Julie Cantrell
Author/Editor
Workshops: 1. Five Simple Ways to Take Your Writing Craft Up a Notch. 2. Crank Your Story Engines!
Julie Cantrell is a multiple award-winning, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author, editor, creative writing instructor, TEDx speaker and ghostwriter. She served as editor-in-chief of the Southern Literary Review, teaches through Drexel University’s Low-Res MFA Program, and currently serves as the Managing Director of Story Summit, where she also teaches a wide array of courses, workshops and small groups.
Her novels have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and have been featured in Top Reads lists by LitHub, Redbook, Southern Living Magazine, REAL SIMPLE, BookBub, HuffPost, USA TODAY (HEA) and more. As a novelist, she’s received two Christy Awards, two Carol Awards and the Mississippi Library Association Fiction Award. She was named a short-list finalist twice for the Mississippi Arts & Letters Fiction Award as well as a two-time short-list finalist for the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize.
Julie also received the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Rivendell Writer’s Colony Mary Elizabeth Nelson Fellowship, the Fairhope Writers Residency Fellowship and the Pat Conroy Writer’s Residency Fellowship.
Learn more about Julie: www.juliecantrell.com and subscribe to her Substack column at https://substack.com/@juliecantrellauthor
Workshops
“Five Simple Ways to Take Your Writing Craft Up a Notch (Fiction/Memoir).” As an editor and creative writing instructor, Julie Cantrell will share the top five ways you can make your manuscript tighter, cleaner, and more impactful. You’ll engage in hands-on exercises to put these skills into action and you’ll leave with a checklist to help you revise your manuscripts moving forward. Come write with us!
“Crank Your Story Engines!” Many writers consider EMOTION to be the engine of any story. In this workshop, we’ll explore practical tips to amp up your story’s emotional impact so you can keep those pages turning. You’ll engage in hands-on exercises to put these skills into action, so come join the fun!