
Byline Boot Camp: Everything You Need to Know to Get Your Short Nonfiction Published 6-Week Zoom Workshop with Melissa Petro, Starting Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Begins Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 The class will meet weekly via Zoom on Tuesdays, 7PM - 9PM Eastern Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Melissa Petro is a cultural journalist and author of SHAME ON YOU: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification (Putnam Books, 2024). Her writing has been featured in New York Magazine, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone and many other national publications. She was one of three finalists for the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, an annual award that recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue. She holds a BA in Women’s Studies from Antioch College, an M.Ed in Childhood Education from Fordham University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the New School, and was on the faculty in the Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College until the school’s closu