"Freelancer's Toolbox"

Join us for a discussion about tools, strategies and hustle used by freelance writers, including how to write a good pitch. We'll also discuss how publishing and writing nonfiction pieces can help your other creative work.

SPECIAL GUEST Britt Peterson is a contributing editor at Washingtonian magazine, a former columnist for the Boston Globe Ideas section, and a former editor at Foreign Policy and the New Republic. She writes about culture, language, ideas, and politics for the New York Times, Washington Post, Elle, Slate, the Atlantic, Nautilus, and other places. She teaches journalism as an instructor in Georgetown’s undergraduate journalism program. She is also a recent graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars with an MFA in fiction. Her work has been supported with grants from Bennington College, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference; short stories have recently earned mention in the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize and the Zoetrope All-Story Contest. Pronouns: she/her/hers

HOST Amber Wheeler Bacon is a writer, editor, teacher and literacy coach. She has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is on the board of directors of the South Carolina Writers Association. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Five Points, Post Road, New Ohio Review, Crazyhorse and Witness. You can find her writing online at  Ploughshares, CRAFT, Fiction Writer’s Review and New South. She is the recipient of the 2018 Breakout 8 Writers Prize sponsored by The Author’s Guild and a Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. Her story collection, We Were Vessels, was one of five finalists for Hub City Press’s C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. She is Assistant Fiction Editor at Four Way Review.