Share it: Publish Essays from Your Memoir (August 8 and August 22, 11am - 2:30pm ET)
Looking to get your name out there and build platform for your memoir? Interested in turning chapters and scenes into standalone pieces, but don’t know where to start? Need guidance on how to revise and submit essays adapted from your memoir? This class is for you!
In this 2-part intensive, you'll learn how to adapt chapters, scenes, and topics from your memoir into powerful, standalone essays ready for publication. Through a mix of craft & publishing lessons, in-class prompts, and guided revision exercises, you’ll leave with a clear roadmap for writing and submitting essays from your memoir.
Goals:
Learn how to build platform for your memoir by publishing personal essays.
Generate fresh essay ideas and start new drafts based on your memoir material.
Explore strategies for shaping standalone pieces from longer works — and overcome common challenges.
Build a community of fellow writers to help support and hold you accountable.
Create a personalized submission plan to move your essays from draft to published.
Feedback:
There will be ~20 minutes of optional sharing (with on-the-spot feedback from Katie)
Optional, add-on one-on-one coaching session (to discuss writing goals, do live-editing of pages, etc.)
Click “Add to cart” to sign up for the intensive. Then, scroll down to add on an optional 1-hour Zoom coaching call. Finally, scroll up and click the cart in the top right to check out.
Looking to get your name out there and build platform for your memoir? Interested in turning chapters and scenes into standalone pieces, but don’t know where to start? Need guidance on how to revise and submit essays adapted from your memoir? This class is for you!
In this 2-part intensive, you'll learn how to adapt chapters, scenes, and topics from your memoir into powerful, standalone essays ready for publication. Through a mix of craft & publishing lessons, in-class prompts, and guided revision exercises, you’ll leave with a clear roadmap for writing and submitting essays from your memoir.
Goals:
Learn how to build platform for your memoir by publishing personal essays.
Generate fresh essay ideas and start new drafts based on your memoir material.
Explore strategies for shaping standalone pieces from longer works — and overcome common challenges.
Build a community of fellow writers to help support and hold you accountable.
Create a personalized submission plan to move your essays from draft to published.
Feedback:
There will be ~20 minutes of optional sharing (with on-the-spot feedback from Katie)
Optional, add-on one-on-one coaching session (to discuss writing goals, do live-editing of pages, etc.)
Click “Add to cart” to sign up for the intensive. Then, scroll down to add on an optional 1-hour Zoom coaching call. Finally, scroll up and click the cart in the top right to check out.
Looking to get your name out there and build platform for your memoir? Interested in turning chapters and scenes into standalone pieces, but don’t know where to start? Need guidance on how to revise and submit essays adapted from your memoir? This class is for you!
In this 2-part intensive, you'll learn how to adapt chapters, scenes, and topics from your memoir into powerful, standalone essays ready for publication. Through a mix of craft & publishing lessons, in-class prompts, and guided revision exercises, you’ll leave with a clear roadmap for writing and submitting essays from your memoir.
Goals:
Learn how to build platform for your memoir by publishing personal essays.
Generate fresh essay ideas and start new drafts based on your memoir material.
Explore strategies for shaping standalone pieces from longer works — and overcome common challenges.
Build a community of fellow writers to help support and hold you accountable.
Create a personalized submission plan to move your essays from draft to published.
Feedback:
There will be ~20 minutes of optional sharing (with on-the-spot feedback from Katie)
Optional, add-on one-on-one coaching session (to discuss writing goals, do live-editing of pages, etc.)
Click “Add to cart” to sign up for the intensive. Then, scroll down to add on an optional 1-hour Zoom coaching call. Finally, scroll up and click the cart in the top right to check out.
Scheduled in hour-long slots, these Zoom sessions are designed to discuss whatever needs or questions you have in your writing life. Maybe you’re encountering a challenge related to an essay and want to discuss ways to address it. Perhaps you need help brainstorming what lit mags to submit your piece to. Whatever your writing life needs may be, I’m here to help!