Interview with Annalisa Parent, author of Storytelling for Pantsers
Our speaker for Sunday September 19th Annalisa Parent helps writers to finish, publish and sell their novels. She owns and operates Date with the Muse, LLC, which helps storytellers to publish traditionally at the highest level possible.
A Teacher of the Year nominee for her use of neuroscience principles, she applies these same principles to her work with writers to create confidence, ...
5 Insider Secrets to Show-Stopping Novel Beginnings
Join Us on Zoom September 19th to Learn Annalisa's Parent's Insider Tips to Get Readers Hooked on your Novel
You know you’ve got a great story idea, but how do you make it so great that it rises from slush pile to publication?
Author and Writing Coach Annalisa Parent has helped hundreds of writers to improve their craft and to become published authors. She knows the inside tricks to get ...
Interview with our Race as Context Panelists
We're so excited to wrap up our 2020-2021 speaker series with a unique conversation between Alex Sato, Gabriel Campbell, Jhon Valdes Klinger, and Kim Shuck, moderated by member Ellen McBarnette. This diverse and talented group of writers and poets will share their perspectives on race as context, and inspire discussion and exploration for others. We sent them some questions and their answers were so fantastic we really would rather bind them up and publish them as a book. Below are just a few of the highlights.
Learn WordPress: a Workshop with Karma Bennett
At last month's meeting we gave you tips on improving your website, now we'll teach the skills to do it, in a hands-on workshop on WordPress. The workshop will be held over Zoom, so you can beautify your website from the comfort of your own computer.
What Is WordPress?
What is WordPress?
WordPress is a way for you to run a website without having to know a single line of code. Just ...
April 18th Join Emily Cotler on Author Websites that Really Work
Your website is the only place online where YOU control the narrative. It’s the definitive word on your career, and this month’s speaker will help you make it the best it can be. Emily Cotler, founder and creative director of Waxcreative Designs, which boasts over 100 acclaimed author websites, shares best practices of a high-end author website service that can help any author. Emily will ...
How to Submit Your Poetry—a Workshop with Keith Mark Gaboury
On April 25th, poet Keith Mark Gaboury will lead us in a workshop that will focus on the step-by-step process of how a poet can submit their poetry to a wide range of literary journals along with presses that accept chapbooks and full-length manuscripts. You'll gain access to a Google Doc with links to online databases of literary journals, presses and websites that feature active submission ...
Grantwriting for Writers
More and More Funders Are Giving Support to Individuals
Experienced Grant Strategist Denise Pate Shares Insider Tips on Winning Funding
March 21st at 1 p.m.
Historically-most grant support was given to nonprofit organizations. Denise Pate manages the Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, one of the few places where INDIVIDUALS can find support for their work. She is part of the growing ...
Q&A with Speculative Fiction Writer Thaddeus Howze
Thaddeus Howze is an award-winning writer, editor, podcaster and activist. His speculative fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. He's author of Hayward's Reach and Broken Glass. He is also the creator of a series of articles called Writing Craft: Mastering the Urge to Write.
Thaddeus is a writer and editor for two magazine...
An Interview with Poet Paul Corman-Roberts, Poet and Founder of Beast Crawl
Get to Know the Featured Member who is Leading our Cracking Open the Poetic Voice Workshop
We're excited to introduce January's featured member, and the leader of our next workshop, Paul Corman-Roberts. His second full-length collection Bone Moon Palace will be released by Nomadic Press Winter 2021, as well as the chapbook 19th Street Station from Fashion For Collapse Publications. Previous ...
Deep Revision with Laurel Yourke
Join is January 17th when author and award-winning writing professor Dr. Laurel Yourke will show us her deep revision techniques.
“'Vision' is the heart of revision—it’s not just polishing or substituting one word for another.," Yourke says. "Instead, look at revision as viewing at your own words in a completely new way: re-envisioning them." Yourke will organize her keynote around ...