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A great book needs a great pitch. This hands-on workshop demystifies querying agents and publishers, helping writers transform their ideas into compelling log lines, elevator pitches, and query letters. Through examples and exercises, participants will sharpen their book’s position, identify effective comp titles, consider platform, and leave with practical tools for getting noticed.
Translation asks writers to cross more than linguistic borders—it requires carrying history, trauma, cultural memory, voice, and emotional complexity into another language. Through novel excerpts, discussion, and reverse-translation exercises, this workshop explores strategies for honoring rhythm, style, and character while navigating the challenges of translating historical fiction and deeply emotional texts.
What happens when writers are expected to tell only the stories others associate with their identities? This two-session, multi-genre workshop challenges stereotypes facing veterans, military family members, and immigrants. Through discussion, contemporary readings, and generative writing, participants will push beyond literary pigeonholes and create work that embraces complexity, contradiction, and untold possibilities.
Why do some moments fly by while others seem to last forever? This generative workshop explores how writers can manipulate time—compressing, expanding, and slowing moments—to make stories more visceral. Through close reading and writing exercises, participants will also discover how zooming in on seemingly small details can reveal larger meanings in fiction and nonfiction.
