Essays on the Writing Life: How to Write, Publish, and Get Noticed
ABOUT THE EVENT ✏︎
No matter your genre(s), as writers we can all write about writing—the craft, the process, the life.
This may sound kind of meta (and it is), but writing about writing presents a great publishing opportunity. Andrea is an Editor at Brevity Blog, which publishes as essay on writing every weekday. She’ll take you through the steps of how to write this type of essay and get published using the Blog as an example and share other outlets to target too.
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Andrea A. Firth is an Editor at Brevity Blog and cofounder of Diablo Writers’ Workshop. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Saint Mary’s College of California. Her writing focus is personal essay, and she was finalist for The Missouri Review's 2021 Perkoff Prize in creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Allium, Please See Me, Motherwell, The Coachella Review among others. She has also worked as journalist and has published hundreds of articles in news outlets and magazines. Learn more about her and read her recent work here.