A 8-Week Business of Writing Workshop
Wednesdays, April 8 - June 3*, 6-8 PM
In this workshop, author Nick Fuller Googins will share one of the greatest tips he received in his writing career: instead of spending hundreds of hours querying literary agents, what if you got them to come to you?
The workshop will be both informative and generative, ultimately centering around strategic submissions to literary magazines, in order to draw the attention of literary agents and editors. We will examine the rich ecosystems of literary magazines, we will discuss how to turn longer works into excerpts for submission, and we will practice writing solid cover letters to accompanying submissions. Nick will share from his time as a reader for a prestigious literary magazine, and what he learned to help get through the “slush pile” and onto an editor’s desk.
The workshop will also focus on participants’ writing. We will closely read a number of stories and excerpts from a variety of literary magazines, to see what works best. We will then read each other’s submissions, in a traditional workshop model, focusing on a few participants per week, providing feedback and constructive criticism. Lastly, each participant will make an individualized submission plan, and end the course by preparing a batch of 5-10 submissions.
This course is applicable to all genres, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
*No class on April 22.
$275 Members/$475 Nonmembers
Nick Fuller Googins is the author of the novel, The Great Transition. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Men’s Health, The Sun, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine, and works as an elementary school teacher. He is a proud member of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, as well as the National Education Association, the largest labor union in the country.
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