December 13, 2024
Download the Slides (PDF) Karan Kapoor is the Editor-in-Chief of ONLY POEMS. A finalist for the Diode, Tusculum Review and Iron Horse Literary Review chapbook prizes, their poems appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, AGNI, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, and elsewhere, fiction in JOYLAND and the other side of…
November 15, 2024
Download the Slides. Caro Perny is a lifelong booklover, born and raised in New York City. She is currently Associate Director of Publicity at Tor Books. Over the course of her career, she’s worked with an amazing variety of bestselling, award-winning, and critically acclaimed authors such as Carissa Broadbent, Tochi Onyebuchi, James Rollins, Alyssa Cole,…
September 20, 2024
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.
September 6, 2024
Download the Slides Wendy Chen is the author of Their Divine Fires, published by Hachette. Mary Karr called the book “a peerless first novel.” Wendy is also the author of the award-winning poetry collection Unearthings. Her short stories, creative nonfiction, translations, and reviews have appeared widely including Freeman’s, A Public Space, North American Review, and…
August 9, 2024
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.
June 11, 2024
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,…
June 4, 2024
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May 17, 2024
Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. His debut poetry collection, Worldly Things (Milkweed Editions, 2021), won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Hiswriting has appeared or is forthcoming in Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Potomac Review, Hunger Mountain, Memorious, and various anthologies. Since 2016, Michael has been an instructor with the Minnesota Prison Writing…
April 24, 2024
Please note, the audio is out of sync for the first minute, but should be fine after that point. View the Slides Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-one poetry collections, most recently “in defense of the goat as it continues to wander towards the certain doom of the cliff”, (April Gloaming, February 2024). …
March 15, 2024
Download the Slides Prince Shakur is the author of the memoir When They Tell You to Be Good published by Tin House Books. Booklist called the memoir: “Clear-eyed and unsentimental, an insightful, beautifully written memoir of family and identity.” Prince is also a professor and a writing instructor for Authors Publish, where he teaches memoir…
March 1, 2024
Nev March is the award winning author of 3 books published by Macmillan. Her first book, Murder in Old Bombay, won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel. You can buy a copy here. You can pre-order her latest book, The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret here. You can sign up for Nev’s newsletter here….
February 3, 2024
View the Exercises from the Talk Cat Rambo is a Nebula award winning author of science fiction and fantasy. Their sci-fi series You Sexy Thing was published by Tor Macmillan. Cat has been widely published in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and Tor.com, among many other places. Cat was also a two term president of the SFWA. You…
January 22, 2024
Want to work with John Claude Bemis? John’s course, Plot Your Novel – Plot Your Scenes is now open for enrollment. Get in-depth feedback on your novel directly from John Claude Bemis. Learn more and enroll here.
November 29, 2023
Eric Smith is a Young Adult author and literary agent with P.S. Literary living in Philadelphia. He’s worked with New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors across genres and categories. You can check out some of the books he’s worked on here! In his author life, his latest book, With or Without You, published with…
November 4, 2023
Announcing Short Fiction Intensive with Daisuke Shen. The workshop includes in-depth personal feedback on two drafts of a story, as well as personal recommendations for literary journals that may be interested in your work. It’s from December 18th to 22nd. Space is strictly limited to just 10 participants. If you’re interested, you can learn more…