Calling all SC (aspiring) writers! Ever wonder how to monetize your craft? Is the thought of entrepreneurship intimidating? We can tell you how to make a living with YOUR ART!

Literary luminaries from across South Carolina will share their experiences with the business of authorship, the hustle through which a passion for the craft of writing becomes a livelihood. Join City of Charleston Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker, Hub City Press director Meg Reid, and Pat Conroy Literary Center Executive Director Jonathan Haupt for a lively discussion on the treasure trove of resources available to South Carolina writers.

Artists of all disciplines are encouraged to attend.

Turn the Page: Literature Workshop Outline

• Good literary citizenship
• Pathways to publication
  Traditional
  Hybrid
  Indie
• Working with agents and editors
• The business of authorship
  (How) do writers make money?
  Who pays for what?
  What else do writers get paid to do?
• Resources and organizations you should now

Presenters

Marcus Amaker was named Charleston’s first poet laureate in 2016. In 2021, he became an Academy of American Poets fellow. He’s also the award-winning graphic designer of a national music journal, an electronic musician, the creator of a poetry festival, and a mentor. Marcus has recorded three albums with Grammy Award-winning drummer and producer Quentin E. Baxter. His ninth book is Black Music Is, from Free Verse Press.

Meg Reid is a book designer and writer living in South Carolina. She is the Director of Hub City Press in Spartanburg, where she finds and champions exciting new voices from the American South. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as assistant editor of the literary magazine, Ecotone, and worked for the literary imprint Lookout Books. She also writes extensively about all areas of design.

Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” He is co-editor with Nicole Seitz of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He is host of the Live from the Pat Conroy Literary Center podcast on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network and an associate producer of the TELLY Award-winning ETV author interview program By the River.

Virtual format: Tuesday, April 12, 6-7:30 p.m.
$10 registration fee (see Registration Fee exceptions below)
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