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
Lynwood, WA Copy Editing | Passive Income | Working with Indie Authors | Freelancing | Career Visions
Portland, OR Publishing Across Generations | Metadata | Reader Engagement | Book Festivals | Publishers & Libraries
Seattle, WA 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 | Adapting Books to Film or TV | The Surreal in Contemporary Fiction
Online Balancing Life & Creative Work | Finding Your Niche | Synopsis Writing | Hyperfocus | Medical Plots | Accessibility
The Next Page Conference Kickstarter Online Publishing & Tech | Radical Representation & Inclusion | Economic Sustainability | Cultivating Community
Kenmore, WA Macros | Retaining the Narrator's Voice | Working with Independent Authors | Inclusive Editing
Online Working with Self-Publishing Authors | Being a Multipotentialite Editor | Story Mapping | Editing for Bias | Government Editing Work | Social Media | Hedging Numbers| Disability Representation
Online Historical Fiction | Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction | Writing for the Web | Ask an Agent | #PublishingPaidMe | Virtual Events | Writing Nature | Place in Southern Fiction | Responding to Contemporary Issues in Fiction | Publishing Futures | Virtues & Vices of Elevated Prose | Compelling Plots | Microblogs & Influence of Tumblr | Animals in Children's Books | Neurodivergence in Literature | Appropriation | Keynote with Joy Harjo
Online Unconscious Bias | Copywriting | Line Editing | Inbound Marketing | Microaggressions in Editing | Editing Graphic Novels | Fantasy Worldbuilding | ChatGPT for Editors | Freelancing
Portland 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
Online Invention of the Modern American Dictionary | Grammar Arcana | Developing an Editorial Process
Online History of the Gothic Romance Genre | Golden Age of Illustration in Children's Books
Online History of Fantasy Literature | Fantasy Creatures
2016-2023 Curtis Sittenfeld | Angela Sterritt with Sasha LaPointe | Taylor Jenkins Reid with Cheryl Strayed | YA Horror with Ben Clanton & Jonathan Hill | Royal Romance with Casey McQuiston & Jasmine Guillory | Karen Russel, Ross Gay & Michael Dickman | Rainbow Rowell | Tom Hanks | Abbi Jacobson with Lindy West | Elizabeth Acevedo, Lauren Groff & Tommy Orange | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Omar El-Akkad & Lidia Yuknavitch | Rivka Galchen | Carrie Brownstein
Seattle, WA How to Be an Ally On and Off the Page | Ask an Agent
Online Intro to Comics with Amy Chu
Seattle & Online Conscious Language | Helping Clients Get Published | Negotiating & Setting Rates
Katee Robert | Paul Harding | Amaranth Borsuk | Jo Segura | Rebecca Ross
GWU Ethics in Publishing Conference Online Stewardship of Authors & Ideas | Inclusive Language | Anti-Racism
Online
Online Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of Storytelling | N. K. Jemison Teaches Science Fiction & Fantasy
Seattle, WA
AIGA Online
Brown University x EdX Online Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans
General Assembly Seattle, WA User Experience | Digital Marketing | Data Science
Carmen Maria Machado | Ijeoma Oluo | Jericho Brown | Ruth Ozeki
Seattle, WA Circle Theory Workshop | Working from Home
Women in UX Conference Seattle, WA