Free Events
On March 20th, we welcome Steve Almond for The Ultimate Craft Chat! This craft chat will provide the ultimate cheat code to a story, not just in the form of a lecture but by opening the floor to any questions you might bring about your own work!
On May 11TH, join Alex Baia, humor writer and editor of Slackjaw, for a free workshop, You Can Be Funny Now: How To Start Writing Humor! Whether you're new to writing humor or you have been dabbling at it for a while, this workshop is for you. Details here
*Scholarships are available for Write or Die workshops. Click here for more details.
Featured Opportunity of the Week
The Write Together Retreat: Motherhood Edition featuring Aimee Suzara
When: Saturday, March 23
Time: 11:00 AM- 3:30 PM EST
Where: Zoom
Details: Join us for a day of writing during our monthly virtual retreat! This special edition is for the moms! Our featured writer, Aimee Suzara, will provide a special craft chat and Q&A session on the 'labor of othering'—a concept tied to the often invisible tasks associated with caregiving and work, and how these responsibilities can conflict with or undermine one's creative practice.
If you need something to get started, Tamar and Kailey will provide generative prompts at the top of each writing hour.
Bring your ideas, your drafts, or your revisions and we will use this precious time together to get some writing done.
Schedule:
11:00 AM: Welcome with Kailey and Tamar
11:15 -12:15 PM: First writing session
12:15 -12:30 PM: Break
12:30 - 1:30 PM: Second writing session
1:30 -2:00 PM: Break
2:00-3:15 PM: Aimee author chat
3:15-3:30 PM: Wrap up and conversation with Kailey and Tamar
*Retreat Scholarships are available! Apply here
Workshop Recently Added
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.
More Upcoming Workshops
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.
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!
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.
“Courtney will explain the crux of popular columns for top publications…” Would you share which publications? Thanks 🙏🏻