Free Lecture: Practical Ways to Combat “Publishing Block”
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October 18, 2023
September 20, 2023
Free Lecture: Sentiment & Sentimentality — The Art and Craft of Writing Powerful Emotions (With Ellen Bass)
Visit Ellen’s Website Ellen mentioned quite a few authors, books, and quotes during the lecture here are some of them. The Situation and The Story by Vivian Gornick Dog Years by Mark Doty Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns The Art of Fiction by John Gardner “A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to…
August 13, 2023
Free Lecture: How to End a Poem with Resonance with Kimiko Hahn
Visit Kimiko’s Website This lecture was loosely based on an essay originally published in the American Poetry Review. You can get a copy here.
August 10, 2023
Free Lecture: How to Hook Readers and Publishers With Your Opening Pages
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July 24, 2023
Free Lecture: How to Write a Dynamic Act One for Your Novel
Presented by Ley Taylor Johnson Visit Ley’s Website Download the Slides Download Ley’s Book
June 16, 2023
Free Lecture: Reflections on Voice and Responsibility in Poetry with Kwame Dawes
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June 14, 2023
Lecture: Not a Poem, Not an Essay, but a Secret Third Thing ‒ Introduction to the Zuihitsu
Presented by Eugenia Leigh Buy Eugenia’s Book View the Slides Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two poetry collections. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic, The Nation, Guernica, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Poetry Northwest. Her latest book, Bianca, was released this March. You can order…
Lecture: Writing to Save the World with Danté Stewart
Presented by Danté Stewart Buy the Book Danté Stewart is a speaker and a writer whose work in the areas of race, religion, and politics has been featured on CNN and in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Comment, and elsewhere. He received the Georgia Author of the Year Award…
January 23, 2023
Lecture: The Art of Poetic Efficiency with Michael Kleber-Diggs
Presented by Michael Kleber-Diggs Buy Michael’s Book: Worldly Things 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. The New York Times wrote: “The full-throated poems in this debut collection see the world whole, allowing daily intimacies against a backdrop of…