Dear friends,
Greetings from the Hudson Valley, where I hope soon to be feasting on Arethusa Ice Cream, a glamorous dairy operation created by the duo who brought you Manolo Blahnik shoes--for real.
As the second & last part of the paperback release tour for The Third Rainbow Girl I'm real excited to be in conversation with the brilliant writer Wendy C. Ortiz TOMORROW night via Women & Children First books in Chicago at 7pm CST/6pm EST (time zones are hard!). We will be discussing the parallels in our books and lives, delving into the constantly shifting nature of causing and receiving harm, and comparing our interpretations and unique experiences with the concepts of evil and innocence. What better on a snowy eve! Register here.
Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, and the dreamoir Bruja. In 2016 Bustle named her one of “9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, StoryQuarterly, and FENCE, among many other places. Wendy is a parent and a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles.
Also, to recap/ICYMI!!!
Back in the early days of the pandemic, I offered a Reporting for Fiction Writers course and it was such a blast and people have been asking about it since. I've decided to offer the course again on Saturday February 27 from 10am-1pm, this time expanding it to Reporting for Creative Writers. If you have a background in fiction or nonfiction but want to learn the fundamentals of reporting (interviewing, researching like a writer, getting ahold of archival documents, police reports or trial transcripts & the ethics of all this), this class may be for you. Reporting requires no special skills, only curiosity, tenacity, and a willingness to be a little uncomfortable.
The cost of this course is $50.
You can register through a two step process:
1) Venmo me the course fee at emma-eisenberg-1
2) Then, sign up for the meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvfu-gqjIoGdSHK6EZ5OvvC01upLHJN_BW
If you want to take the class but have a scheduling conflict, you may register anyway in the above way, for the class will be recorded and I can send to you after the fact, please just reply to this email so I have your contact info.
yours,
Emma
P.S. I'm reading Matthew Salleses' CRAFT IN THE REAL WORLD. If you've ever taken or taught a writing workshop, this is a 10/10 must read about how the Iowa Writing Workshop has always been failing & what it means to teach writing ethically.