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FREE TELECLASSES
Linda Formichelli, author of The Renegade Writer, is offering free teleclasses on topics ranging from how to write a killer query to how to organize your assignment workflow, all based on her 12 years as a successful freelancer. For more information, visit http://therenegadewriter.com/linda-formichellis-free-teleclasses/
ALISA VALDES-RODRIGUEZ WORKSHOPS
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, bestselling author of six novels, including "The Dirty Girls Social Club," is offering writing workshops on a variety of topics including: Novel Foundations, The Music-Word Connection, Chica Lit 101, and Writing as Business. For more information, visit http://alisaworkshops.blogspot.com/.”
FREDERICK DOUGLASS CREATIVE ARTS CENTER WRITING CLASSES
With over a dozen Writing Workshops for beginning, intermediate and advanced students, FDCAC enrolls hundreds of adult students a year. Poetry, short story, novel, screen writing and freelance writing (for magazines and newspapers) are just some of the workshops offered. For more than a quarter of a century, the Center has launched the careers of many writers whose work have been published by Doubleday, Random House, Harper & Row, E. P. Dutton, Pantheon, Dial, and Harlem River Press, and started a number of young writers for stage, screen and television on their way. For more information, visit http://www.fdcac.org/.
PUBLISHING AND SELF-PUBLISHING SEMINARS
Nationally best selling author Karen E. Quinones Miller went from a struggling self-published author to a successful novelist with a six figure contract with Simon & Schuster in a matter of just six months. Topics covered will include: how to prepare your manuscript to send to publishers; how to write a query letter, synopsis, and book proposal; how to find a literary agent; determining if you have what it takes to self-publish, and how to go about publishing your own book, from obtaining an ISBN to getting your book into stores; and how to promote your book. For seminar dates and locations visit http://www.karenequinonesmiller.com/.
TRAVELING & TRAVEL WRITING WORKSHOPS
Got wanderlust? Learn the secrets of independent travel and travel writing from Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of the award-winning memoir Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana and the guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go. She'll be holding free workshops around the country throughout the year. Check out her Web site for details: http://www.aroundthebloc.com/bloc_party.htm.
GOUCHER COLLEGE MFA IN CREATIVE NONFICTION
Study the personal essay, memoir, literary journalism, and narrative in Goucher’s limited-residency MFA in Creative Nonfiction. The program allows students to complete most of the requirements off campus while developing their skills as nonfiction writers under the close supervision of well-known writers and teachers. For more information, visit: http://www.goucher.edu/mfa.
