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Community Roundtable: Brainstorming

Feeling stuck? Writers' block got you down? Let's figure it out together!

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Community Roundtable: Brainstorming

Community Roundtable: Brainstorming

Feeling stuck? Writers' block got you down? Let's figure it out together!

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Writers to the rescue! If you’re feeling stuck on your current project and aren’t sure where to go next, come to our Brainstorming Roundtable! Share your project and where you’re stuck, and together we’ll try to help unstick you. Get ideas from other writers from all genres and discover different craft techniques. 

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Ages 14 and up are welcome.

Instructor
Emily Smiley

Emily, a writer from South Carolina who now calls Seattle home, crafts stories that reflect the world back to her readers, inviting them to explore deeper truths within themselves. Her novel, Treading Water, came in first in the horror category of the 2024 Pacific Northwest Writers' Association (PNWA) unpublished competition. She’s the programming coordinator for the Writer’s Studio at BARN. She’s also a member of the PNWA and the Seattle Chapter of the Horror Writers Association. Emily is a co-founder of Content Hospital, a speculative fiction writers marketing collective, and is represented by A.J. Van Belle at the Booker Albert Literary Agency. When she’s not giving her readers nightmares, she’s running, traveling, reading, or playing video games.

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