Get Published Now: A Boot Camp for Publishing Your Short Work

With Marcelle Soviero, MFA

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

You’ve worked hard to develop your craft.  You know your essays, short stories or poems are good, and you get great feedback from readers.  Isn’t it time you had your work published? Are you ready to begin building your portfolio of publishing credits?

In this workshop you will learn how to:

-Research small and large markets for individual works
-Define markets for your genre
-Evaluate dozens of publishing outlets including magazines, literary journals and anthologies
-Locate the correct contact person at target publications
-Find out about writing contests by genre
-Build a submission tracker / submission binder
-Craft a simple cover letter
-Define the best membership sites for writers
-Evaluate top networking sites for building publishing connections

Participants will receive a handout of resources, including websites and other tools to enable you to take those next steps. 

INSTRUCTOR BIO

Marcelle has an MFA in English/Poetry from New York University and a BA in Creative Studies from Hofstra University. She has published hundreds of poems, profiles, and nonfiction articles in literary journals, magazines, newspapers and newsletters, including her essay Electronically Yours published in the New York Times.   She is the author of The Body That Wants, an award winning poetry chapbook, and An Irridescent Life: Essays on Motherhood and Stepmotherhood.  She has lectured at The New School, New York University, and in libraries, bookstores and schools.

LIMITED ENROLLMENT

WHERE
Westport Writers' Workshop, 3 Sylvan Road South, Westport, CT 06880
TIME
9 a.m. to noon, Saturday Nov. 23
DATE
Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013
PRICE: 95

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