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We are pleased to be offering our first virtual writing workshop for adults! This workshop will be free and open to Library members. Space is limited and advance registration is required. This event runs from 17h00-19h00 on Thursday 9 April. Instructions on how to participate virtually will be emailed by Tuesday 7 April.

Seven Key Questions You Need to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction Book

Whether you’re a beginner or deep into multiple edits, this session will improve your likelihood of finding success publishing your book-length nonfiction (memoir, narrative nonfiction, and how-to). We’ll look at such questions as who your readers are and how to reach them. We’ll explore why it’s important to have one main conflict or theme, and what that means in terms of developing an entire book. And by asking “So what?,” you’ll discover what tricks to employ to make your story more compelling and relevant.

Instructor bio:

Katrin Schumann is the bestselling author of numerous nonfiction books (under her own name and as a ghostwriter), and the novels This Terrible Beauty and The Forgotten Hours. She teaches at GrubStreet in Boston and was an instructor in PEN New England’s Prison Writing program. Now the Program Coordinator for the Key West Literary Seminar, she studied languages at Oxford and journalism at Stanford.

For more, visit www.katrinschumann.com