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Substack is the best opportunity to come along for writers in a very long time. The question is how to use it to your advantage? How can you set up your Substack as a portfolio to send editors to (and perhaps agents) to get published in mainstream media? How do you use the Substack network to grow an email list of superfans, not just dormant email addresses? We’ll answer all these questions and more.
Sarah Fay is the leading Substack Growth Strategist and founder and director of Substack Writers at Work, a bestselling Substack with over 36,000 subscribers. She’s mentored hundreds of writers, creators, visionaries, organizations, and companies one-to-one—including former CNN correspondents and commentators Kirsten Powers and Chris Cillizza, publisher Zibby Owens, PBS, Resolute Square, bestselling author and influencer Joy Sullivan, award-winning author Esme Wang, and thought leader Laura McKowen.
With her expertise as the creator of two bestselling, featured Substacks and an award-winning teacher at Northwestern University, she is widely regarded as the go-to Substack expert.
As an award-winning author at HarperCollins, she brings a unique blend of practical experience and industry knowledge to her role as a Substack strategist. Her memoir Pathological was a USA Today bestseller and Apple Best Books Pick, and she writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and The Paris Review, where she was an advisory editor.
Her approach combines platform-specific strategies with professional and creative growth, enabling her clients and subscribers to produce their best work, grow their audience, and increase their revenue using Substack as their online home.
Nadine Kenney Johnstone is a holistic writing coach who helps women develop and publish their stories. She is the proud founder of WriteWELL, an online community that helps women reclaim their writing time, put pen to page, and get published. The authors in her community have published countless books and hundreds of essays in places like The New York Times, Vogue, The Sun, The Boston Globe, Longreads, and more. Her infertility memoir, Of This Much I'm Sure, was named book of the year by the Chicago Writer's Association. Her latest book, Come Home to Your Heart, is an essay collection and guided journal that helps readers tap into their inner wisdom and fall back in love with themselves. Her articles and interviews have appeared in Cosmo, Authority, MindBodyGreen, Good Grit, HERE, Urban Wellness, Natural Awakenings, Chicago Magazine, and more. Pulling from her vast experience as a writing, meditation, and yoga nidra instructor, Nadine leads women’s writing and wellness workshops and retreats online and around the U.S.
Find out more at nadinekenneyjohnstone.com
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