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03/24: Writing for Publication
Instructor: Holly Day
Date: Monday, March 24
Date: Monday, March 24
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: Nonmember: $75; Writer/Reader Members & IPC Members: $48; Senior, Teacher, Student, Military/Veteran, Librarian: $42 Anybody can write, but it takes a special type of determination to see your work through to print. In this workshop, we’ll discuss proper manuscript formatting for poetry, fiction, creative fiction, and journalism, and go on to discuss market lists, deciphering writer’s guidelines, dealing with rejection and rejoicing in seeing your work in print. We’ll also talk about basic marketing techniques, including how to find places to review your books, how to set up interviews for yourself, and how to set up book signings
Cost: Nonmember: $75; Writer/Reader Members & IPC Members: $48; Senior, Teacher, Student, Military/Veteran, Librarian: $42 Anybody can write, but it takes a special type of determination to see your work through to print. In this workshop, we’ll discuss proper manuscript formatting for poetry, fiction, creative fiction, and journalism, and go on to discuss market lists, deciphering writer’s guidelines, dealing with rejection and rejoicing in seeing your work in print. We’ll also talk about basic marketing techniques, including how to find places to review your books, how to set up interviews for yourself, and how to set up book signings
About the instructor:
Holly Day has worked as a freelance writer for over 30 years, with over 7,000 published articles, poems, and short stories and 40 books and chapbooks, including the nonfiction books, Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, Walking Twin Cities, Stillwater, Minnesota: A Brief History, Nordeast Minneapolis: A History, Tattoo FAQ, and History Lover’s Guide to Minneapolis; and the poetry books, A Book of Beasts (Weasel Press), The Tooth is the Largest Organ in the Human Body (Anaphora Press), Bound in Ice (Shanti Arts Publishing), and Cross-Referencing a Book of Summer (Silver Bow Publishing). Her writing has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, a 49th Parallel Prize, an Isaac Asimov Award, several dozen Pushcart awards, and a Rhysling Award, and she has received two Midwest Writer’s Grants, a Plainsongs Award, the Sam Ragan Prize for Poetry, and the Dwarf Star Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
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