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Every writer you’ve ever admired has had mentors to guide and challenge them. Now is your chance to build your writing team and surround yourself with teachers and other writers who will guide you and cheer you on every step of the way.
Anne Lamott discusses inspiration, creative power, and writing with a mission alongside author, activist, and former First Lady of California, Maria Shriver. Includes Q&A!
Anne Lamott is joined by Tracy Behar, publisher and the editor of her latest book, Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences. Together, they'll discuss the author-editor relationship and the current publishing landscape. Includes Q&A!
Spy thriller master Daniel Silva visits A Writing Room for the first time, joining Anne Lamott to discuss not only how to write a bestselling novel, but how to build a longtime writing career. Includes Q&A!
Author Daniel Pink joins Anne to discuss how to make a writer's voice stand out in the age of AI and endless content and what behavioral science teaches us about procrastination, resistance, and finishing creative work. Includes Q&A!
In our closing session, Anne Lamott and Writing Room co-founder Claire Giovino sit down to talk about how to push through writer's block, common missteps of writers at all stages, and how to turn ideas into finished pieces. Includes Q&A!
The beloved author of ten New York Times bestselling books, California Hall of Fame Inductee, and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Anne Lamott is a living literary legend. Anne partnered with Writing Room at our very first retreat in 2022, and shortly after became a full-time artist in residence at A Writing Room. She brings her passion, humor, and skill as a writer — and human — to this year's cohort, as well as a little “benevolent pressure.” Through her guidance, you will learn how to stop not writing and officially be able to call Anne a mentor who is in your corner.
Maria Shriver is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist and producer, a New York Times best-selling author, an NBC News Special Anchor and the founder of The Sunday Paper, an award-winning digital publication that sits at the crossroads of news, inspiration, culture, health, and spirituality, and includes Maria's own column, "I've Been Thinking." We're thrilled to invite her to teach at A Writing Room for the first time.
Daniel Silva is an award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author. He has written 29 novels and is best known for his Gabriel Allon series. His books are critically acclaimed and have been translated into more than thirty languages. His most recent work, An Inside Job was another instant #1 New York Times bestseller. We're so excited to learn from him at Writing Room for the first time.
Tracy Behar is the President and Publisher of Avery and Tarcher. She joined Penguin in 2024 and was previously at Little, Brown and Company, where she served as VP, Publisher, and Editor in Chief of the imprint she founded, (Little, Brown Spark). Many of the books she's acquired have been #1 bestsellers and have garnered awards, including the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and Books for a Better Life.
Daniel H. Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When, A Whole New Mind, Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have won multiple awards, have been translated into 46 languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world.
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