Create, Clarify, Connect
Dates: October 24-25, 2025
Times: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. ET
Why Attend?
Gain new skills, refine your craft, rekindle your creative spirit, and connect with a vibrant community of writers while celebrating the power of human stories.
Registration:
- Early Bird (Before June 1): $140
- Standard (After June 1): $250
What’s Included:
- 2 days of workshops, meeting other creative people, finding inspiration, and having fun
- Select workshop recordings
- A copy of Create & Curate (500 writing and art prompts)
- Fee waiver for any Unleash Contest (Book Prize or WIP)
Featured workshops:
- Writing without expectations with Laura Esther Sciortino's generative and interactive workshop.
- Manifest your creative life with Amy L. Bernstein's all-genre workshop.
- Explore how to write for social good with Nancy Townsley
- Learn the art of revision in poetry with Alexis Ivy
- Discuss art and aging with Carol Fischbach and Christina V. Larsen
- Examine what we can create in community with Sonia Perna
- Learn to rekindle your childhood creativity with a multimedia art workshop by Vanja Kragulj
- Creative leadership & networking co-hosted by Jen Knox and Chris Shanahan
- The art of audio with audiobook narrator Suzanne Warfield
- Discuss technology, adapting prose to film, and more ...
For more information, see the following link: https://unleashpress.submittable.com/submit
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