Free Lectures from Award Winning Authors & Publishing Professionals

Elevate Your Writing and Publishing Career with In-Depth Lessons from Award Winning and Bestselling Authors

Our lecture series includes talks from bestselling novelists, poets, and industry professionals, covering a wide range of topics that will help you improve your writing skills and take your career to the next level.

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Free Talk: Writing the Essential Scenes of Act II

Download the Slides Ley Taylor Johnson is a writing consultant, author, and regular contributor to Authors Publish Magazine. Ley is also a member of the Northwest Editors Guild and the Editorial Freelancers Association. For those interested in working with Lee, I encourage you to visit their website.

Free Talk: The Art of Historical Fiction – How to Write Fact into Fiction

Watch a free talk and Q&A session with author, poet, and editor Wendy Chen.

Free Talk: Manuscript Publishing for Novelists

Emily Harstone is the author of The 2024 Guide to Manuscript Publishers, The Authors Publish Guide to Manuscript Submission, and a founding editor for Authors Publish Magazine. Download the Slides.

Free Talk: An Introduction to Publishing Your Writing in Literary Journals

You can download the slides here, and take a look at the sample submission tracker here. Shannan Mann is the Founding Editor of ONLY POEMS. She has been awarded or placed for the Palette Love and Eros Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, and Auburn Witness Poetry Prize among others. Her poems appear in Poetry Daily, EPOCH,…

Free Talk: How to Write Romance Novels Readers Love

Join New York Times Bestselling author Emily Colin for a one hour talk and Q&A session.

Free Talk: The Art & Craft of Sound in Creative Writing with Michael Kleber-Diggs

Join award winning author Michael Kleber-Diggs for a one hour talk and Q&A.

Free Talk: The Fourteen Choices of a Poem (With Darren C. Demaree)

Explore how and when to use the parts of poetry to maintain a generative writing practice.

The Art of Memoir: How Exploring Your Theme Can Make the Writing Process Easier

Learn how understanding and exploring your memoir's theme can make it easier to write your story, while also making it easier to connect with readers and meet the needs of publishers.