and what artificial writing can teach us about our own\, human craft.  \n\n\n\nAs part of our investigation\, we’ll study technical aspects of AI to learn how it works and how to detect its usage. And we’ll examine how our own response to the emergence of AI can help us contend with the social\, moral\, and aesthetic challenges posed by advancements in technology.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will allay your fears over AI taking over the world—or at least taking over the writing world—and putting all of us creative writers out of business. No prior technical knowledge is required—only a passion for reading\, exploring how technology shapes storytelling\, and uncovering how human stories shape technology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND how so-called Artificial Intelligence actually writes\n\n\n\nEXPLORE what AI reveals about writing formulas and clichés to avoid in our own work\n\n\n\nLEARN how to write\, publish\, and stand out in a world beset by emerging technologies\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for beginning and intermediate writers who …\n\n\n\n\nworry about AI and its impacts on their own writing and prospects for publication\n\n\n\nseek to make their own work more original and attention-grabbing\n\n\n\nwant to recognize AI “in the wild” and understand its use as a tool\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\nJaswinder Bolina’s superpower is translating complicated ideas into conversational\, humorous sessions that students find transformational for their 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).  \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/artful-intelligence/
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Get Your Book Unstuck: How to Fall Back in Love with Your Manuscript
DESCRIPTION:Reconnect with the energy\, spark\, and joy that compelled you to tell this story in the first place — and discover the strategies to move your manuscript toward publication.\n\n\n\nFor Memoirist \n\n\n\nYou needed to tell this story. There was heat in it—urgency and the conviction that you have something important to say. But somewhere in the months or years of drafting and revising\, that heat got harder to find. Now\, sitting down with the manuscript feels like a chore\, and the work that used to excite you feels like pulling teeth. \n\n\n\nThis is one of the most common and least talked-about challenges in long-form writing: not a craft problem\, but a relationship problem. When revision starts to feel like spinning your wheels rather than making meaningful progress\, resistance builds. Once that resistance takes hold\, the deep\, generative work a draft needs to evolve becomes nearly impossible. \n\n\n\nThis seminar will change that. We’ll explore how to reconnect with the heat that compelled you to write this story\, how to treat revision like play again\, and how to experiment with your material in fresh and exciting ways. You’ll leave the seminar with a renewed relationship to your manuscript and a concrete plan for what comes next. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this interactive three-hour live seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER what’s still alive in your manuscript and use those moments as your entry point back into the work\n\n\n\nLEARN to treat revision as exploration rather than correction\, so the process feels generative instead of draining\n\n\n\nEXPLORE concrete strategies for experimenting with structure\, perspective\, and form\, and shake loose new possibilities\n\n\n\nRECONNECT with the heat that compelled you to tell this story and use that energy to move your draft into its next evolution\n\n\n\nLEAVE with renewed excitement about your manuscript and a concrete plan for what to work on next\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\ndread opening their manuscript instead of looking forward to it\n\n\n\nfeel stuck in a cycle of revision that isn’t moving the work forward\n\n\n\nwant to approach their manuscript differently but aren’t sure what that looks like\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the event. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA lively and insightful speaker who brings new energy to CRAFT TALKS writers\, Katie 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.  \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Katie is the best writing instructor I have ever had. Her presentation was impeccable. She provided an abundance of ideas\, details\, examples\, and information. In fact\, the class was overflowing with information. I have nothing but praise for Katie and the class content.”“Katie was an amazing instructor. She explained core concepts with clarity and ease\, provided excellent examples and writing samples\, and created a very supportive learning environment. The class truly exceeded my expectations!” \n\n\n\n“Holy moly\, this was a superb class. Instructor was well-prepared with lots of valuable and well-organized information and ideas. I have already begun applying some of the tools from class to revise—and what a difference it’s making!” \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Poetry\, Prose\, or Both? Writing and Publishing a Hybrid Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Crossing genres can be an obstacle—or a selling point. Explore the craft of writing and the art of pitching a memoir that wants both poetry and prose.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Poetry\, and Hybrid \n\n\n\nSometimes a moment demands the compression of a poem. Sometimes it needs room to breathe in prose. But what happens when your memoir wants both? In this webinar\, we’ll explore the craft of hybrid memoir—how to recognize when a piece is calling for verse versus essay\, how to let both forms coexist without flattening or repeating yourself\, and how each genre can do work the other can’t.We’ll also tackle the practical challenges of bringing hybrid and multi-genre work to publication: how to structure the manuscript\, how to describe it in a query\, how to find receptive publishers\, and how to talk about your book when it defies easy categorization.Drawing from Brenda’s experience writing and placing Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems (Skinner House Books\, April 2026)\, she’ll share both the creative and publishing lessons learned along the way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN to recognize when a moment\, image\, or memory wants to be a poem or an essay\n\n\n\nGAIN permission to try different forms and genres for the same material\n\n\n\nDISCOVER strategies for letting poetry and prose speak to each other without redundancy\n\n\n\nEXPLORE organizing principles for a hybrid manuscript\n\n\n\nPRACTICE language for describing multi-genre work to agents\, editors\, and readers\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY which presses are most open to unconventional memoir forms\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for…\n\n\n\n\nwriters who enjoy the freedom to explore more than one genre at once (and want to feel better about it!)\n\n\n\nanyone who has wondered: “Is this a poem or is this an essay?”—and suspected the answer might be “yes”\n\n\n\n writers working on a book that feels like “essays” and “memoir” and “maybe poetry” all at once\n\n\n\nanyone who has been told their manuscript is “hard to categorize” or “difficult to shelve”\n\n\n\nthose preparing to query or submit a multi-genre project and unsure how to describe it\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrenda Miller is noted for making form “feel like a gift\, not a constraint” and teaches as “a wise friend who’s read everything and still gets excited about a well-placed line break.” Warm\, practical\, and full of “what ifs\,” Brenda’s sessions are full of the mutual joy of discovery.  \n\n\n\nBrenda Miller’s new hybrid collection\, Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems\, is just out from Skinner House Books (April 2026). She is the author of six additional essay collections\, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form\, andAn Earlier Life\, winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. She co-authored\, with Holly J. Hughes\, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World\, and\, with Suzanne Paola\, Tell It Slant: Creating\, Refining\, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction\, now in its third edition. She coined the term “Hermit Crab Essay.” Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/poetry-prose-or-both/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Bringing Back the Backlist: Reviving Your Books for a New Audience with Christopher Buehlman
DESCRIPTION:What do you do when a book you believe in didn’t find its readers the first time around?\n\n\n\nPublishing trends\, author persistence\, and smart strategy can give a great book the life it deserves.  \n\n\n\nMany authors have one — a book that came out quietly\, got lost in the noise\, or simply arrived before its moment. And every author wonders: is it gone for good\, or can I bring it back? \n\n\n\nChristopher Buehlman\, author of successful fantasy novels The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters War knows both sides of that question. His novel Between Two Fires — a harrowing\, visionary journey through plague-ravaged medieval France — was published in 2012 to critical acclaim and then waited\, mostly quietly\, for the world to catch up. Now\, 14 years later\, it’s a New York Times Bestseller\, acquired by Tor and re-released in March 2026. That’s not luck. That’s an author who stayed in the game\, kept writing\, kept building\, and understood how publishing actually works over time. \n\n\n\nWe’ll talk about the long arc of a writing career\, what it takes to keep your backlist alive and findable\, how to recognize when publishing trends are moving in your favor\, and what authors can do right now to make sure their best work gets the second chance it deserves. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY JUNE 30 at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Buehlman is the New York Times bestselling author of Between Two Fires\, The Blacktongue Thief\, The Daughters’ War\, The Lesser Dead\, The Necromancer’s House\, The Suicide Motor Club\, and Those Across the River. Writing at the intersection of horror and fantasy with wit\, grit\, and genuine literary ambition\, he has built a devoted readership across more than a decade of publishing. He escaped Florida via sarcasm and dark fiction\, and has never looked back. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for this lively\, funny hour of frank talk about writing careers\, publishing realities\, and books that refuse to stay dead. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book\, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/bridge-backlist/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writers Bridge
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