
CONTINUING EDUCATION
In addition to my formal education, I regularly participate in continuing education to update my professional skills. Here are some of the conferences, classes, and webinars I've participated in, as well as the books and podcasts that help me continue to grow as a professional.
CONFERENCES, CLASSES & WEBINARS

2023 Red Pencil Conference Northwest Editors Guild Lynwood, WA

2020 PubWest Conference Portland, OR Session topics include: - Publishing across generations - Metadata - Reader engagement - Book festivals - Publishers & Libraries

2023 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference Seattle, WA Session topics include: - Literary editing - Voice in YA - Folk & fairy tales - Mentorship & non-hierarchical structures - Neurodivergence - 21st Century horror novel - Unconventional stories - Seattle's literary ecosystem - YA romance - Translating books to TV or movies - The surreal in contemporary fiction

2023 Neurodivergent Publishing Conference Session topics include: - Balancing life & creative work - Finding your niche - Synopsis writing - Hyperfocus - Medical plots - Accessibility in events - Self editing for authors

The Next Page Conference Kickstarter Online Session topics include: - Publishing & tech - Radical representation & inclusion - Economic sustainability - Cultivating community

2019 Red Pencil Conference Northwest Editors Guild Kenmore, WA Session topics include: - Macros - Retaining the narrator's voice - Working with independent authors - Inclusive editing

ACES Accelerate 2022 Online Session topics include: - Working with self-publishing authors - Being a multipotentialite editor - Story mapping - Editing without tears - Editing for bias - Keynote with Jenny Lawson - Grammar obscura - Government editing work - Editing for social media - Hedging numbers - Avoiding disability euphemisms - Fiction Editing Coffee Chat

2021 AWP Conference Online Session topics include: - Historical fiction - Science fiction & speculative fiction - Writing for the web - Ask an Agent - Publishing Paid Me - Virtual events - Writing nature - Place in Southern fiction - Responding to contemporary issues in fiction - Publishing futures - Virtues and vices of elevated prose - Compelling plots - Microblogs & influence of Tumblr - Animals in children's books - Neurodivergence in literature - appropriation - Keynote with Joy Harjo

2019 AWP Conference Portland Session topics include: - Book marketing - Genre fiction as political resistance - Art of revising - Editing the patriarchy - Book reviews - Literary events - Podcasting - Alternative pathways to publishing - Diverse narrators - Literary startups - Support for POCs in publishing - Keynote with Tayari Jones

ACES 2020 Online Session topics include: - Invention of the modern American dictionary - Grammar arcana - Developing an editorial process

Romancing the Gothic Webinar Series Online Webinar topics include: - history of the gothic romance genre - Golden Age of Illustration in children's books

Podcon 2020 Seattle, WA

Portland Book Festival 2016-2022 Portland, OR

OrcaCon Seattle, WA Session topics include: - Circle theory workshop - Working from home

Hugo House Seattle, WA Classes & events include: - How to Be an Ally On and Off the Page - Ask an Agent (online)

ACES Webinars Online Webinar topics include: - Unconscious bias - Copywriting - Line editing - Inbound marketing - Microaggressions in editing - Editing graphic novels

Northwest Editors Guild Seattle & Online Meeting topics include: - Conscious language - Helping clients get published - Negotiating & setting rates

GWU Ethics in Publishing Conference Online Session topics include: - Stewardship of authors & ideas - Inclusive language - Anti-racism

Editorial Freelancers Association Online

AIGA Online

Brown University x EdX Online "Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans"

General Assembly Seattle, WA Class topics include: - Intro to UX - Intro to Digital Marketing - Intro to Data Science

Women in UX Conference Seattle, WA
BOOKS & PODCASTS
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