Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Molly Cameron.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

Do you have an idea for a book? A manuscript you're trying to publish? This is your chance to put your creativity to the test! Come give a one-minute elevator pitch to a panel of experienced editors and agents for real-time Shark Tank-style feedback, or just come to watch how it’s done!

When you become a Virtual Paragraph Member for $25/month , you’ll receive free access to all our events. We’ll take care of the registration for you.

Our judges:

TBD

Brenda Copeland is an editor with more than twenty years’ experience at the big five publishers and over ten years’ experience as an adjunct professor in the graduate publishing program at NYU. She has published a robust list of fiction and non-fiction, quality books with strong commercial appeal, including The Good House by Ann Leary,  Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks, and A Big Little Life, Dean Koontz's first non-fiction book. Now an independent editor, she works closely with authors through all stages of the writing and publication process, helping them reach their creative potential. 

Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Minerva Martinez.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

Do you have an idea for a book? A manuscript you're trying to publish? This is your chance to put your creativity to the test! Come give a one-minute elevator pitch to a panel of experienced editors and agents for real-time Shark Tank-style feedback, or just come to watch how it’s done!

When you become a Virtual Paragraph Member for $25/month , you’ll receive free access to all our events. We’ll take care of the registration for you.

Our judges:

TBD

Brenda Copeland is an editor with more than twenty years’ experience at the big five publishers and over ten years’ experience as an adjunct professor in the graduate publishing program at NYU. She has published a robust list of fiction and non-fiction, quality books with strong commercial appeal, including The Good House by Ann Leary,  Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks, and A Big Little Life, Dean Koontz's first non-fiction book. Now an independent editor, she works closely with authors through all stages of the writing and publication process, helping them reach their creative potential. 

Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Molly Cameron.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

Do you have an idea for a book? A manuscript you're trying to publish? This is your chance to put your creativity to the test! Come give a one-minute elevator pitch to a panel of experienced editors and agents for real-time Shark Tank-style feedback, or just come to watch how it’s done!

When you become a Virtual Paragraph Member for $25/month , you’ll receive free access to all our events. We’ll take care of the registration for you.

Our judges:

TBD

Brenda Copeland is an editor with more than twenty years’ experience at the big five publishers and over ten years’ experience as an adjunct professor in the graduate publishing program at NYU. She has published a robust list of fiction and non-fiction, quality books with strong commercial appeal, including The Good House by Ann Leary,  Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks, and A Big Little Life, Dean Koontz's first non-fiction book. Now an independent editor, she works closely with authors through all stages of the writing and publication process, helping them reach their creative potential. 

Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Minerva Martinez.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

If you’re writing narrative nonfiction, self-help, or memoir, do you really have to be Michelle Obama or David McCullough to beat the odds and be published? No—truth is, agents and editors are eager for great nonfiction stories because they sell. In this session, we’ll address seven key questions that will improve your likelihood of finding success. You’ll come away with new ideas for your work and an understanding of how to develop and pitch your book idea. There will be time for some on-the-spot exercises that will help you avoid common pitfalls, and a Q & A.

KATRIN SCHUMANN is the bestselling author of the novels This Terrible Beauty (March, 2020) and The Forgotten Hours (Feb, 2019), and has collaborated on/ helped develop numerous nonfiction books. Her work has been featured on TODAY, Talk of the Nation, and in The London Times, among others. Before going freelance, Katrin worked part-time at NPR where she won the Kogan Media Award. Currently, Katrin is the program coordinator for the Key West Literary Seminar and teaches writing at GrubStreet in Boston (who’ve published her writing blog for the past nine years). Previously, she was an instructor in PEN's Prison Writing program. Born in Germany, Katrin lives in Boston and Key West. www.katrinschumann.com

*When you join Paragraph, you’ll be automatically registered for this and all events for FREE.

Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Molly Cameron.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

In this interactive session applicable to writers of all levels and genres, we will discuss how to talk about your work in order to achieve a specific goal, such as compelling an agent to ask for pages, getting a reader interested in your themes, or even pitching the media for a story about you or your books. We’ll discuss various examples, brainstorm your writing’s core themes, and do helpful exercises. You’ll leave with tools to try crafting your own one-liners. 

KATRIN SCHUMANN is the bestselling author of the novels This Terrible Beauty (March, 2020) and The Forgotten Hours (Feb, 2019), and has collaborated on/ helped develop numerous nonfiction books. Her work has been featured on TODAY, Talk of the Nation, and in The London Times, among others. Before going freelance, Katrin worked part-time at NPR where she won the Kogan Media Award. Currently, Katrin is the program coordinator for the Key West Literary Seminar and teaches writing at GrubStreet in Boston (who’ve published her writing blog for the past nine years). Previously, she was an instructor in PEN's Prison Writing program. Born in Germany, Katrin lives in Boston and Key West. www.katrinschumann.com

*When you join Paragraph, you’ll be automatically registered for this and all events for FREE.

Humor is instantaneous! Yet, why is it easy to crack someone up in person, but harder to translate humor on the page? In this two-part Writing Workshop we’ll consider the nature of what makes something funny, review strategies for shaping hilarious writing via close reading pieces that tickle our funny bones, and engage with a series of generative writing prompts. Some authors we'll study include Samantha Irby, Binyavanga Wainaina, Danez Smith, Morgan Parker, and more! Finally, we’ll ponder our human relationship to laughter. The best humor punches up, not down, and brings us together.

Sarah M. Sala is a queer poet of Polish-Lebanese descent. She is the author of  Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books 2020), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, and The Ghost Assembly Line (Finishing Line Press 2016). Her poem “Hydrogen” was featured in the “Elements” episode of NPR's hit show Radiolab in collaboration with Emotive Fruition. She is the founding director of  Office Hours Poetry Workshop, and Poetry Editor  at The Bellevue Literary Review. 

Sarah teaches expository writing at New York University, and is currently at work on Migrainer: a book-length experimental poem that examines the interstices of migraine and creativity. Her work appears in BOMB, The Southampton Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. Visit her at sarahsala.com 

* When you join Paragraph ($20/mo), you’ll be automatically registered for this event.

Paragraph's virtual write-ins are writing sessions we do together to stay devoted to our projects and our craft in this uncertain time. It will go like this: everyone meets on ParagraphWriters Slack in #write-ins; we quickly go around, say hello, say their intention or goal for the hour session ahead; then the host says SPRINT! and we all minimize our internet browser and we're off! We will feed prompts every 10 minutes for those who wish to free-write or could use a nudge. At 12pm, we all return to the Slack channel, go around once more and report on our progress (or struggles) re: our goals. It's a great way to write with focus alone, but together!

Join us on our slack channel to write-in (FREE)! Online Membership suggested.

Humor is instantaneous! Yet, why is it easy to crack someone up in person, but harder to translate humor on the page? In this two-part Writing Workshop we’ll consider the nature of what makes something funny, review strategies for shaping hilarious writing via close reading pieces that tickle our funny bones, and engage with a series of generative writing prompts. Some authors we'll study include Samantha Irby, Binyavanga Wainaina, Danez Smith, Morgan Parker, and more! Finally, we’ll ponder our human relationship to laughter. The best humor punches up, not down, and brings us together.

Sarah M. Sala is a queer poet of Polish-Lebanese descent. She is the author of  Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books 2020), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, and The Ghost Assembly Line (Finishing Line Press 2016). Her poem “Hydrogen” was featured in the “Elements” episode of NPR's hit show Radiolab in collaboration with Emotive Fruition. She is the founding director of  Office Hours Poetry Workshop, and Poetry Editor  at The Bellevue Literary Review. 

Sarah teaches expository writing at New York University, and is currently at work on Migrainer: a book-length experimental poem that examines the interstices of migraine and creativity. Her work appears in BOMB, The Southampton Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. Visit her at sarahsala.com 

* When you join Paragraph ($20/mo), you’ll be automatically registered for this event.

Paragraph's virtual write-ins are writing sessions we do together to stay devoted to our projects and our craft in this uncertain time. It will go like this: everyone meets on ParagraphWriters Slack in #write-ins; we quickly go around, say hello, say their intention or goal for the hour session ahead; then the host says SPRINT! and we all minimize our internet browser and we're off! We will feed prompts every 10 minutes for those who wish to free-write or could use a nudge. At 12pm, we all return to the Slack channel, go around once more and report on our progress (or struggles) re: our goals. It's a great way to write with focus alone, but together!

Join us on our slack channel to write-in (FREE)! Online Membership suggested.

Paragraph's virtual write-ins are writing sessions we do together to stay devoted to our projects and our craft in this uncertain time. It will go like this: everyone meets on ParagraphWriters Slack in #write-ins; we quickly go around, say hello, say their intention or goal for the hour session ahead; then the host says SPRINT! and we all minimize our internet browser and we're off! We will feed prompts every 10 minutes for those who wish to free-write or could use a nudge. At 12pm, we all return to the Slack channel, go around once more and report on our progress (or struggles) re: our goals. It's a great way to write with focus alone, but together!

Join us on our slack channel to write-in (FREE)! Online Membership suggested.

In this interactive Craft Talk, Molly Moylan Brown, a Berlin-based creative writing teacher and theatre director, will explore the role of power dynamics in storytelling and the ways it can be applied to strengthen your creative writing. First, you’ll deconstruct a short work of literary fiction to learn about characters’ shifting status in relation to space, objects, actions, and other characters. Next, you’ll see how this writerly tool provides essential tension and dynamism to an unfolding story. Last, you’ll try your hand at putting this important writing tool to immediate use with writing exercises. Molly will be happy to offer feedback on pieces students choose to share. It will be a packed, transformative ninety minutes. $25 or FREE for Members. (You’ll be auto-registered for all events when you join Paragraph.)

Molly Moylan Brown is a writer, creative writing teacher & developmental editor, theatre director, and community activist. For many years, she’s split her time between NYC and various European countries. She currently resides in Berlin, Germany, where her initiatives supporting refugees earned her the Order of Malta. Molly offers her highly practical skills and inspiring methodology online and live through public workshops, festival forums, customized classes, readings, and off-site retreats for an international audience. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Film & Theatre from Trinity College, Dublin, and a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. She has guest-taught workshops at US universities including serving as Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in both the Acting and Screenwriting and Playwriting departments. For more information re Molly’s classes and guest bookings: www.mollymoylanbrown.com

* When you join Paragraph, you’ll be registered for this and all of our events for FREE.

Paragraph's virtual write-ins are writing sessions we do together to stay devoted to our projects and our craft in this uncertain time. It will go like this: everyone meets on ParagraphWriters Slack in #write-ins; we quickly go around, say hello, say their intention or goal for the hour session ahead; then the host says SPRINT! and we all minimize our internet browser and we're off! We will feed prompts every 10 minutes for those who wish to free-write or could use a nudge. At 12pm, we all return to the Slack channel, go around once more and report on our progress (or struggles) re: our goals. It's a great way to write with focus alone, but together!

Join us on our slack channel to write-in (FREE)! Online Membership suggested.

Paragraph's virtual write-ins are writing sessions we do together to stay devoted to our projects and our craft in this uncertain time. It will go like this: everyone meets on ParagraphWriters Slack in #write-ins; we quickly go around, say hello, say their intention or goal for the hour session ahead; then the host says SPRINT! and we all minimize our internet browser and we're off! We will feed prompts every 10 minutes for those who wish to free-write or could use a nudge. At 12pm, we all return to the Slack channel, go around once more and report on our progress (or struggles) re: our goals. It's a great way to write with focus alone, but together!

Join us on our slack channel to write-in (FREE)! Online Membership suggested.