How to Publish a Memoir Zoom Seminar with Elissa Bassist, Sunday, October 6th, 2024

Sunday, October 6th, 2024 Live Seminar via Zoom from 3:00PM - 5:00PM EST  Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Elissa Bassist is the editor of the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus and the author of Hysterical, a semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. As a founding contributor to The Rumpus, Elissa has written cultural and personal criticism since the website launched in 2009. INSIDE JOKES, a humor writing craft book, co-written with Caitlin Kunkel, is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing in 2026. Elissa teaches humor writing at The New School and elsewhere, and she is probably her therapist’s favorite.  In this career-changing seminar, Elissa Bassist—award-deserving author of Hysterical—will reveal how she sold her researched memoir and how you can too. Writing and publishing are two different jobs, and in this seminar, we’ll focus on the latter. There will be real-talk about agent queries, book propo