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Fearless Writing
This session of the Write Anyway Summit, Anne Hawley interviews William Kenower about the central theme of his work: fearless writing.
Bill is the author of Everyone Has What it Takes: a Writer's Guide to the End of Self-Doubt; Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence; and Write Within Yourself: An Author's Companion. He is also the editor in chief of Author Magazine. In addition to his books, he's been published in the New York Times, Writers' Digest; Edible Seattle, Parent Map; and he has been a featured blogger for the Huffington Post. He also hosts the popular podcasts Author2Author and Fearless Writing With Bill Kenower. You can find him at williamkenower.com.
The Creative Dichotomy:Balancing Your Inner Muse and Scribe
Anne Janzer is a nonfiction book coach and the author of multiple award winning books on writing, including The Writer's Process, Writing to be Understood, and her newest, Writer's Voice.
She is fascinated by the science and mystery of writing and is always searching for clues to better communication. You can find her books and blog posts at annejanzer.com.
Unleash Your Writing: Using Tarot to Deepen the Creative Process
Writing coach Meg Hayertz is in conversation with Anne Hawley exploring how Tarot can help you spur your creativity.
Meg Hayertz (she/her, they/them), author of Tarot for Beginners (Althea Press), believes creating is an act of listening. As the founder of Creative Momentum, she helps writers, artists, performers and academics unlock creative blocks, deepen their inspiration and finish their project. She holds an MFA in Writing and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies. Her fiction has appeared in The Louisville Review and VoiceCatcher, among others, she is an alum of Lit Camp, and she has been interviewed in LitHub. Also, she believes in you.
When Editing is Your Challenge
Developmental editor Anne Hawley offers you some tips for editing your own manuscript. Many writers get stuck at this stage.
Over the past seven years, Anne has worked with hundreds of fiction authors on a wide range of story types and genres, and many of them have been confused and desperate, knowing something isn't quite working in their story, but flummoxed by conflicting expert advice. Anne shares that the majority of manuscript problems fall into a few clear categories.
Writing with Dyslexia: Surviving the “Superpower”
Whether or not you're dyslexic (or neurodivergent), we could all do with more strategies for reading, writing and being more productive! Published author, game writer and CEO/Founder of World Anvil (the worldbuilding & novel writing platform with 2.5 MILLION users), Janet Forbes, shares her favorite tools, method & strategies for writing more, reading more, and generally getting more stuff done!
Why not create a free World Anvil account, to see how it might help you? It was created for all authors, but especially dyslexic and neurodivergent ones! :)
Untangling Workshop: Get Unstuck With Your Writing w/ London Writers' Salon
Feeling stuck on a particular plot point, story arc, or character? Or getting tangled up on your creative project? Use this interactive “Untangling Session” to help you get unstuck and find forward movement.
Lindsey Trout Hughes is a writer and theater maker. Her essays have appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Rumpus, and Catapult, where she writes Ghost Light, a quarterly column about theater, intimacy, and longing. Her craft essay for Catapult about bringing acting techniques to exploratory writing is being taught at DePaul University. She is at work on her first book, a memoir. She is also a ghostwriter, copywriter, and developmental editor. She is an Assistant Books Editor at Barrelhouse and part of the team at the London Writers' Salon.
Giving Yourself Permission
Join Sue Campbell in conversation with bestselling author KJ dell'Antonia talking about the common obstacles writers face and giving yourself permission to make time for your writing.
KJ is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels The Chicken Sisters and In Her Boots explore the same themes she once explored as a journalist. She's also the former editor of the New York Times Motherlode blog and the co-host of the #AmWriting podcast and a passionate bookstagrammer @KJDA.
Her newest book is Playing the Witch Card, available now.
Your Author Mission
In this session, Megan Haskell and Greta Boris of The Author Wheel will help you find clarity, focus, and purpose in your writing by creating an Author Mission Statement and Tagline.
Together, Megan Haskell and Greta Boris are the Author Wheel, publishers of books, courses, and a podcast designed to help writers find strategies to keep their stories rolling. They believe there is no single correct way to produce, publish, or promote your books, only what works for you. Their three-step process— clarify, simplify, and implement—will reveal your unique path to publishing success.
Caring for the Creator: Self-Care Practices for Authors
Join international award winning and USA Today bestselling author Jessica Cage for a conversation with Sue Campbell about the why and hows of self-care for authors.
Jessica Cage is an International Award Winning and USA Today Bestselling Author of speculative fiction and urban fantasy novels. Publishing since 2010, Jessica made a name for herself in Indie publishing through consistent efforts and organic growth of her platform. The author of 35 fiction novels and 18 short stories published in different anthologies, she continues to produce stories that give representation to marginalized communities in fantasy landscapes. Learn more at https://www.jessicacage.com/
Family Matters: The Ethics, Challenges, and Rewards of Writing About Family
Writing a family memoir is tricky territory that can lock you up as a writer. Join bestsellling author and memoirist Laura Davis to learn what to consider when writing about family and why it’s important to write that memoir anyway, whether or not you publish it.
Laura Davis is the author of six non-fiction books, including The Courage to Heal: For Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, The Courage to Heal Workbook, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be and I Thought We'd Never Speak Again: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation. Her groundbreaking books have been translated into 11 languages and sold more than 1.8 million copies.
Laura’s latest book (and first memoir),The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story, tells the story of her dramatic and tumultuous relationship with her mother from a much more dramatic, intimate, and personal point of view.
In the course of her long career as a communicator, Laura been a columnist, a talk show host, and a radio news reporter. Her other passion—aside from writing—is teaching and encouraging others to write. Learn more at LauraDavis.net
An Exploration of Your Publishing Options Because Publishing Your Book Can Feel Scary Too!
Join Brooke Warner of She Writes Press as she helps you explore your publishing options to reduce fear of the unknown.
Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What's Your Book?, and three books on memoir. Brooke is a TEDx speaker, weekly podcaster (of “Write-minded” with co-host Grant Faulkner of NaNoWriMo), and the former Executive Editor of Seal Press. She writes a regular column for Publishers Weekly.
Identifying Core Values & Branding Our Writing
If you’re stymied about what to write and how to position yourself, join Venchele Saint Dic, the founder of Pathway Coaching, as she explores who your core values can help you overcome obstacles to your writing and marketing.
Venchele Saint Dic is the author of Journey to Redemption and Faith in the Amazon Best-selling book Passport to Self-Discovery Volume 2. Venchele is an experienced writer, editor and native French speaker, a cognate education in Public Health with over 8 years of experience. Learn more at https://pathwaycoachwriting.com.
Putting Yourself Out There and Building Your Audience
Join editor and platform coach Joey Garcia in conversation with Sue Campbell to discuss common fears and missteps in marketing and building your platform.
Joey Garcia is a book editor and author platform coach. She helps writers get known while they’re writing a book, so when it’s published, there’s an audience waiting to read it. Joey’s clients have been interviewed by, or have bylines in, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian magazine, Ms. magazine, CNN, and The Tamron Hall Show, among others. Joey is the author of When Your Heart Breaks, It’s Opening to Love and has been a featured Relationship Expert in HuffPost, USA Today, Deutsche Welle, KVIE public TV, Global Woman TV Sweden, Australia’s Ticker News and Slate’s Dear Prudence podcast. Her poetry, short stories, and essays have received awards and been published in Calyx, Mslexia, Hippocampus Creative Nonfiction magazine, Writer’s Digest, The Caribbean Writer, and Hypertext. In 2017, Joey established the first-ever literary fellowship in Belize, her birthplace. A professional speaker, Joey has wowed audiences in the U.S., Sweden, and Albania. www.joeygarcia.com
This Is the Year You'll Finish Your Book
Short on time? Ideas jostling for attention? Here's how to figure out a plan to finish your book (it's not "write every day"!) Discover your best way to work, how to narrow your focus, and how to decide what to let go.
The author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book, Allison K. Williams has edited and coached writers to deals with Big Five and independent presses, including NYT and USAToday bestsellers. She’s guided essayists to publication in the New Yorker, Time, the Guardian, the New York Times , McSweeney’s and TED Talks. As Social Media Editor for Brevity, she inspires thousands of writers with blogs on craft and the writing life.
Allison has written for NPR, CBC-Canada, the New York Times and McSweeney’s among others. A former circus performer, she has eaten fire in 29 countries. Learn more at https://www.allisonkwilliams.com