Course Announcement: Writing for Substack

Launch your Substack, write something meaningful, and engage with readers

If you want to start a Substack newsletter but aren’t sure where to begin, my five-week online course, Writing for Substack, will help you get your newsletter off the ground.

In this course, you will get weekly video and written lessons and assignments, professional feedback on your writing, ongoing discussions, and support and community.

This course begins May 8, 2023. (The April session through Litcamp is now fully enrolled. Enrollment for the May session is limited. Go here to save your spot).

Why Substack?

Substack is an amazing platform for writers because it keeps you motivated to write, helps you grow your audience organically over time, and makes it easy to set up paid subscriptions. Whether you want to share personal stories, serialize a novel, market a traditional or independently published book, or create/revamp your author newsletter, Substack can help you find new, engaged readers and communicate more effectively with existing readers.

Who will benefit from this course?

• You are a regular Substack reader and want to start your own, or you started a Substack but rarely post.

• You want to start sharing short essays about a topic that matters to you.

• You want to migrate an existing newsletter to Substack.

• You have a published book or have a book-in-progress, and you want to engage more meaningfully with your readers.

• You’re interested in serializing fiction or memoir.

• You are a blogger who wants to attract more readers to your writing.

• You want to create audience and community around your expertise or your passion.

What to publish on Substack—sample use cases:

Over the past year, I have moved all of my newsletters from Mailchimp and Medium to Substack and have been encouraged by the platform’s ease of use, as well as its ability to attract new readers to my work. It also makes it much easier to find readers for the writers I publish through my small press. Here are sample use cases:

• Serializing a novella and engaging with existing and new readers of my books

• Sharing craft essays and writing inspiration with aspiring writers

• Sharing stories of my life in Paris, as well as notes on traveling and writing

• Publishing and promoting flash fiction by new and established writers at Fiction Attic

Course dates

This course starts May 1 and ends June 2. There are no live sessions. Enrollment is limited. Go here to learn more or sign up.

And check out these Substacks by previous students!

• The Vinyl Room

• Dear Fiction

• Alma Genetrix