Online Writers’ Workshop: Swiftly & Dramatically Improve Your Writing

Fall Writers’ Workshops: Online with Writer & Editor C. Flanagan Flynn

We’re living in unprecedented times, but working on your memoir or novel – or that personal essay or article you’ve always wanted to publish – offers you a creative outlet to offset the daily challenges we all face. Workshops formerly taught in person at The Storyteller’s Cottage, The Charles Cheney Inn, Westport Writers’ Workshop, and Arts Center East are now online with special incentives to join a workshop!

The writers’ workshops were specifically designed for the Zoom platform. As a result, they’re limited to six students. During the workshop sessions, we peel back the curtain on the editing process to allow you to see exactly how insightful editing can swiftly and dramatically improve your writing and elevate your craft. You’ll receive moderated verbal feedback from your writing peers, and each session you’ll receive a written editorial critique from C with instructive observations and thought-provoking questions to help you grow as a writer.

Added Incentives to Join C’s Workshop!

A $50 credit toward the next workshop session (late fall/early winter) will be extended to any writer whose writing is published either in print or online as a result of collaborating with C during this session! Refer a new writer to the workshop this session (early fall) and you each receive a $25 discount off this session. To secure your spot, email cflanaganflynn@gmail.com. Five two-hour sessions per workshop. $195. Each workshop is limited to six participants! www.cflanaganflynn.com

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Former Managing Editor of the award-winning Brain Child Magazine and the current Editor-in-Chief of Centered: The magazine of personal stories (nominated for best debut magazine by CLMP), C helps writers develop and shape their writing for publication. As a longstanding book editor, she guides writers to consider macro-level issues: cohesion of narrative structure, story arc, world-building, effectively placing stakes, employing a standout voice, crafting palpable scenes, leveraging sensory detail, creating book-worthy characters, and other writing musts for fiction and nonfiction writers. A former proofreader of Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedias and Weekly Reader Magazines, an attention to detail informs her editing. C’s ability to focus on all facets of revision helps writers finetune their memoirs, personal essays, novels, and articles for publication.

C’s clients have been published by Penguin Random House, Macmillan Publishers, Hachette Book Group, New World Library, Lone Pine Publishing, Outskirts Press, Knepper Press, and countless print magazines and online literary venues including Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Connecticut Magazine, The Good Men Project, The Hartford Courant, The MacGuffin, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Inkling Magazine, Brain Child Magazine, Brain Teen Magazine, Grub Street Literary Review (Towson University), and Centered: The magazine of personal stories. Many writers she’s collaborated with have been nominated for literary prizes, won writing contests, or were profiled in newspapers including The Wall Street Journal and The Hartford Courant.

C studied writing at Yale’s Writers’ Conference and Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation Conference on Narrative Journalism. She earned her M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan University where she specialized in fiction and creative nonfiction. Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and a finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Memoir Magazine, Inkling Magazine, Literary Unleashed, Brain Teen: The Magazine for Thinking Parents, and Brain Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers. Her writing excellence has been recognized by Proximity Magazine, The Southampton Review, and The Connecticut Press Club. She’s lectured about writing and publishing at Bay Path University and Central Connecticut State University.