Write. Submit. Support. for Novelists with Carrie Jones ONLINE

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Date(s):
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Friday, August 18, 2023

Times: 2:00-5:00 PM CT
Cost:
Inquire for Pricing and Payment Plans

Faculty:
Carrie Jones

Class Size:
10

Number of Sessions:
Six sessions (meeting monthly) with deadlines and feedback

Create the writing career YOU WANT with Write. Submit. Support. (WSS)!

You are dedicated to your writing craft. You have taken webinars, classes, read the craft books, and may even have an MFA, but still you aren’t sure of two things:

Is my work good enough? Really good enough? How will I know I am ready to submit? And to whom?

You know accountability and deadlines serve you. You know you need a balance of deep one-on-one feedback and that you thrive in the company of other talented writers, who are also out to finish drafts, deeply revise, or expand their voice and body of work.

You know you are willing to do the deep work, you just aren’t 100% sure of what that deep work is. Or you long to do the deep work, but life and its messy lifeness keeps getting in the way.

Enter: Write. Submit. Support, a 6 month writing program that develops writers, their projects, and their self-confidence in what work there is left to do as they jump into the query trenches, build a lifelong writing practice, no matter what challenges come their way.


Join author Carrie Jones for a six-month exploration of your literary life!

Write. Submit. Support. Mission: To empower writers, pre-published or published, as well as the instructor, to embrace the many joys and challenges of leading a literary life and to help you complete and/or revise a full or partial working manuscript.

Read more about the history and philosophy of
Write. Submit. Support
!

What we promise:

  • One-on-one feedback from talented published authors who are at the top of the game.  (Line edits AND actionable feedback letters!)
  • Major movement on your draft or deep revision for novelists, memoir and NF writers. Or for picture book writers the opportunity to expand and polish a body of submittable work. 
  • Contemplating and creating a query plan, with exposure to agents and editors, with submission possibilities.

Dates & Times for 2024 Spring and Fall Semesters
(Specify in your application which semester you are applying for)

  • Spring 2024:
    • Sundays; 3/24, 4/21, 5/19, 6/23, 7/21, 8/18
    • From 2-5pm Central
  • Fall 2024:
    • Sundays; 9/22, 10/20, 11/17, 12/15, 1/19, 2/16
    • From 2-5pm Central

Into The Woods Carrie Jones Writing Barn ClassThe typical monthly class entails:

  • A writing exercise to ground participants in the work and to create an atmosphere of creative play.
  • During the first class, a 45-minute lecture on a craft topic by the instructor.
  • During classes 2-6, presentations by participants on craft topics that they are investigating on their own.
  • Conversation on the process of submitting. This is where you share insights from your own career, and the class takes on a particular shape inspired by your personal experience. This conversation keeps in mind that submitting is part of the process, but not the whole of the literary life.
  • Deadlines created for creative and analysis work.

Monthly deadlines:

  • For WSS Novel:  
    • Submit a brief synopsis and up to 15 double-spaced pages, Times New Roman font, of your novel.

Once over the six-month session:

  • Present on a craft topic of his/her/their choosing once during the six months in a 20- minute lecture. 
    • This is designed for the WSS writer to practice public speaking, and begin to build a teaching profile. Many WSS writers have gone on to lead these lectures for paying stipends at writing organizations.

One-on-One with your Write. Submit. Support. Instructors:

  • A detailed feedback letter with comments on submitted pieces. These outline a manuscript’s strengths and where there are opportunities for growth. Feedback letters range in length but are often 3-5+ pages.
  • You will have a 30 minute 1:1 session with your advisor once throughout the 6 month session. This call will be a “strategy session” and writers will provide brief insight into whether they want to discuss querying, craft, etc.
    ahead of time.
  • Creative work returned with line edits/margin comments. (There are 5 turn ins per WSS semester.)
  • A brief response to literary analysis work, craft book write-up, and literary experience essay/paragraph.
  • In-class support on what it means to lead a literary life, sharing of struggles and obstacles, achievements, and triumphs.

WSS programs will include 6 months of FREE
Courage to Create: Intimate Industry Connection Level Access 6 month membership with author, Writing Barn Founder/Creative Director, and WSS Founder
Bethany Hegedus 
(a $525 value!)


About Online Classes

We teach our ONLINE classes in real-time through our virtual Zoom classrooms. This keeps the instruction intimate yet accessible to writers across the country. These classes are not webinars, so we encourage students to take notes and participate in real-time.

Class recordings are available only to those who cannot make the class. This includes those with last-minute technical issues (wi-fi access, etc.) which prevent participation. In addition, recordings are available for two weeks following the class date. Then, we delete these recordings.

We send out class details and logistics a week before classes begin.

Find online learning instructions here: http://www.thewritingbarn.com/zoomonlinemanual


Fees and Payment

Write. Submit. Support. is a 6 month-program and attendees must commit to the full six months. If students miss an online or in-person class session they may view a recording of the class. If a monthly class is missed, attendees are still expected to keep submission deadlines with their WSS instructor.

**Inquire/Apply to see full pricing structure and available payment plans.
Email: info@thewritingbarn.com **

Note: Once you are accepted to WSS and make your first payment, there are no refunds.


Who Should Apply

  • Need Captivate Carrie Jones Writing Barn Write Submit SupportGenres: Middle Grade Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Adult Fiction
  • Writers in need of community, structure, and support to reach the next level in their writing life.
  • Active members of the SCBWI or other writing organizations looking for deep craft instruction.
  • Writers looking for one-on-one feedback from a published mentor.
  • Novelists who are refining a body of work for submission to agents and editors.
  • Writers who are eager to make a commitment to their writing and to living a fully rounded literary life.
  • Authors who are between agents and are looking to take their work in new directions.
  • Authors who may be contemplating an MFA program but aren’t sure of the cost or the time away from family and other obligations.

Desired Outcomes of WSS with Carrie Jones

  • A renewed sense of purpose for each individual writer and the class community.
  • A deeper understanding of the work and each writers’ specific process in creating that work.
  • A broader knowledge base of the industry and what it requires, as well as specific tools for each writer’s toolbox, furthering goals toward completion of novels.
  • The six months commitment allows for high points and low points—writers can take what they’ve learned from the ebbs and flows and apply it to their own evolving literary lives.

Hear more about why WSS might be the right fit for your by scheduling an curiosity call
with our Program Director, Jessica Hincapie

Sign up for a 25 minute Curiosity Call on My Calendar! 


Praise for Carrie Jones and Write. Submit. Support

“Carrie has a fantastic gift as a mentor to give you honest feedback on what needs work in your manuscript without making you question your ability as a writer. She goes through the strengths and weaknesses of your submissions with thought, care, and encouragement.”

“Carrie’s feedback is specific, insightful, and extremely helpful. She is truly invested in helping each of us move forward to make our manuscripts the best they can be.”

“Carrie just happens to be one of those rare cases of extreme talent and excellent coaching.”

“WSS has a holistic emphasis on creativity and the creative life and how to sustain that. “

“I really enjoy the camaraderie of this program. The video conferences bring us together, and we get to know the other participants better than we would with just a phone conference or an online “group” or email swap.  I feel the support! It’s very motivating and just what I needed.”


About the Faculty

Writer, podcaster, editor, and writing coach, Carrie Jones’s award-winning fiction has been translated into multiple languages, and ended up on both New York Times and international best sellers lists, and she has received the Independent Book Publisher’s Award, Maine Literary Awards and multiple press awards, as well as landing on multiple best book lists.

Writing across genres, Carrie was also an award-winning newspaper editor, on-call firefighter, columnist, poetry editor, and photographer, received a MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was awarded the honor of Distinguished Alum. Her podcast, “Dogs are Smarter than People” and “Loving the Strange” have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. In the past two years, she’s worked with over 500 writers, helping to give them the skills and confidence to get their stories out into the world. You can find out more about it and her weird, quirky life at http://www.carriejonesbooks.blog/


Writing Barn classes are nonrefundable. For terms and conditions, specifically for online programming,
please see our WB Policy Page
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