Varieties of Publishing: An Overview of Opportunities - IN-PERSON CLASS

1800 Rossville Avenue,Chattanooga TN 37408

07 January, 2023

Description

We will cover literary journals, commercial magazines, column and opinion writing, blogging, and travel writing. I'll talk about submission protocols for each, do's and don'ts of submitting and talking to editors, how to write a cover letter, handling rejection, and the very real value of persistence. Included in the course cost is the offer to edit/discuss one COVER LETTER or PITCH for each student, to be redeemed within a month of taking the course. Please note: Masks are optional. About the instructor: Dana Shavin's essays and articles have appeared in Garden and Gun, Oxford American, The Sun, Fourth Genre, Appalachian Review, Psychology Today, Parade, Bark, The Writer, PBS's Next Avenue, AARP's The Ethel, and numerous other commercial and literary magazines (full publishing history at Danashavin.com). She is an award-winning humor columnist and travel writer for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the author of a memoir, The Body Tourist (Little Feather Books, 2014), and of Finding the World: Thoughts on Life, Love, Home and Dogs, a collection of her most popular columns spanning twenty years. Her essays have been nominated for inclusion in Best American Essays and for a Pushcart. She has conducted workshops at the Meacham Writers Workshop, Keystone College in PA, and at Chattanooga State, and has been a guest speaker at fundraisers, book clubs, colleges, and at alternative worship centers. She was a therapist for many years, and is a Certified Professional Life Coach. For details about our refund and class cancellation policies, visit our FAQs: www.thechattery.org/faqs .