Knowledge of Craft Our affordable workshops cover what you need to know in 30 hours.
Ongoing Mentoring Our WRiT program pairs you with a published author in a two-year program to complete YOUR story.
Publishing Platform Our partnership with national branding consultant Jacqueline Wolven will teach you to showcase yourself as a unique author.
Community You write in a vacuum, but you are NOT ALONE. We offer support, encouragement, and inspiration at our free social events.
You can spend money on hit or miss workshops and expensive conferences. You can take some workshops on line. But then what?
Find everything you need for your writing career, RIGHT HERE AT HOME.
Village Writers ~ Stronger & Better Together
Your Author's Platform
The Village Writing School is excited to be partnering with Jacqueline Wolven to address the important topic of building a platform and branding yourself as an author. This is an important part of publishing today and a strong platform will tip the scales on whether you are chosen by an agent or publisher.
Jackie has taught blogging for us before, but now she will expand her program into branding, platform building, and social media. She will be teaching for us once a month.
So who is this person with the personal slogan: DO GOOD WORK ?
She lives in a 600-square-foot cottage across a low-water bridge on thirteen acres in the Ozarks. She believes in home-cooked meals, quality time with people, and shutting down the screens.
Yet, Jacqueline Wolven is a national consultant who helps small businesses and entrepreneurs promote their brands and grow. With a background in graphic design (ask her about Ninja Turtles), she is an expert in marketing brands (you are a brand) through traditional and social media. She speaks at blogging conferences nationwide, writes for Huffington Post and Beliefnet.com.
But back to the simple bit: she has been featured in Real Simple, Tiny Buddha, and is a regular contributor to LifeHack.
Her advice? Life should be simpler and work should be smarter.
As writers, we want to write real books, not make a career of social media. Jackie's funny wisdom and her technical savvy can teach us the sane and successful way to find, create, and market ourselves as writers without giving up actual writing.
Jackie's June Workshop BLOG RIGHT June 13 from 9-2
Whole Hog Cafe in Bentonville
We will discuss our Rogers/Bentonville social events
and other topics and NEED YOUR INPUT.
Not a huge time commitment required.
From the Director . . .
The Total Journey
Really, I should just keep quiet, because the second box above says it all. We've finally got all the pieces in place to take you from your desire to write a book to your finished book AND author platform. In two years, if you want.
Oh my cow, that's exciting. And as far as I know, pretty darn unique outside a university setting. So, spend $30,000 to $60,000 on an MFA or plug in with the Village Writing School. Hmm. . .
Of course, we can't credential you to teach or write letters after your name. You'll have to spend the big bucks for that. But if you want to learn to tell your story in a publishable, readable, engaging way, we can do that. If you want to actually write and not just talk about it, we're here to educate, motivate, inspire and guide you.
So, what are you waiting for? Let's get started. Or, if you're already writing, get better. (We can always get better.) If you're stuck, get empowered.
This Saturday, I'll be teaching Dialogue and Setting (and Research).
I organize massive amounts of research for my historical writing, and I bet I can show you a thing or five.
Next Saturday, Jackie starts her series with BLOG RIGHT.
For this issue, we’d love stories, essays & poems that can find their way around the darkest hollers & the seediest city blocks . . . words that know their way around shotguns & fights, black eyes & regret . . . pieces that will shake you to your core because they are unafraid of broaching a difficult topic . . . with aplomb.
Some things never change. Good writing, fresh ideas, clearly defined focus, knowing your audience, all important elements for writing a book that will sell.
Tips on how to get a ‘yes’ from an editor and get your book published.
Not just for writers, a generally inspirational and easy-to-read blog that helps you find your best self. (Scroll down past that big pink box.)
Q u o t e sOn Writing
Write yourself naked, from exile, in blood.
—Denis Johnson
Eureka Springs Rogers/Bentonville Fayetteville Little Rock/Maumelle
Clear Springs Anthology Available
An anthology of student work in various literary and visual arts is now available for $10 at the Village Writing School. Mackenzie Doss designed and taught the creative writing program and organized the anthology.
All funds go to Clear Spring.
Several Villagers came out to support Jessie's performance in the play, "Lying in Judgement" this past Sunday.
Thanks to Val Fondetti, Gail Larimer, Nancy and John Grosella and Alice French and Greg Sherar (not pictured)
Jessie and Jim Holt
This week on the Ozark Harvest RadioValarie Fondetti reads a piece about an important journey.
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address the important topic of building a platform and branding yourself as an author. This is an important part of publishing today and a strong platform will tip the scales on whether you are chosen by an agent or publisher.
