The PopFic Collective welcomes authors TJ Alexander, Anna Burke, Felicia Davin, moderator Fin Leary, and Karmen Lee. These creative leaders are known for writing dimensional, nuanced queer characters that give readers the representation we need in fiction. Each panelist has followed their own writing and publishing path, with journeys that range from independent publishing to small press to traditional.

In this panel, they’ll discuss how they’ve built communities, published work, and connected with their audiences. They’ll also share practical steps that helped them reach their goals, and discuss the importance of the people and organizations who supported them along the way.

As writers, we transcribe what haunts us, putting onto paper what may feel ephemeral yet persistent in our memories. However, in transcribing what haunts us, we are not simply passive conduits between an “actuality” of the past and paper.

The tip sheet that author, advocate, and educator Fin Leary provided is based on his recent event, “Website Creation and Maintenance for Authors.” This essential advice is short, sweet, and and holds valuable information on where you can take your website and how you can take it there, and what you need to include.

Are you experiencing writer’s block? Can’t get over that one chapter hump?

Check out this resource from The PopFic Collective event “Mind-Hack Your Writing Life Using Behavior Psychology” hosted by Sarah EA Hart, a behavior analyst and Emersonian. Through these slides, she walks us us through behavior psychology principles we can apply to our writing life.

Fear can hold us back or drive us forward.

With award-winning author and Emerson College PopFic professor Kirsten Imani Kasai, we’ll learn how to confront and incorporate our shadow selves into our creative work so that we may write, and live, more fully.

Katherine Holmes unpacks her method for submitting work to literary magazines. She shares useful templates, thoughtful insights, and thought-provoking questions.

There is no right way to develop a writing routine, but if you’re not paying attention to your own needs, it can be a struggle to find the time and what works for you. Emerson College PopFic alumnus Ginny has ideas, tips, and tricks for making writing a healthy habit and seeing goals through to the end.

Literary agent Rebecca Strauss shares her expertise and research on query letter construction and the elements that make an agent look twice.

Inanna Carter spent her agency internship on the other side of the query trenches, reviewing letters for literary agents and learning what makes an agent look twice.