Learn from Writers Carolyn Cohagan and Lydia Conklin

Published: Fri, 05/23/14

Happy Memorial Day Weekend, WriteByNighters!

This is a pretty exciting time for us: we set up shop in New York back in January and since then, we've been steadily adding to our arsenal of awesomely talented coaches and consultants, all of whom are itching to help you with your writing.

First Reese Kwon joined the team, closely followed by Anisse Gross, both hailing from San Francisco, CA. Today, we have the pleasure of welcoming two new writers to WBN: Carolyn Cohagan of Austin, TX and Lydia Conklin of Ann Arbor, MI.

Carolyn Cohagan began her writing career as a stand-up comic, performing in comedy clubs all over the world, including New York, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, and Auckland. After studying physical theater at the Ecole International de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, she began to write and perform one-woman shows, traveling to international theater festivals around the world. In Los Angeles, Carolyn wrote and directed short films, worked for Slamdance and the LA Film Festival and was a red carpet host for the Independent Spirit Awards. Carolyn's first novel, The Lost Children, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2010 and became part of the Scholastic Book Club in 2011. In 2014, it was nominated for a Massachusetts Children's Book Award. She has an MA in Writing from USC and is currently at work on her second novel.

Read a Q&A with Carolyn

Lydia Conklin has received a Pushcart Prize, work-study scholarships from Bread Loaf, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, Ucross, the James Merrill House, the Vermont Studio Center, Millay, Jentel, the Astraea Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, Brush Creek, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Caldera, the Sitka Center, and Harvard University, among others. Her fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, New Letters, The New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She has drawn graphic fiction for Gulf Coast, Salt Hill, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. She holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Read a Q&A with Lydia

Are you excited? Yeah, so are we. When it comes to providing you with the highest quality writers' services out there, we're not messing around.

Are you interested in working with Carolyn, Lydia, or another member of the WBN team? If your answer is yes--or even if your answer is maybe--simply reply to this email to let me know. At WBN, every relationship begins with a conversation, so there's absolutely no risk and no commitment until you want there to be. Let's chat.

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Justine Tal Goldberg
Owner, WriteByNight