A webinar series for women with something to say — and the dream to write.

Hosted by She Writes' own Kamy Wicoff and Deborah Siegel PhD, this series focuses on the craft and discipline of becoming a writer and features guest instructors, Christina Baker Kline and Martha Southgate. The sessions are designed for those looking for help getting going, tools for engaging, and a writing community with which to connect.

Week 1 - JUMPSTART YOUR WRITING LIFE: GETTING STARTED, led by Christina Baker Kline

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Christina Baker Kline is a novelist, nonfiction writer and editor. Her novels include Bird in Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines and Sweet Water. She is Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University and an on-staff editor and writing coach at She Writes. Kline is coeditor, with Anne Burt, of a collection of personal essays called About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror. She also commissioned and edited two widely praised collections of original essays on the first year of parenthood and raising young children, Child of Mine and Room to Grow. She is co-author, with her mother, Christina Looper Baker, of a book on feminist mothers and daughters, The Conversation Begins. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Yale Review, Southern Living, Ms., Parents, and Family Life, among others.

Week 2 - JUMPSTART YOUR WRITING LIFE: THE 5 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE WRITERS, led by Martha Southgate

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Martha Southgate began writing fiction seriously at the age of 30. Twenty years later she is now the author of three novels, most recently Third Girl from the Left. It won the Best Novel of the year award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was shortlisted for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy award. Her previous novel, The Fall of Rome, received the 2003 Alex Award from the American Library Association. She is also the author of the young adult novel Another Way to Dance. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her July 2007 essay “Writers Like Me” in the New York Times Book Review received considerable notice in literary circles and the publishing industry and appeared in Best African-American Essays 2009. Previous non-fiction articles have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere, and Essence. Her new novel is forthcoming from Algonquin books in 2011. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two children, ages 12 and 16.

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Download Jumpstart: Getting Started (audio + slides) $31.17 Download Jumpstart: 5 Habits (audio + slides) $31.17 Download Jumpstart Complete Package (audio + slides) $51.75