How to Market Your Book Without Losing Your Mind, Writing Place Workshop This Weekend and Mini Fall Preview
Write or Die Weekly #35
Free Event Spotlight
Author Marketing FUNdamentals Craft Chat: Patience, Passion, and Perseverance with and Gage Saylor of Split/Lip Press
Date: August 19 from 7:00 - 8:00 PM (Eastern time)
In the midst of a constantly shifting media landscape, what are the best ways to connect with readers and share your work with the world?
In this 1 hour craft chat, join Split/Lip Press Marketing Directors Gage Saylor and Abigail Oswald as they share a few tips and tricks for marketing a book without losing your mind!
Workshop happening this weekend!
This is the Place: Mapping Memory and Home in Regional Writing with Kristen Arnett
When: Sunday, July 28 from 1:00 - 4:00 PM (EST)
Writing about place and home that has "main character syndrome."
Dorothy Allison once wrote that “Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.” Part of writing regionally means discovering the things that you thought you knew about your memory and perception are colored and distorted by the environment that shaped you. In regional writing, setting is key. How is home constructed in place narrative? Through application of all five senses? Does it require thinking of place as character?
What you will learn
To hone the craft of writing place scenes
To hone the craft of reading place scenes
To explore the nuances and intersections of how "home" works in various types of creative writing and in pop culture/media
Workshop takeaways
Students will leave with generated work, further reading, further writing prompts, and a better sense of how to read/write place and home in regional work
*This workshop will be recorded for the convenience of those unable to attend live. The recorded session will be emailed to participants the following day.
August Workshops
*Scholarships are available for Write or Die workshops. Click here for more details.
August 17 from 1:00 - 4:00 PM (Eastern time)
Writing the Self: Small Mirrors, Mouths, & Movements with Shaina Phenix
This 3-hour workshop asks that you write yourself—things you observe, feel, understand, and ways that you move through and experience the world.
Here we aim to exalt the every day, to dissect the abounding, to say the things we might not otherwise say, to see where it takes us. This course is interested in the essayette, the cronica, the prose poem, or any other smallish iteration of the personal narrative. We hope to use these small vessels to take magnifying glasses to our memories, movements, and meditations.
*This workshop will be recorded if you can’t attend live!
August 31 & September 7th from 1:00 - 4:00 PM (EST) —[[NEW DATES AND PRICE!!]]
Fiction Writer's Workshop for Healing with Emily Jon Tobias
Let your wounded characters heal and transform you as the writer in the process. The sacred process of story writing is an act of creation that facilitates radical healing.
In this 2 week workshop, students will learn the foundations of story structure including character roles and how they function (protagonist, antagonist, catalyst, etc.); how to determine a character's emotional wound; how to use these wounds to understand characters' feelings and how to use emotion to develop a character's narrative timeline; how to ask characters "why", and how to use those answers to better understand and care for the writer within; and, how to become inspired by what our characters teach us.
*This workshop will be recorded if you can’t attend live!
Mini Fall Workshop Preview
Queer Imagination with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
Date: September 5 from 7- 9 PM EST
Learn to create queer narratives beyond surface-level content by experimenting with form, language, and structure.
Writing the Subversive Rom-Com with Lauren Veloski
Dates: September 15 - October 13 (5 week class that meets once a week)
Learn to dissect and subvert traditional rom-com tropes, write original and revolutionary scripts, and reinvent on-screen romance for the modern era.
The Write Together Retreat featuring Lauren Kay
Date: September 14 from 11 am - 3:30 pm EST
Join us for a day of writing during our monthly virtual retreat! You will have the opportunity to write alongside other writers in real time and learn from authors in the industry. This will be a time of encouragement and a chance to make real progress!
Marketing Your Small Press Book with Elle Nash
Date: September 21 from 11 am - 2 pm EST
Learn to DIY your book's publicity, from crafting a press kit to pitching yourself for events, and make the most of your small press publication.
Yay!! Can't wait!