Everyone needs A Good reader
We all need honest, critical readers in order to produce our best work. Here you'll find companion resources to chapter 2 of The Writer's Hustle, including articles on workshops and writing groups, sample manuscripts, writing prompts, and links to help you find an online writing group.
PARTICIPATING IN A WRITING GROUP
- Writing Workshop: Can a Writing Workshop Help You Become a Better Writer?
- How to Make the Most of a Virtual Writing Workshop or Conference
- 7 Best Pieces of Advice From Creative Writing Workshops
- 10 Essential Lessons You’ll Learn in a Creative Writing Workshop
- Participation in creative workshops supports mental health consumers to share their stories of recovery: A one-year qualitative follow-up study
- A fourth alternative to the Iowa writing workshop format
- The Rules of Writing Group
ON INCLUSIVE WORKSHOPS
- The New Yorker: MFA vs. POC
- Why We Must Bring LGBT Writing Into the Creative Writing Classroom
- When Being a Disabled Writer Means Being an Educator
- We Build It Ourselves: A Roundtable on Race, Power, and the Writing Workshop
- Negotiating Cultural Difference in Creative Writing Workshops: Close Reading Translations and Interpretive Diversity
- How Men Police Women’s Anger in Writing Workshops
- 16 Writing Organizations for Diverse Authors
- Writing the Other
- The Many Different Kinds of Writers Groups
Sample manuscripts
- Poetry
- Poem Template in downloadable Word Doc and also PDF
- Templates And Examples Of Structured Poem Forms
- Common Poetic Forms
- Fiction
- Short Story Template in downloadable Word Doc and also PDF
- 12 Creative Writing Templates for Planning Your Novel
- 8 Novel Outline Templates That Help You Write Your Story
- Nonfiction
- Drama
- Screenplay
writing prompts
- List of fun short writing prompts/exercises people can use in their own workshops.
