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Conference, Days 5, 6, & 7
- The Writer's Workout
- Mar 13
- 5 min read
The 2025 Writer's Workout Conference is a whole week of fully accessible, free video workshops available for you on our YouTube channel. Find the full conference playlist below and on our Conference page.
We learned a lot from last year's whirlwind weekend conference. This year, videos start every other hour so you have more time to pause, rewatch, reflect, and try some of the tips, plus chat with presenters and attendees at our watch party in Discord and enter to win a guaranteed space at this year's Writer's Games! Details on the conference page.
Friday, March 21
Tina Tocco
9 am Eastern (1 pm UTC)
If you’re struggling to find publications for your work, you’re in the right spot. Tina shares her secrets of where to find the best journals, magazines, anthologies, and competitions to submit your work and even walks you through each list-based website. She also explains how to understand differing submission guidelines and formatting so you know what your file should look like—based on the requirements—before you click submit.
Includes the Shunn method.
Lisa Fox
11 am Eastern (3 pm UTC)
Prolific flash fiction writer and contest winner Lisa Fox answers what flash fiction is and how/why you should try this quick medium yourself. Lisa covers the basic rules of flash fiction and how to organize big thoughts in small word counts.
This presentation is ideal for overwriters and underwriters, alike.
Stephen Beale
1 pm Eastern (5 pm UTC)
Writer & editor Stephen Beale takes a deeper look at a fascinating sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy known as steampunk. Often overlooked but with a devoted fanbase, this introduction is a unique chance to learn more about why people love this mashup of technology, fantasy, and vintage aesthetics.
Stephen Beale
3 pm Eastern (7 pm UTC)
Join editor of The Steampunk Explorer website, Stephen Beale, as he provides a culmination of his 20+ years of experience in publishing, marketing, and publicity. He shows you what doesn’t work and provides actionable tips for promoting your work as an indie author/writer, both specific to the steampunk sub-genre and for other writers.
Andrea Goyan & Lisa Fox
5 pm Eastern (9 pm UTC)
Join friends and authors Lisa Fox and Andrea Goyan as they explain what a beta reader is, why you should use them, and how to leverage your beta reader’s feedback to your advantage. Learn their rules of beta reading; see real feedback on a short story and how it can be applied (plus when to ignore it). There are so many actionable tools and learning opportunities available through beta reading.
This presentation comes with a worksheet available on our conference page.
Saturday, March 22
Taty Guedes
9 am Eastern (1 pm UTC)
Brazilian translator Taty explains the process of translating a work from one language to another. Find out why it’s so difficult, challenges you don’t expect, the importance of crediting translators, and how rewarding it can be to help a writer publish in another language.
Abigail Wild
11 am Eastern (3 pm UTC)
Publisher and industry professional Abigail Wild takes a gentle approach to breaking down the rules and regulations of media law, including copyright, defamation, and intellectual property for the American publishing market.
Don’t get caught in a publishing scandal!
Alexandria Faulkenbury, Jeremey Harrison, Katy Metzger,
S.E. Reed, & Mariah Stillbrook
1 pm Eastern (5 pm UTC)
Join author S.E. Reed as she interviews four Indie Authors, Alexandria Faulkenbury, Jeremey Harrison, Katy Metzger, and Mariah Stillbrook, about their publication journey with various small presses. Hear about the ups, downs, and find out if this path might be right for you. Do you have what it takes to be your own biggest cheerleader? Because being an indie author is a lot of self-promotion!
Craig Kofi Farmer
3 pm Eastern (7 pm UTC)
Meet award winning author, Craig Kofi Farmer, and hear about his journey from writing Percy Jackson fanfiction to becoming an agented, published author. Learn from his ups and downs and why you should never give up, even if your other stories don't pan out.
Demi Michelle Schwartz
5 pm Eastern (9 pm UTC)
Love podcasts? Join writer, editor, and podcaster Demi Michelle Schwartz in an exploration of the uses and benefits of podcasting in the publishing industry. She discusses best practices, guesting, recording tips, and even provides a checklist for when you’re ready to launch!
Sunday, March 23
Charlotte Goodwin
9 am Eastern (1 pm UTC)
If you thought writing is hard, wait till you try querying. Or, if you’re full of energy, riding the high of finishing your novel and you know a Big 5 publisher is in your near future, this presentation is for you. Author Charlotte Goodwin discusses her own querying journey, key lessons she’s learned from experience, and tips on how to stay positive throughout this (occasionally) agonizing process.
This presentation comes with a worksheet available on our conference page.
Laura De La Cruz
11 am Eastern (3 pm UTC)
Best-selling author Laura De La Cruz provides ways to use AI to enhance advertising, optimize visibility, and leverage engagement. Find out when it’s okay to use the word “AI” as an author—Laura covers the do’s & don’ts when working with AI.
This presentation comes with a few worksheets available on our conference page.
Diane Billas
1 pm Eastern (5 pm UTC)
Learn from YA Author Diane Billas why creating queer characters provides more than valuable representation for young adult readers: it also allows teenagers to see themselves in the pages of novels. Diane shares invaluable information regarding research, beta readers, sensitivity readers and more in this video.
Tommy Dean
3 pm Eastern (7 pm UTC)
Join fiction author, editor, and Literary Agent Tommy Dean as he provides five useful tips for ways setting can enhance your flash fiction. Tommy explains how a deeper, clearer setting can be just as important as fleshing out the characters and offers easy techniques to help you strengthen your story’s visual impact.
Christine Goss, Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Jenna Satterthwaite,
& Vicky Weber, with S.E. Reed
5 pm Eastern (9 pm UTC)
Join literary agents Christine Goss, Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Jenna Satterthwaite, and Vicky Weber in a round-table conversation with S.E. Reed, where they take turns discussing the Querying Author Journey and the role they play as an agent. Understand how every agent is different when it comes to the editing approach and submission strategy. Learn tips on how to find an agent that’s right for you.
These workshops have been carefully and lovingly created—and donated—to help you be a better writer. Watch them as many times as you want, share them with friends, and grow your craft! We'll see you at our watch party in Discord!
<3 — S.E. & Theresa
About the authors:
S.E. Reed lives in the south and writes strange, haunting, real stories of people and places along old highways. Winner of the 2023 Florida Book Awards, the 2024 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, and a finalist in the 2024 Book Blogger Novel of the Year Award. Additionally, she's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Indie Ink Awards, and won honorable mention twice in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest. Her short stories have been featured by The Writer's Workout, SEMO Press, Parhelion Lit, Adimverse, The Writers’ Co-op, Wild Ink Publishing, Hey Hey Books, and Tempered Rune's Press. www.writingwithreed.com
Theresa Green is a co-founder of The Writer’s Workout, a crime fiction writer, and an editor and book coach at Premier Literary Services. Her work is published in various anthologies and literary magazines under a pseudonym.
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