Not much on the news board this week:
Karina is developing an online portal for our submitters club
Marcin is implementing some super cool, super secret new design updates
Kailey and her team are now taking submissions through submittable (traitors!)
Shelby has been prepping to launch our next WoD101 course with Jo Gatford
Nikita is putting the finishing touches on our Sub Club revamp
and my legs hurt.
Latest content goodies:
Sub Club Lists:
Latest from Finding Your Essay's Heartbeat with Andrea Firth:
Tapping Memory and Generating Ideas for Personal Essays (Free)
How to Build Scenes and Create Structure in Personal Essay (Free)
Who’s Talking: Dialogue and Point of View in Personal Essay (Free)
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Essay we published this week
After I Am Raped, I Write a Book and Do Not Use the Word Rape
By Kirsten Reneau
Editors Note: There's a tendency to avoid naming things for what they are out of politeness. Rape is a word often turned into a euphamism. In Kirsten's essay she writes about what it means to call a thing what it is.
Raped characters don’t live long. They are usually plot devices for a main character who hasn’t been sullied in such a way. Or sometimes they do survive, and it gets to be background fodder for why they’re so crazy. For a while I thought that was what happened to me—that being raped made me go crazy.
Interview of the week
Alex Alberto
On Self-Portrait as a Portal to Exploring Polyamory and Unconventional Love Stories
by Brittany Ackerman
None of us really grew up with scripts for polyamory, and integrating these parts of ourselves does feel foreign at times. Polyamory has definitely made me feel more capable of love.
Workshops Happening this Weekend!
Saturday, April 13 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST)
Small Press Publishing with a Debut Seminar with Emily Jon Tobias
Looking for a publisher to call home for your manuscript? Emily Jon Tobias will share her successes and failures along the journey to find a home for her debut story collection, MONARCH. You will learn about writing query letters (agents vs. presses), tracking submissions, the research process, fees, red flags, green flags, how to best navigate technology with productive, simple tools, and, perhaps most importantly, how to handle the emotional pressure of rejection after rejection.
*This workshop will be recorded if you can’t attend live!
Sunday, April 14 from 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM (EST)
Land Big Bylines by Writing for Columns with
In this workshop, Courtney will explain the crux of popular columns for top publications. You'll do a brainstorming exercise for each, and there will be an opportunity to workshop your ideas and ask questions. You'll receive a list of potential columns and editor contact information for each. By the end, you'll have a game plan for landing your best bylines yet!
*This workshop will be recorded if you can’t attend live!
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