From Small Press to Big Career
Teaching the art and craft of publishing is at the heart of Lookout’s mission. Throughout our first decade, we’ve worked with the Publishing Laboratory at UNCW to initiate a new generation of editors,
Read MoreTeaching the art and craft of publishing is at the heart of Lookout’s mission. Throughout our first decade, we’ve worked with the Publishing Laboratory at UNCW to initiate a new generation of editors,
Read MoreJoin Lookout authors Clare Beams and Cameron Dezen Hammon alongside Lookout publisher Emily Louise Smith and editor KaToya Ellis Fleming for a conversation about what to expect when publishing your debut book—from finding an agent and signing a contract to planning your tour and sustaining your writing career.
Read MoreThis Is My Body author Cameron Dezen Hammon will teach a spiritual memoir course on how the numinous informs stories. Using the personal essay form, participants will generate new writing that seeks to wrestle with the great mysteries of being a person in the world.
Read MoreSteve Almond will lead a workshop and lecture with the Maine Writers Alliance. Subject focus includes topics such as obsession, doubt, disequilibrium, romantic yearning, and friendship.
Read MoreSteve Almond will lead four workshops throughout the festival, and he will speak alongside Christopher Castellani and Diana Khoi Nguyen at the salon and reading event “Is It Really All About You?”
Read MoreHoney from the Lion author Matthew Neill Null will lead a novel workshop at the Hindman Settlement School Writers’ Workshop.
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