Publish the Personal Apr-May 2024
You know that getting your essays featured in publications is so important to building your writer platform. You’ve got lots of scenes and starts, but you need direction, feedback, and accountability. Where do you even begin? If you want to finally publish your personal essays, look no further! In this 6-week intensive, we’ll write, workshop, revise, and submit 3 of your personal essays to major publications.
Learn how I’ve helped writers get published in The New York Times, Vogue, Barron's, Brevity, Boston Globe Connections, the Chicago Tribune, Hippocampus, Longreads, Writer's Digest, The Washington Post, Memoir Magazine, Ruminate, Mutha...and how they’ve gotten nominated for major awards like the Pushcart Prize.
This class always sells out! Sign up to reserve your spot!
What you’ll get:
6 jam-packed sessions full of tips on how to make your writing irresistible to editors. We’ll meet for 2 hours via Zoom on Wednesdays, Apr 3-May 15, skipping May 1
Craft talks and lessons on how to write each kind of essay and ensure reader engagement.
A workshop of each of your 3 pieces by a supportive community.
Verbal feedback from me on all 3 pieces you write!
Higher likelihood of having your pieces accepted for publication.
Recordings of craft talks will be sent if you miss.
Learn the secrets that I’ve used to get my writing in Cosmo, Authority Magazine, Chicago magazine, Today’s Parent, Good Grit, Natural Awakenings, Yogi Approved, Urban Wellness, Clean Plates, mindbodygreen, and more!
SCHEDULE:
Apr 3: 10 am CT: Craft talk on Essay 1 + In class writing
Apr 10: 2.5 hr Workshop of Essay 1 (10am or 1 pm, your choice)
Apr 17: 10am CT: Craft talk on Essay 2 + In class writing
Apr 24: 2.5 hr Workshop of Essay 2 (10am or 1 pm, your choice)
May 1: No Class - Catch Up Week
May 8: 10:15 am CT: Craft talk on Essay 3 + In class Writing
May 15: 2.5 hr Workshop of Essay 3 (10am or 1 pm your choice)
Everyone who signs up will be part of our craft talk sessions from 10 am - 12 CT on Apr 3, 17, and May 8. During the other weeks, there will be 2 separate workshop groups that will meet for 2.5 hours at 10am or 1 pm on Apr 10, Apr 24, and May 15. I will survey the group during our first class to see who can workshop when.
No refunds or exchanges.
What people are saying
Sally Schwartz
“As a Nadine devotee, as well as a Publish the Personal groupie, I can attest to the rigors and the rewards of this class. Over the course of six weeks, Nadine leads us in deconstructing three specific writing prompts, and then we get to work writing original pieces and submitting them.
Nadine’s method approaches the work of writing and submitting in the most helpful way: instead of writing a piece and then looking for a site to publish it, she starts with the site. We still writing creatively. But we also write smart, with an eye toward putting our work out there and having it published.
Since taking this course, I’ve had pieces published in The Sun, Brevity, Herstry, and The Sunlight Press. I wrote them, but Nadine gets credit for giving me the inspiration, and the kick, I needed.”
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Robyn Fisher
“I’ve been working with Nadine for the past four years, in individual coaching, participating in her weekly writer workout, and most recently, Publish the Personal class. I’ve learned so much about writing, platform building and publishing! Nadine is not only an excellent writing teacher, but the connections and friendships I’ve made have been through her classes have meant so much to me.
As a direct result from working with Nadine and participating in her classes, I’ve been published in Brevity Blog, I was a finalist in the Women on Writing CNF contest, featured on the Daring to Tell podcast, and a recent essay I wrote for Publish the Personal will be published this summer in the Star 82 Review literary magazine.”
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Laura Thoma
“Nadine is everything one hopes a teacher will be: kind, thorough, and compassionate. She is an expert in her field and a master at creating a safe and thriving cohort. Not only did I learn to write, read, and submit personal essays, I also experienced their power firsthand as I was inspired and impacted by the vulnerability and authenticity of the other writers in the Zoom room. I highly recommend Nadine, and her class Publish the Personal.”
Her piece “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” which she wrote in Publish the Personal, was a finalist for the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest for Wow! Women on Writing.
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Barbara Sapienza
“I've looked forward to Monday Writers Workout for two years now. Nadine's kind and gentle approach as an excellent teacher stimulates and inspires my creativity.
She also encourages us to work together non-competitively in communion, sharing resources and encouraging publication. She helps us find our unique voices.
I love her teaching style and were it not for her I might not have begun to send out my writing. I have published novels with She Writes Press: Anchor Out, A novel 2017; The Laundress, A Novel 2020; Coverstory Books, Making Marks in the Sand, an anthology of contemporary short stories, 2022 edited by Ian Gouge: Dave’s Vigil; Coverstory Books, New Contexts: 2, 2021 edited by Ian Gouge: Ode to Gravitas; Read 650, Voices of Hope, 2021, Yellow Curry and Pink Bromeliads; Readers Without Borders, The Sitting Room Anthology, 2020; essay on the novel Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck.”
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Margaret Ghielmetti
“Nadine is the consummate professional in how she shows up, brings value, creates community, and celebrates other writers! Her ‘Publish the Personal’ was incredibly informative, inspiring, action-oriented, and fun. I would take any class Nadine offers (and I do.) She is highlighted in my memoir as well: for her fantastic writing coach guidance! Read her New York Times piece, A Memory Mea Culpa which she wrote and submitted in Publish the Personal!
Margaret Ghielmetti is the author of Brave(ish): A Memoir of a Recovering Perfectionist. Visit Margaret’s site here.
Tonya Coats
“I have been working with Nadine for less than a year. I have just had my first successful essay acceptance generated from the Publish the Personal Class during Fall, 2021. However, my success is measured more in the amount of material I have generated and the confidence in doing so. Nadine is a master at giving you tools and exercises, and thus confidence to produce outstanding writing on your own.”
Read her New York Times piece, Forever Intertwined which she wrote and submitted in Publish the Personal!