Get yourself ready to publish! This workshop is for writers of all ages and experience levels, whether you write poems, plays, memoirs, novels, short stories, comic books or anything else.

Sullivan County humor and fiction writer Bizzy Coy will be your friendly guide for the afternoon. She’ll share her personal experience publishing nationally (The New Yorker, McSweeney’s) and locally (Grand Journal, Litt Magazine). She’ll also talk about the process of self-publishing her first book…and the hundreds of rejections she’s received over many years of writing.

The bulk of our workshop will center on YOUR publishing goals and how to reach them. We’ll discuss submission strategies, how to make connections in the literary world, ways to fund self-publishing, overcoming psychological barriers to sharing your work, handling rejection and so much more.

You’ll get a copy of Bizzy’s brand-new zine about publishing, filled with tips, tactics and encouragement for your journey, as well as a long list of opportunities available to you right here in Sullivan County.

More about Bizzy: Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Vulture, The Belladonna, The Establishment, Points in Case, Litt Magazine and Grand Journal. Recent honors include a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, MacDowell Fellowship and Individual Artist Grant from the DVAA. A lifelong resident of New York State, Bizzy was born and raised in the Rochester suburbs and has lived in the Upper Delaware River Valley of Sullivan County since 2013. She received her BA from SUNY Geneseo and her MA in Creative Writing from Dublin City University. You may have heard her read her work aloud at local events hosted by Yarnslingers, Deep Water Literary Fest, DVAA and WJFF.

Registration required. Workshop limited to 14 participants.