Boost Your Writing Career with September's Forever Workshop
Boost Your Writing Career with September's Forever Workshop
Writer Roadmaps with Steve Chang
Building a writing career in 2024 is hard. A non - icky way to go about it is to find a mentor with industry expertise and connections. This is also hard, so we got you a Steve!
Steve Chang is a Taiwanese writer and educator from the San Gabriel Valley, California. His work appears in Epiphany, Guernica, North American Review, and The Southampton Review, and has been commended by The Iron Horse Prize, the Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize, the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, and even by (some of) his friends. He edits fiction at Okay Donkey, holds an MFA from Cornell, and is the ideal advisor for anyone looking to navigate the writing industry at a professional level.
Over the next 30 days, he will guide you through how to actually advance your literary career. He’ll cover the steps and opportunities that are often gate kept or overlooked, building you a roadmap for your writing career.
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A roadmap to the writer roadmaps
Steve is just one guy and there’s a million different ways to advance in the lit world so he took this workshop in a collaborative direction, pulling best practices from a variety of successful writers in his network.
You’ll hear from a series of professionals and Steve will be your constant, decoding what worked and why and coaching you on how to achieve the same. We’ll spend the last two lessons of the workshop perfecting “The Interview” an essential skill for writers.
We’ll immediately put your takeaways into practice by inviting paid subscribers to pitch us their Roadmap interview ideas. If we accept your idea, we’ll…
Pay you $100 to write it
Work with you on developmental editing
Proof & copy edit to a professional standard
Publish it in to 21,000+ readers
Cool cool, turning this over to Steve now. Enjoy <3
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably wondered, like so many other writers, “OK I’ve published some stuff here and there…now what?”
What other steps could I be taking to further my career?
In this course, we’ll learn different ways to be a writer: to approach and advance our craft and careers, to engage our readership and peers.
Through a series of light and informative interviews packed with resources, tips, and submission opportunities, accomplished writers will discuss the Roadmaps for their own unique career paths. They’ll share the choices that actually moved the needle and why.
Actionable steps for aspirational goals. And lots of surprising advice (and hot gossip).
*Travel show voice* I’m your host Steve and I’ll be taking us through….
Week 1
How to Become a Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow | Mon, Sept. 2 with Tolani Akinola
How publishing in lit mags might be overrated, which workshops and classes actually help, & why MFAs and New York aren't always it.
How to Become a NEA (and Stegner) Fellow | Wed, Sept. 4 with Vida James
Turning literary icons into personal mentors, tips for crafting effective statements of purpose and how to overcome being stuck on "The Ladder of Sorrow."
Week 2
How to Grow Your Writing Career Through Literary Translation | Mon, Sept. 9: with Anton Hur
How to bring a translation from discovery to publication, why personality matters more than “talent” and how to plug into the whisper network
How to Land a Major Deal for Your YA Novel | Wed, Sept. 11: with Jihyun Yun
How Reddit and YouTube can help writers, how to get agents on the phone and what to ask, and what sorts of discipline it takes to write novels
Week 3
How to Write Across Genres and Stay Winning | Mon, Sept. 16: with Lilliam Rivera
How to finish a book-length project (quickly), why we should focus more on craft than career and how to gauge and assert our value in the market
How to Freelance Book Reviews (and Why You Should ) | Wed, Sept. 18: with Terry Nguyen
Why negative reviews and soft coverage are both valid, what a pitch can do beyond securing us work, and why a little "randomness" in a review can be healthy
Week 4
How to Pitch Interviews: A Breakdown | Mon, Sept. 23: with Alexandra Kleeman
What is essential in a strong pitch, how to prep for emailing strangers and how to advance yourself even when pitches don’t go
How to Conduct Better Interviews: 5 Tips for Deeper Q&As | Wed, Sept. 25: with Alexandra Kleeman
Why acting confused isn’t just for the hardware or bookstore, interviewing vs interrogating and why it’s good to share personal baggage
It’s gonna be lit (sorry). If you’d like to receive these Roadmaps as they publish
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This looks like an incredibly valuable month-long workshop. Truly appreciate all that Steve Chang does with the litmag Okay Donkey, so I am really excited to learn more about developing and navigating writer roadmaps through his guidance and insights.