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Bullet Journaling, Car Retreats & Barney: Ten Hacks for Writing while Parenting
Thursday, February 8, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
In this fun and engaging presentation, five parent writers share their most successful tips for how to write and publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry while raising young children. We'll offer inspiring anecdotes to show how we achieved work/life balance, along with a wealth of resources covering everything from distraction blockers and reward-based writing software to how to train yourself to write anywhere, anytime. Handouts include a list of fellowships and retreats specific to parents.
Participants
Melissa Hart's writing has appeared in Smithsonian, Slate, CNN, Orion, The Advocate, the New York Times, and many other publications. She's the author of seven books including the forthcoming Down Syndrome Out Loud. She teaches for the MFA program in creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University and lives in Oregon. melissahart.com
Rudri Bhatt Patel is a writer, editor, educator, and attorney. She is the cofounder of the literary journal, The Sunlight Press, and is on staff at Literary Mama. Her bylines appear in the Washington Post, Business Insider, Saveur, Civil Eats and elsewhere. She is a two-time Small Fictions nominee.
Estelle Erasmus is an adjunct writing professor at New York University. She has bylines in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon, Vox, Brevity, and more. She is the author of Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published (June 2023). estelleserasmus.com
Andrea Ross's first book is Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness. Her work has also appeared in Ploughshares, Huffington Post, Terrain, The Conversation, Mountain Gazette, and many other outlets.
