May 4, 2025
Download the Slides (PDF) Nev March is the award winning author of historical mysteries. Her debut novel, Murder in Old Bombay won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America’s Award for Best First Crime Fiction. If you enjoy mystery novels, the book is well worth the read. Buy a copy here. Nev’s latest book, The…
March 26, 2025
Download the Slides (PDF) Emily Colin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author whose books blend romance and the supernatural. Her debut novel, The Memory Thief, was a Target Emerging Authors Pick, and her young adult dystopian romantasy series, The Seven Sins, won the Gold Moonbeam, Silver IPPY, and North Carolina Indie…
March 19, 2025
Download the Slides Want to work with John? Join the waiting list, so you can get the first chance to enroll in Plot Your Novel — Plot Your Scenes with John Claude Bemis. John usually hosts this course one to two times a year. The course is four weeks, and includes weekly feedback on your…
March 14, 2025
Download the Slides Alexandra Leggat is an author, freelance editor, journalist, writing coach, and teaches creative writing for the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Creative Writing program. Her books include a collection of poetry and three short story collections and a novel. One of her books of short stories entitled Animal was…
February 21, 2025
Download the Slides. Order Dennis’s Book on Publishing Here Dennis James Sweeney is the author of How to Submit: Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses. His first book, In the Antarctic Circle, won the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize and was a Debut Poetry Book of 2021 in Poets & Writers….
January 3, 2025
Download the Slides (PDF) Erin Swann is a writing teacher and author. She’s been published in a wide variety of magazines, including Flash Fiction Online, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, and Factor Four Magazine. Erin has also been a finalist for the Page Turner Awards, and a six time honorable mention winner for the Writers of the…
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 2025 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
Presented by Emily Colin Download the Slides Want to Work with Emily Colin? Join the waiting list for Emily’s course on Writing Romance & Women’s Fiction. The course includes four weeks of in-depth lessons, weekly feedback on your writing, and much more. The tuition is $600. Space is limited. The best way to guarantee a…
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). …