Tuition: $39
What do you need to do to make a living as a freelance writer? Do you wonder where to start with getting and keeping clients? This session will focus on tools and tips for creating a successful freelance writing life, including ways to find clients, templates to use for client contracts/letters of agreement, and suggestions for finding work/life balance. Participants will receive a handy worksheet to create their own freelance toolkit.
Lisa Lopez Snyder is an essayist and short story writer. Her pieces have been featured in 34th Parallel, Adelaide, Gravel, The Raleigh Review, The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and other magazines. Her essay, “In Transit,” won The Chattahoochee Review’s 2011 Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction and she was named the 2015 Carl Sandburg Writer-in-Residence. A graduate of Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Lisa covered health care policy in Washington, D.C., for a number of years. She received her MFA in creative writing at the University of South Carolina and went on to teach first-year writing at Dartmouth College. She is currently working on a collection of essays about growing up in Huber Heights, Ohio.