“The Art of Freelance Writing” ONLINE with Alex Temblador
February 10, 2021 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM CST
$49.00 – $109.00
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All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week.
Want to see your name in a prominent newspaper or magazine? Are you interested in building a career out of your passion for writing?
Whether you want to moonlight as a part-time writer to make extra money on the side or you have dreams of making freelance writing a full-time career, award-winning author and freelance writer Alex Temblador can tell you how to do just that. In this three-hour class, Alex will provide a presentation on various aspects of freelance writing including:
- The different types of freelance writing
- How to send an article or essay pitch to an editor
- Payment, taxes, and more: the business side of freelance writing
With over five years of experience as a full-time freelance writer, Alex will provide a thorough presentation and answer any questions you might have about the art of freelancing writing.
TAKE THIS CLASS IF
- You’re writing nonfiction articles or essays.
- You’re interested in making your writing a part-time or full-time career.
- You’ve always been curious about freelancing but don’t know where to start.
Instructor
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Alex Temblador is an award-winning travel writer with publications in National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Outside Magazine, TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, VICE, among many others. Although Alex has done copywriting work for Hotels.com and edited travel guides for the likes of Insight Guides, she primarily writes travel articles as a freelance writer. Her coverage of diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in the travel and hospitality sectors has led to Alex moderating the World Travel Market's first Racism & Tourism panel and receiving the 2021 Bessie Award for "Most Impactful Piece of Writing" for her article in Conde Nast Traveler: "Questions Every Anti-Racist Traveler Should Ask on a Trip." Alex lives in Dallas, Texas, and is also the author of two novels, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and the forthcoming, Half Outlaw.
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HOW WLT CLASSES WORK:
Our classes offer a combination of lecture and practical exercises, determined by the individual instructor, on focused aspects of the craft and business of writing. Your fellow participants will come from a range of writing experience, from beginners to people with MFA degrees and published books. WLT instructors, participants, and administrators all work together to create a welcoming, supportive environment.If you haven’t taken a class with us in recent years, feel free to email WLT Program Director Sam Babiak at sam@writersleague.org if you’d like to discuss whether our programming is the right fit for your needs.
HOW ONLINE CLASSES WORK:
Once you register for the class, you’ll receive an email with detailed instructions no later than 48 hours before the class date. You should expect 2-2.5 hours of direct teaching and 30 minutes of Q&A (for three hours total). If you need to leave the class early or can’t attend the class on that date, all registrants will have access to the recording for one month after the class date. No microphone or camera required, just an Internet connection capable of streaming video. All online classes are hosted on Zoom. To learn more about how Zoom works, click HERE.
Plan to log in to the online platform several hours before the class so that you can update your software or any other settings required to access the platform. (Updates usually only take a few minutes, but you don’t want to wait until the beginning of class.) Questions? Email us at wlt@writersleague.org.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.
Writers’ League of Texas classes and workshops are also funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts – Investing in a Creative Texas. For more information, go to www.arts.texas.gov.
This project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
This project is supported in part by the Mid-America Arts Alliance. For more information, go to www.maaa.org.
