You're a creator.  You write great stories, you make magic. But you want to find a way to get your stories to find their way into the zeitgeist, to be published, to be part of the big intellectual conversation.  We will talk about how to get an agent, whether you need one, how to build the relationships that will help you toward finding a publisher, how to be the kind of writer who gets published.

Each writer in the group will make a plan for the next part of their life that will result in publication.  We will move ourselves from writing in the attic to a bookstore, to the hands of our readers.

Dr. Kate Gale is co-founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review.  She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction.

She is the author of the forthcoming The Loneliest Girl from the University of New Mexico Press and of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone from the University of New Mexico Press in 2014, and Echo Light from Red Mountain in 2014 and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis, which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee.  

She speaks on independent publishing around the US at schools like USC and Columbia and she speaks at Oxford University.  Her opera in process is https://www.thewebopera.com/ and an opera on Che Guevara is in process with Cuban composer Armando Bayolo.