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Your Name In Print: Get Your Story PublishedHave you fantasized about seeing a short story of yours published in the New Yorker? Award-winning novelist and published short story writer Amelia Gray will give you the resources, structure, and inspiration to hustle effectively, and she’ll take the pain out of the submission process. She will even share her secret recipe for getting your work published. Through her engaging craft talk, you'll learn how to pinpoint your publishing niche, write a killer short story, and craft the perfect query letter. Before long, your collection of short stories will be staring back at you in the window of your local bookstore!
About Amelia Gray: Amelia Gray is the author of "AM/PM" (Featherproof Books) and "Museum of the Weird" (FC2), for which she won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Her first novel, "THREATS", (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was long listed for the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize. Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in Tin House, Poets & Writers, American Short Fiction, GOOD, Guernica, Annalemma, Sonora Review, VICE, McSweeney's, the LA Review of Books and DIAGRAM, among others. She received a BA from Arizona State University and an MFA from Texas State University. She has taught writing and composition at the University of Illinois, Bowling Green State University, Hamilton College, Austin Community College, and Roosevelt College, among others. She has served on the editorial board at Hayden's Ferry Review and Front Porch. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel.
Writing the Marketable Picture Book
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Instructor: Sarah Maizes Tues., June 25, 2013 Cost: $80 (includes snacks, wine and tea) Location: Writing Pad West (Westwood) |
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About Sarah Maizes:
Sarah Maizes is the author of three books for children including"On My Way to the Bath" - a Children's Book of the Month Club Main Selection and Children's Book Committee "Best Children's Book of 2012," and it's upcoming sequels, On My Way to Bed," and "On My Way to School, published by Walker Books/Bloomsbury. She is also a former Literary Agent with the William Morris Agency in NYC representing the following children's book authors: Dav Pilkey, Cynthia Rylant, Paul Zindel, Bill Cosby, amongst others and a former TV development executive for kid's television. Sarah Maizes founded MommyLiteOnline.com - a parenting humor blog - and author of “Got Milf? The Modern Mom’s Guide to Feeling Fabulous, Looking Great and Rocking a Minivan!“ Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Magazine, on The Huffington Post, Today.com, TodayMoms.com, JMag.com, More.com, HybridMom.com, DivineCaroline.com, TheNervousBreakdown.com, Shine.com (by Yahoo!), TheWellMom.com, and Autisable.com (a website for parents of children with Autism). She is a regular contributor to CBS/LosAngeles.com (Best of LA/Families), Momtourage.com and HybridMom.com. She has appeared on “The Today Show”, KTLA News, NBC, and NPR. In addition, she is the creator and co-author of The Bridesmaid’s Guerrilla Handbook (published by Berkley), a Borders Bestselling Trade Paperback.
