First Look: Our New March Writing Classes Are Live Now!
Want to learn how to verify your family legends, write with a poetic flair, or explore speculative nonfiction? We've got all that and more on tap.
Happy Friday, everyone! Don’t forget to pop over to the Narratively Academy Chat and share your #WeeklyWin. I’m so excited about this next batch of upcoming Narratively Academy classes—all brand-new ones we’ve never offered before. Speaking of new classes, we do still have a few seats left in our last two February classes: Fiction Writing for the Nonfiction Writer which starts Feb. 19, and How to Write a Memoir with Magical Realism, which starts Feb. 24—plus 31 Days, 31 Revision Prompts starts March 1. OK, on to the new announcements!
Verifying Family Lore
When you set out to memorialize family history and folklore in a memoir, things inevitably get complicated. Verifying these stories certainly improves your final product, but sometimes it can feel like bringing a tape measure to a fish tale. Brad Scriber spent two decades fact-checking articles for National Geographic magazine, and in this two-hour seminar, he’ll provide an overview of how you can effectively fact-check family stories.
The Power of Visual Language
Part of what makes any story powerful is the marriage of emotion and image. Led by fiction writer, poet, essayist and scriptwriter Celeste Ramos, this workshop introduces effective exercises to help make your writing more visceral and emotionally engaging, whether you’re working on memoirs, essays or fiction.
Launching a Book Without a Big PR Budget
Writing a book—that’s the fun part. Meanwhile, the word “marketing” sends a shiver down the spine of many a creative writer. But it doesn’t have to. This three-hour seminar, led by novelist Namrata Poddar, will guide you through the many pathways to launch a book, especially for early career writers who have neither a large platform nor the access to a big budget to pay for promotion services.
Speculative Nonfiction Workshop
This one’s not until April but we’re so excited about it that we’re sneaking it into this post. In this six-week nonfiction workshop led by author and editor Haley Swanson, writers will engage with memoirs, poems, and essays that play with the “what if” of things—speculating on what could’ve been—and work on incorporating this approach into your own nonfiction writing.
