Nonfiction Workshop, Led by Alice Osborn

Alice Osborn’s past educational and work experience is unusually varied, and it now feeds her work as a poet/book editor and singer/songwriter on acoustic guitar. In the past 12 years, Alice has taught writing workshops to thousands of aspiring fiction, poetry, and memoir authors of nearly all ages from 9 to 90 both around the corner and across continents. Heroes without Capes is her most recent collection of poetry and Old Derelicts is her most recent CD featuring crowd-pleasing favorite originals. Previous poetry collections are After the Steaming Stops and Unfinished Projects. A former editor for Wake Living magazine, Alice is also the editor of the anthologies Tattoos and Creatures of Habitat, both from Main Street Rag. A NC Writers’ Network, NC Poetry Society, and NC Songwriters Co-op board member and a Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared in the News and Observer, The Broad River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Soundings Review and in numerous journals and anthologies. Alice is an Irish dancer who also plays Celtic fiddle and bluegrass banjo. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, two children, and four birds. Visit Alice's website at www.aliceosborn.com and check out her music at www.reverbnation.com/aliceoosborn.
 

How to Create Compelling Nonfiction
Nothing can be short of satisfying when you’ve written a compelling and memorable nonfiction piece whether it is a travel article, flash memoir, a book review, a personal essay, or a feature story for a lifestyle magazine. And to get later paid for your efforts! Join experienced magazine and book editor Alice Osborn as she reveals the four secrets for making your nonfiction shine for your readers and fans: 1) consider your audience 2) focus your lens 3) careful and precise research 4) authenticity. Alice will also talk about editing, revising, and marketing your work so you can actually get paid as a writer with editors emailing you more assignments. We welcome all writers at all levels of experience.