Collaborative Masterclasses
Want to stretch your creativity and experiment with some new classes? Nadine is teaming up with renowned female authors to help you up-level your writing.
Publishing Our Stories: Pitching, Querying, and More w/ Melanie Brooks
The publishing landscape can feel intimidating for many writers and questions abound on how to bring a book project into the world. Among them are: Do I need a literary agent? If so, how do I get one? Agent representation can offer writers an ally in the tricky process of navigating the publishing landscape and can assist in landing lucrative book deals with larger publishing houses. However, many writers have also found success pitching on their own to small presses and independent publishers or self-publishing either alone or with hybrid presses. Participants will dig into the following questions: What is a literary agent and what do agents do? What are some strategies for researching agents? How does one query an agent? What types of projects are best suited to agent representation? What are alternative approaches to publishing that don't involve literary agents? As a writer who has sold one book with the help of a literary agent and one without, Melanie can offer perspectives from both sides of the conversation. Nadine secured an agent for her memoir and also has experience with academic presses + hybrid presses. As a writing coach, Nadine has helped countless female authors get their books published using all approaches--agent, indie, hybrid, and self publishing.
Writing w/ The Wise Woman Within -Sara Avant Stover
This masterclass empowers women writers to break free from inner blocks, self-doubt, and perfectionism by accessing their deeper, wiser creative voice. Through the psychotherapeutic model of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and heart-centered practices, you’ll cultivate a writing practice that flows with more ease, confidence, and authenticity.
✅ Understand why fear and self-doubt arise in writing—and how to work with them, not against them.
✅ Experience a powerful guided journey to connect with your inner Wise Woman.
✅ Discover practical, Self-led writing rituals to make creativity sustainable.
✅ Leave with renewed confidence and inspiration to write from a place of greater truth and ease.
Your words matter. By embracing your Wise Woman within, you’ll cultivate a writing practice that feels freeing, fulfilling, and uniquely yours.
Applying to Residencies & Fellowships with Faith Adiele
Ever dreamed of writing your book on a beach in Brazil? In a castle in Italy? On a boat-turned-writing-studio in the Canadian Rockies? In a restored Moroccan riad? With friends in a cottage in a California vineyard? Drawing on her experience attending 30 artists’ residencies around the globe and judging applications for half a dozen, Faith Adiele will take you through the basics of applying for that iconic room of one's own.
You’ll come away from this session knowing:
When and why to apply for a residency
The different types of residencies and where to find the best one for you
What makes an effective application
How to get the most out of a residency once you’ve been accepted.
Integrating Research Into Writing with Emily Edlynn
How do you integrate science and research into content that is understandable, relatable, and engaging? Learn how to write about science, studies, and academic topics with ethics and integrity while also keeping your readers’ attention. Emily will share tips and strategies from her years writing about the science of parenting and child development for multiple major media outlets and her first book, Autonomy-Supportive Parenting. Participants will have an opportunity to practice these strategies during short, experiential exercises.
Writing for Major Magazines w/ Tamara Belinfanti
Learn how to write an engaging personal essay that magazine editors can't resist. Tamara will walk participants through her Vogue essay, sharing all of her steps from idea to draft to pitch. Come away with our top tips on how to customize an essay for specific publications.
Knowing Your "Why": Set Up Your Substack to Grow with Sarah Fay
Nearly everyone is on Substack for three reasons:
Bring their work to the world
Earn an income
Build a loyal, engaged readership
Your “why” includes your purpose on Substack and why people will subscribe to you.
You’ll come away from this session with
a strong understanding of what type of Substack you intend to have (or have) and
how to express it in a way that draws subscribers and paying subscribers
Knowing your “why” is the way to strategize for growth.
(Extra)ordinary Content with Patty McNair
Drawing from memory, imagination, and observation, writers will discover their own extraordinary content. Writing activities will combine each writer's unique material with ways of telling, structure, and form, in order to make work that resonates. Whether a writer is creating imagined new worlds or writing autobiographical pieces, these explorations will feed the muse.