Learn How to Balance the Creative and Business Sides of Writing + April's Fire Workshop Line Up
Write or Die Weekly #21
Free Workshop with Alex Baia of Slackjaw
You Can Be Funny Now: How To Start Writing Humor
Date: Saturday, May 11
Time: 1 - 2 PM EST
*This workshop will be recorded for those who can’t attend live!
Many people dream of writing and publishing funny stuff. Is that you? Good, because this workshop will get you writing humor FAST!
Whether you're new to writing humor or you have been dabbling at it for a while, this workshop is for you.
Workshops Happening this Weekend!
Saturday, April 13 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST)
Small Press Publishing with a Debut Seminar with Emily Jon Tobias
Looking for a publisher to call home for your manuscript? Emily Jon Tobias will share her successes and failures along the journey to find a home for her debut story collection, MONARCH. You will learn about writing query letters (agents vs. presses), tracking submissions, the research process, fees, red flags, green flags, how to best navigate technology with productive, simple tools, and, perhaps most importantly, how to handle the emotional pressure of rejection after rejection.
*This workshop will be recorded if you can’t attend live!
Sunday, April 14 from 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM (EST)
Land Big Bylines by Writing for Columns with
In this workshop, Courtney will explain the crux of popular columns for top publications. You'll do a brainstorming exercise for each, and there will be an opportunity to workshop your ideas and ask questions. You'll receive a list of potential columns and editor contact information for each. By the end, you'll have a game plan for landing your best bylines yet!
*This workshop will be recorded if you can’t attend live!
Learn How to Balance the Creative and Business Sides of Writing
The Write Together Retreat featuring Elle Nash and Sophia Hembeck
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!
The retreat also includes an hour long craft chat and Q&A session with Elle Nash and Sophia Hembeck who will discuss how they balance both the business and creative sides of their writing life.
They will talk about how they support themselves through multiple income streams and how, using Substack, social media, Patreon, and other ways, writers can develop ways to support their art.
Date: April 20th
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM EST
*Retreat Scholarships are available! Apply here
Upcoming Workshops
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April 20th & April 27th from 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Chasing the Chantable: A Two Week Intensive on Sonic Impact in Syntax with Ben Jahn
In this half-class/half-workshop, we'll study the sentence as a site of sound aesthetics and practice techniques to increase our syntax's sonic impact.
This class is for folks who hear “kill your darlings,” and think: but they’re all darlings! For people who see the sentence as its own aesthetic terrain, with tension and energy and momentum within and between each syllabic synapse. We’ll read and discuss the work of writers who do this—who write with and make us read with a tuned ear. Then we’ll practice the techniques in a workshop format.
April 27th from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Come Celebrate With Me: A Poetry Intensive with Arriel Vinson
Using Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me ” as a guide, this workshop will examine writing joy and celebration.
You’ll first look deeply at and discuss this poem, then read and discuss other celebratory poems/songs by BIPOC writers. Students will dig into how each celebratory work was created despite the dangers or harm each speaker faced, and how many factors of the world determine how we approach joy.
*This workshop will be recorded if you can’t attend live!
April 28 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST)
Exploring Sexuality & Motherhood in Writing with
In this 3 hour workshop, you will experiment with new techniques to explore sex and motherhood in your own writing. Writers will generate new questions about the intersections between motherhood/parenthood and sexuality, develop new terrain for exploration in their work, and gain new craft techniques for embodied, sensory writing.
May 1 - May 22 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
The Poetry Lab: Crafting and Critiquing in Community with Samuel Louis Spencer & McKinley Dirks
In this weekly workshop, we will convene to write, read, and revise our poetry.
This month-long program is designed to get poets thinking critically about each other's work in a judgment-free environment. Engage with other poets in the practice of prosody, polishing your poems until they are ready for publication (woah, alliteration!).