Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
Taking Your Work Forward
A course by Julia Bell , Writer and Teacher
About the video: Taking Your Work Forward
Overview
“Well done. You now have the knowledge and skills to write successful creative non-fiction. But how do you get your work out there? In this lesson, we'll look at the market for short personal essays and consider the next steps for your projects. ”
In this video lesson Julia Bell addresses the topic: Taking Your Work Forward, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life. Learn creative writing and storytelling techniques to craft engaging nonfiction pieces for publication or personal enjoyment.
Partial transcription of the video
“Taking Your Work Forward In this lesson, we'll consider the markets for creative nonfiction and how to create space for your own work and how to make a committed writing practice going forward. In this first part of the lesson, we're going to consider the markets for creative nonfiction and have a look at some of the major publications where you can submit your work. The first website here is "The Atlantic." These first few websites I'm going to show you are really the A list of websites and print publications. These are the websites that reflect the print publications of these places. It h...”
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Course summary for: Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
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Areas
Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling
Julia Bell
A course by Julia Bell
Julia Bell is a writer and a professor at Birkbeck, University of London.
She loved writing growing up, and by the age of 12, she knew she wanted to do it for a living, thanks to a school-sponsored poetry workshop. She went on to hone her craft with a master’s degree before launching her career in the world of the written word. For her, this creative activity is not only a profession but a lifestyle, and her surroundings are an endless source of inspiration.
Since she got her start, Julia has published three young adult novels—Massive, Dirty Work, and The Dark Light—which have been translated into multiple languages. She has also written several nonfiction books including Radical Attention and the bestseller Creative Writing Coursebook. Her poetry, essays, and short stories have been broadcast on the BBC and featured in publications like The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, Comma Press, and Mal Journal.
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