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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | More Than a Writer: How Other Roles Inform Our Craft
DESCRIPTION:You’re more than words on a page. How does your life inform your writing?\n\n\n\nThree authors\, three lives. \n\n\n\nOutside of our writing pursuits\, we all have other roles: as parents\, job-holders\, athletes\, volunteers\, activists\, etc. Writers often lament that these demands compete with our practice\, but how can they improve our craft? But how can we balance the lives that surround our writing with the work we create–and more than that\, how can our “regular” lives feed\, complement\, and support our creative process? \n\n\n\nBlair Glaser\, Jocelyn Jane Cox and Jaque Gorelick will share the surprising ways their extra obligations (and passions!) provide inspiration\, content\, and transferable skills\, and of course\, how they handle all the multitasking. Get practical advice and strategies to get words on the page\, not just in spite of your other roles but because of them. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY March 31st at 1PM EASTERN – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guests: \n\n\n\nBlair Glaser is a recovering psychotherapist\, executive leadership and career coach. Her essays have appeared in Longreads\, Shondaland\, Oldster\, Quartz\, HuffPost\, Inside Higher Ed\, and others\, as well as in literary magazines such as Brevity\, Scoop\, Rain Taxi\, and The Mantlepiece. She is the author of This Incredible Longing: Finding Myself in a Near-cult Experience (Heliotrope\, 2026).  \n\n\n\nJocelyn Jane Cox was a competitive figure skater who became a national-level coach\, balancing this role with her writing for over 25 years. She is the author of Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood\, Loss\, and Skating on Thin Ice (Vine Leaves\, 9/25). She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Slate\, The Offing\, and the Colorado Review\, among others. \n\n\n\nJacque Gorelick is an elementary school teacher turned writer who spent years helping students turn ideas into stories. Her essays about motherhood\, health\, education\, and estrangement appear in The New York Times\, Salon\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Pithead Chapel\, X-R-A-Y\, and The Kenyon Review. Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love\, Loss\, and Finding the Way Home (Vine Leaves Press 2026) is her debut.  \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guests for this lively\, funny hour of frank talk about publishing\, platform\, and always following your mission. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book\, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book\, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Pleasures of the Personal Essay: New Ideas\, Fresh Forms\, and Expanded Markets for Your Writing
DESCRIPTION:Fun\, flexible\, and highly marketable\, the personal essay is an ideal way to extend our range and add to our writer’s toolbox.\n\n\n\nFor Nonfiction and Essay Writers \n\n\n\nThe personal essay is perhaps the oldest form of nonfiction prose yet remains one of the most misunderstood. This wonderfully flexible and creative form is as alive and inventive as the writer wishes it to be. More than memoir\, but able to include elements of one’s own life experience\, the essay remains an ideal vehicle for satisfying the human urge to not just live year to year\, but to capture a bit of our relationship to the world. \n\n\n\nWhat is an essay? Just this: the personal essayist takes a topic—virtually any topic under the big yellow sun—and holds it up to the bright light\, turning it this way and that\, upside and down\, studying every perspective\, fault\, and reflection in an artful attempt to perceive something fresh and significant. But it is always an effort\, a trial\, an assay\, not a lecture or diatribe. In the hands of contemporary practitioners such as Rebecca Solnit and Roxane Gay\, the personal essay at its best is an idiosyncratic combination of the author’s discrete sensibilities and the endless possibilities of meaning and connection.  \n\n\n\nIn this 90-minute course\, noted essayist and editor Dinty W. Moore will guide you through examples of the myriad forms that an essay can take\, will survey the infinite range of possible topics\, and will leave you with useful prompts to help you determine your own essayistic opportunities. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the myriad ways the essay fits into both literary and commercial publishing\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how the flexibility of the personal essay form can help with “stuckness”\n\n\n\nRECONSIDER The role of research (and how it can be more fun than chore)\n\n\n\nLEARN how to find the best markets (literary magazines and beyond)\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who\n\n\n\n\nwant to expand their skills and opportunities\n\n\n\nare looking for new ideas and fresh topics\n\n\n\nwant to grasp the idea of “memoir-plus”\n\n\n\nfeel “stuck” writing their memoir\n\n\n\nwouldn’t mind getting paid every once in a while\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of our most popular and beloved presenters\, DINTY W. MOORE\, is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It\, and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer\, among other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, Short Reads\, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity\, the journal of flash nonfiction. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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