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.
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.
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.
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.
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.