On select third Thursdays of the month from 6-8 PM, we’ll explore a different topic of business or career writing at Lake Lit, from writing and editing job-seeking materials like resumes and cover letters, to the publishing, editing, and corporate communications industries. For our upcoming workshop on Thursday, April 17, we will discuss the basics of publishing creative work, covering:
—The various publication options ranging from Big Five publication to self-publishing
—How to seek out and find an agent
—The differences between publishing non-fiction books versus fiction
—When to start submitting work to agents, independent publishers, and literary magazines or journals
—How to start submitting your writing to various publishers
—Best practices for submissions
If you have written a book and are seeking representation or a publisher, or planning to self-publish, this is the workshop for you! Similarly, if you’re writing poems or short stories that you hope to publish, we’ll also have tons of information for you. This is a lecture-style workshop but we will have plenty of time for questions during the event. Just $20 and includes all materials.
About your instructor:
Erica Floyd holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the owner, founder, and CEO of Lake Literary Center, as well as a writer and editor. Floyd is also former Director of Marketing for Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts and former editor-in-chief of Equipment Today Magazine, as well as the former blog editor, weekly content manager, and flash prose editor for Lunch Ticket, a literary journal. Floyd's writing is published in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Lunch Ticket, Litbreak Magazine, Reservoir Journal, and BusinessWeek, and cited in several nonfiction books. Floyd graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a bachelor's degree from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication, and has worked in consumer journalism, communications, marketing, logistics, compliance, supply chain, and human resources roles since 2010. She is at work on a second novel, a motley crew of flash stories, an incidental collection of personal essays, critical essays, author interviews, and translations. Floyd lives in rural Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where she also co-owns and helps operate Gourmet's Delight Mushrooms, a second-generation, family-owned, certified organic mushroom farm.