Polish and Publish Your Writing

Are you ready to share your work with the world?

Polishing and pursuing publication can be creative and fulfilling experiences. We often believe that sitting down to write and sitting down to revise or send our work out demand different mindsets, but in this class I will encourage you to bring your creative energy to the process of engaging with the larger literary conversation. Remember your purpose for writing as you begin to send your work out into the world, and work through each step conscientiously to improve your odds of acceptance. The following modules will take you through the process of pursuing publication.

Introduction

Module #1: Polish

Module #2: What and Where to Look for Opportunities

Module #3: Guidelines and Terms

Module #4: Cover Letters

Final Notes

About the instructor:

Jen is a devoted creativity coach and teacher whose fiction and creative nonfiction appears in over a hundred publications, including The Saturday Evening Post, NPR Online, Chicago Tribune's Printer's Row, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Her work has been nominated for the Pen Faulkner Award and the Best of the Net awards. Her books include After the Gazebo, Resolutions: A Family in Stories, and The Glass City (Prize Americana winner). ​Jen founded Unleash Creatives to offer new writers access to the information she wished she'd had. She loves bringing writers from idea to draft and draft to publication. For more on Jen's writing, go to her author website.