Wondering how to get started on your next project? What to write about? Judy Goldman will explain where her ideas come from and how she develops them so that you can bring your own good ideas to the page. “Coming up with your original concept,” Judy says, “is probably the most crucial part of writing a book, regardless whether it’s a memoir, novel, short story, or essay.” Let her guide you through those initial steps!
Judy is the author of eight books — four memoirs, two novels, and two collections of poetry. Her new memoir, The Rest of Our Lives, is forthcoming in May. Child was a finalist for SIBA's Southern Book Prize in Nonfiction, a Katie Couric Media Must-Read for 2022, and the #1 bestselling nonfiction book of 2022 at Park Road Books. Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) was named a best book of 2019 by Real Simple magazine, is an Editor’s Pick on Amazon, Book of the Month for Our State magazine. It received a starred review from Library Journal.
Her work has appeared in USA Today, Washington Post, Real Simple, LitHub, Charlotte Observer, in many anthologies, and in literary journals such as The Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Ohio Review, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, etc. She received the Hobson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Fortner Writer and Community Award for “outstanding generosity to other writers and the larger community,” the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and Mary Ruffin Poole First Fiction Award from the N.C. Literary and Historical Association, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Central Piedmont Community College, the Gerald Cable Poetry Prize, and all three annual prizes awarded for a book of poetry by a North Carolinian.
