fall 2024: news and updates

midwesterners: hi, hello

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With a major surgery, podcast launch, and temporary relocation to be visiting faculty, it’s been a whirlwind last few months.

So I wanted to take a moment to share some updates, namely upcoming workshops and containers as well as event info about a reading I’m doing here in Iowa next week. (Midwesterners, where you at?)

Upcoming Workshops & Containers

For writers who are interested in pursuing traditional publishing: this weekend, I’m hosting an hour-long Zoom Q&A, WTF is (traditional) publishing? If you have questions about querying agents, how books get acquired, what kinds of creative nonfiction gets acquired and where — I’ve got you. This Saturday October 5th at 12pm Central. Register on Zoom here; $15 for paid newsletter subscribers, $25 otherwise.

AND ALSO. Early Bird Registration for the next and final Showing Up for the Work of 2024, this November, is open! Runs for 4 weeks, November 1-29, and meets 3 days a week (M, W, F from 1-3pm Eastern). Join us as we sprint to finish drafts before the holidays. Early Bird registration goes through October 14th.

While I had planned this Showing Up container to be a pre-holiday sprint, where we slap words down before falling into the Thanksgiving to New Year black hole, it has occurred to me that it is also especially NaNoWriMo friendly.

Because of the timing, this Showing Up session is especially NaNoWriMo friendly. And since in the wake of surgery, recovery, and then flying out to Iowa to teach, my ambitious “finish the next draft of my novel by September 15th” goals were, umm, decidedly not met, I’m going to be aiming to at least hit the NaNo 50k mark. Maybe you also have a draft you’re sprinting to the finish line on?

Upcoming Event

I’ll be reading from Heretic downtown Mount Vernon at Fuel Art & Espresso on Wednesday, October 9th at 4pm Central. I’ll also be signing nameplates for folks who’d like a signature to put in their book. The event is totally FREE and open to the public — come through, Midwesterners! No registration or $ required.

Appreciate y’all, and hope your eclipse hangover isn’t too rough. Talk soon.

Xx,

Jeanna