The Craft of Pitching and Publishing with Laura Goode

The Craft of Pitching and Publishing is a 6-week-long workshop with writer, film maker, and university instructor Laura Goode.  The class will take place on Zoom on Sundays from Feb 21 to March 28 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. PST. Each participant will receive written feedback on a query letter, pitch, or proposal from the instructor.

How do you convince an editor, agent, or gatekeeper that your idea is compelling, relevant, and deliverable? This 6-week workshop by Laura Goode, author of the new book PITCH CRAFT: The Writer's Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid, will take a holistic approach to self-presentation that includes presenting yourself with confidence; optimizing your social media and web platform; networking effectively; writing outstanding agent queries, editorial pitches, and book proposals; avoiding the slush pile, and most importantly, persevering through the inevitable self-doubt and rejection.

Whether you are a scholar seeking to publish for a general audience, an emerging writer sending out your first pitch letter, or a published author expanding your reach, this workshop will give you tools and plan for your professional writing aspirations in 2026.

Laura Goode is the author of a collection of poems, Become a Name, a YA novel, Sister Mischief, which was a Best of the Bay pick by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and a selection of two ALA honor lists, and Pitch Craft: The Writer’s Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid. With director Meera Menon, she wrote and produced the feature film Farah Goes Bang, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize from Tribeca and Vogue. Her nonfiction writing on intersectional feminism, female friendship, motherhood, gender, and race in culture, TV, film, and literature has appeared in BuzzFeed, New Republic, New York Magazine, Longreads, Elle, Catapult, Refinery29, and elsewhere. She received her BA and MFA from Columbia University and currently teaches at Stanford University where she is Associate Director of Student Programs for the Public Humanities Initiative.

This workshop is $480.  For more information, please contact workshops@lareviewofbooks.org.