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Publishing Your Memoir
with Brooke Warner
June 9 at 1-2:30 PT | 4-5.30 ET
Cost: $49
Yes, you’ll face an uphill battle if you’re a debut memoirist looking to get traditionally published. There are high expectations about what you, the memoirist, must bring to the table: a big author platform, an existing fanbase, and high-profile connections. And, the world of publishing is so much richer and broader than just the Big Five!
Join Brooke Warner to learn about alternate paths to publishing, author platform foundations, and what you need to know—and do—to be ready to get published.
Flash Memoir
with Grant Faulkner
July 17 at 1-2:30 PT | 4-5.30 ET
Cost: $49
In flash memoir, the whole is a part and the part is a whole. The form forces the writer to move a story by hints and implications. Flash stories are built through gaps as much as the connective tissue of words, so what’s left out of a story is often more important than what’s included.
In this workshop, Grant Faulkner, co-founder of 100 Word Story and the author of The Art of Brevity—will discuss how a different type of storytelling emerges within a hard compositional limit.
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The dates and course descriptions for all of these classes are forthcoming. For now, the instructors are confirmed and our full roster, dates, and class descriptions are forthcoming. Sign up for Path #3 to get access to all these amazing instructors and their class content.
2025-26 Line-Up
August-December Instructors
Carvell Wallace
Carvell Wallace is a writer and podcaster who has contributed to The New Yorker, GQ, New York Times Magazine, Pitchfork, MTV News, and Al Jazeera. His debut memoir, Another Word For Love, explores his life, identity, and love through stories of family, friendship, and culture and is a 2024 Kirkus Finalist in Nonfiction.
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of the memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and more recently of Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life. Her other books are Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving.
Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung is the author of the memoirs A Living Remedy and All You Can Ever Know. Named a Best Book of the Year by over twenty outlets, including NPR, The Washington Post, and Time, All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and an Indies Choice Honor Book. Nicole is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a Time contributor, and a Slate columnist.
Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello is the author of the memoir, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, She is also the author of four books of fiction. She’s the Creative Nonfiction Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and has been published in Salon, the LA Times, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.
Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is the bestselling author of White Oleander, an Oprah book club pick, Paint it Black, and the historical novels The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Noir, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing widely online and in person.
Susan Kiyo Ito
Susan Kiyo Ito is the author of the memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, and a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge. Her work has appeared in The Writer, Hyphen, Literary Mama, Catapult, Hyphen,and elsewhere. She teaches at the Mills College campus of Northeastern University.