MEMBER SUCCESS STORIES

We love sharing the successes of our members!

Fall 2018

Monica Yancey
"The Importance of Losing Touch in the Social Media Era" published in Months to Years

• "I enjoyed Mark Dostert's creative nonfiction course so much, I enrolled in it more than once! This piece came from the second class I took with him. The feedback took it from a very short draft, only 700 words, into this longer more fleshed out piece. The feedback (positive and constructive) was incredibly helpful!"

"The Importance of Small Talk: Technology is Transforming the Classroom – but Not for the Better" published in Sinkhole Magazine

• "I wrote this piece during my first Writespace course with Mark Dostert in 2017. It was the first non-college writing class I had ever taken and I was very nervous to write and to share my writing. On my review day, my classmates were so kind and positive about what I had written that it was a huge confidence boost. Our instructor was also very positive but at the same time was able to tell me exactly how to finish it, fix it and make it work. It took a long time but I am proud of how it turned out and could not have done it alone. Thank you!"

Brian Sluga
Not Just my Poetry...It's Your Life, Too - poetry collection published on Amazon

• "My poetry invokes the diversity and relates to the similarities that I have experienced across the world. People feel, love, and remember life in many similar ways. Celebrate your life and loves!"

Elizabeth White-Olsen
"How Katy Prairie Landowners Could Help Houston Fight Flooding" published in Houston Chronicle

• "I pitched this interview with Jim Blackburn during a Get Published Party in September, and the interview was published in November."

​Meghan Wang
Essay accepted in Ravishly

Anne Alexander 
"21 Minutes" published in Burningword Literary Journal
"A Bushel and a Peck of Autumn Love" published in Halcyon Days

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