Fall events
Plus Zoom link for our Writing Group meetup today
Happy Monday, friends. As promised, a list of fall events is below for you. I’m so excited about these! I’ll be tying some of the craft writing I do here to the seminars listed below, and working to send more prompts to paid subscribers.
I’m also working to bring some more informal salons with authors and thinkers to our entire paid subscriber community. Stay tuned for dates on these.
At the bottom of this email, you’ll also find a link to our Writing Group fall planning session, which is today at 1pm PT/4pm ET. Details about our Writing Group below.
But first, the seminars:
Sept 30th 12pm-2pm PT I’m offering a craft seminar on the writing process, register here. Recording will be sent to all registered participants if you can’t attend live.
October 28th 12pm-12pm PT I’ll give a craft seminar on showing & telling, registration link coming soon.
December 2nd 12pm-2pm PT I’ll give a craft seminar on revision, registration link coming soon.
A discount code for these seminars will be sent to all paid subscribers, so upgrade now if you’d like to receive it.
One of my fall classes at Stanford on memoir and memory is also open to the public, and this semester will feature a visit from Melissa Febos! It’s full, but you can join the wait list here.
Fall Writing Group events:
Don’t forget that the Writing Group is separate from a regular paid subscription— be sure you select the subscription you want when you upgrade. If you’re already an annual paid subscriber, you’ll pay less and extend your subscription for a year. Just be sure to select the founding tier subscription when you upgrade.
TODAY September 9th 1pm-2pm PT Writing Group will meet live to talk about our plans for fall, how to plan while accomodating the mess of the creative process, and exchange resources/ ask questions
*Zoom information under the paywall of this post
Fall virtual retreat! Save the date! Week of November 18th. More details closer to the date.
End of fall check-in. This is when we will celebrate everything we did and did not do this fall, and look ahead. We’ll do this mid-December, more details to come.
We may do a few live check-ins in between now and December, depending on interest.
I’ll also hold a live office hours thread or two.
In addition to the events above, a Writing Group subscription also includes:
Weekly chats with other writers (“gentle accountability” as one subscriber called it), and the option to start new chat threads to connect further, such as ask about MFA programs and alternatives, places to submit, or search for people to exchange drafts with
Access to direct messaging with me on Substack
Discounts on writing classes
Two virtual residencies per year, one in the spring and one in the fall—these include co-writing sessions on Zoom, creative prompts, office hours and community threads
Our group is composed of writers in all genres at all stages—we have memoirists, essayists, fiction writers, and poets, writers just starting out and those who are more established
Here’s the Zoom information for our fall planning session today: