Class Description
You've written your personal essay. Now it's time to find a home for it. But is your essay more for a commercial magazine or newspaper, like the New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine, or WBUR's Cognoscneti? Is it edgier and better suited for an online publication like Salon or The Rumpus? Or is it longer and more literary and more experimental, and more likely to appear in a lit mag? In this seminar, we'll look at markets, resources for learning about markets and writer's guidelines, and how to communicate with editors. We'll also look at how to best present your essays, and during in-class exercises, you'll gussy up your lead paragraphs and find a way to describe your essays to editors in an enticing way. Bring an essay you're hoping to publish.
Part of GrubStreet's "Get Published" series, dedicated to helping writers navigate the publishing world. For more on this series' offerings, click here
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
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This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.