Recent books published by alumni of StoryStudio Chicago’s In a Year programs This week StoryStudio Chicago kicked off its third annual Pub Crawl , a month-long online publishing intensive, or program, of classes and panels demystifying the publishing world. The intensive includes advice from established authors, agents, and editors. The local literary nonprofit has supported writers on their publishing journeys for much longer: the organization celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. StoryStudio’s ongoing classes include a series of advanced writing programs. Since its first Novel in a Year program launched in 2012, nearly 600 students (including the author of this story) have come through these year-long book programs, which now span fiction, memoir, and short story and essay collections. Over the past decade, more than 25 alumni of the In a Year program have published books, many of them debuts by Chicago-area writers. Author Rowan Beaird, photo credit Faith Kelsey Photography Novel in a Year alum Rowan Beaird’s debut novel The Divorcées is forthcoming from Flatiron Books this March. She said the program gave her the support and structure she needed to revise her first draft and move the book forward. “ The Divorcées was the second novel I wrote. The first, I finished a draft and it came to a point where I needed to revise it and I just couldn’t see a path forward,” Beaird said. “Why I wanted to take this StoryStudio class, and what felt so unique to me, was that it takes place over the course of a full year and so you have the time to evolve alongside a cohort—to take lessons on craft but also reflect on those lessons with the same group, with the same amazing instructor.” Some students find the In a Year program so helpful, they enroll multiple times. A.D. Nauman finished her second book Down the Steep , published by Regal House in October, over the course of two years in Novel in a Year: Revise and Launch with Abby Geni ( The Body Farm ). Nauman then joined Beaird’s In a Year cohort, where she worked on […]
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