Build a Writing Career
on Your Own Terms:
A IN-PERSON Workshop
for all genres
Eleanor Whitney, a writer and educator with over twenty years of experience in marketing and community building, will help you connect with the vision, resources, and community you need to take the next step in your writing life and build an audience for your work.
--held at The Resort in Long Island City, Queens, NYC--
An in-person evening workshop for a small group of writers
The process of building a writing career that fits your life can feel confusing, intimidating, and isolating, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
In this engaging workshop, you will envision what success means to you, and make a plan to connect with your writing community. Learn to share your writing with the world in a way that feels sustainable and in line with your vision and values!
During this two-and-a-half hour workshop, alongside your fellow participants, you will create a vision mission statement and guiding ideas for your writing and craft a sustainable approach to developing an author platform.
NOTE: This workshop is open to writers at all phases of their writing and publishing journey, whether you are just beginning to pitch and publish, working on a book proposal or manuscript, or are actively publishing.
In this workshop, you will participate in exercises such as vision boarding, free writing, and group discussions, to explore the following questions…
How do I define what literary success looks like for me?
How do I find my community and readers?
How do I build a consistent, trustworthy voice, presence, and platform as an author?
How do I work within my unique resources and capacity?
October 18, 2023
6:30pm-9pm at The Resort in NYC
YOUR REGISTRATION INCLUDES AN EARLY COPY OF Promote Your Book (Microcosm, 2023) by eleanor whitney!
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Eleanor Whitney is a writer, editor, and content marketer. She is the author of Riot Woman, a collection of feminist essays examining the impact of the Riot Grrrl movement, and Quit Your Day Job, a business guide and an accompanying workbook for creative people. Microcosm will publish her fourth book, Promote Your Book: Spread the Word, Find Your Readers, and Build a Literary Community in the fall of 2023.
Throughout her career, Eleanor has worked to build communities, education programs, and marketing content strategy at museums, art organizations, and tech startups, including the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Queens College, a Master’s in Public Administration from Baruch College, and a BA in cultural studies from Eugene Lang College. She has taught writing at both Queens College and Eugene Lang College and in community workshops around the country. Hailing from Maine, she divides her time between Brooklyn and the Mojave desert.
BUILD A WRITING CAREER ON YOUR OWN TERMS
Wednesday
October 18, 2023
6:30pm-9pm at The Resort, NYC
(convenient to E/M/7/G subway stop at Court Square; exact address provided after registration)
$150
$150
Your workshop registration includes a copy of Eleanor's latest book!
Promote Your Book offers perspective, practical advice, and checklists for shepherding your new book into the wider world. Traditionally published, self-published, and hybrid authors alike will benefit from these accessible tools and frameworks. No matter what kind of book you've written or where you are in the writing or publishing process, you can always build a community of readers, strengthen your literary support system, and have fun doing it.
Combining her deep marketing and community-building knowledge, Whitney also interviews a variety of authors and publicists writing in different genres about what worked for them and what they learned the hard way. She walks readers through creating and executing a plan to promote their book on their own terms, with whatever resources and time they have available. She reminds us that publicity is a long game that you can begin well before your book is finished and continue long after its release.
Sign up now for limited spots available in this workshop.
We will limit total registrations to 12 people max.
$150
Includes a copy of Promote Your Book!