📅 January 2024
Ready to take your writing career to the next level and power up your platform?
Join Courtney Kocak for New Year’s Newsletter & Pitch Party Extravaganza, a productivity-boosting intensive that will help you craft compelling pitches, land dream bylines, and create impactful content for your newsletter.
This is Pitch Party on steroids, designed for the multi-faceted, platform-building writer on the come up. It’s structured to help you prioritize your efforts in a way that feels true to the writer’s life. You’ll be generating over 22K words throughout the month (!!!), making progress on multiple fronts with maximum efficiency, whether you’re building new bylines, growing your newsletter, working on a book project, or all three. Let’s start off 2025 with a bang!
💡 What to Expect:
Daily Zoom Sessions: Engage in one-hour daily Zoom sessions filled with inspiration, assignments, and focused writing time. The schedule will be determined based on student availability, with some variation to serve different preferences. Can’t attend live? No worries—sessions will be recorded.
Daily Prompts, Publication Targets & Newsletter Assignments: Spark your creativity with daily prompts, each paired with a specific publication target or newsletter goal. Tailor your efforts to suit your writing career.
Real-Life Success Stories: Discover the strategies that have worked for Courtney and other successful writers and how you can apply them to your own writing journey.
Q&A Opportunities: Have burning questions about the writing process, pitching, Substack, or finding the right publications? Get answers on the spot with our daily Q&A sessions.
Personalized Feedback: Receive personalized feedback from Courtney on four assignments—one pitch, one flash essay, one full essay, and one newsletter post—tailored to help you refine your writing, increase your chances of acceptance, and intrigue your subscribers.
Classmate Feedback Swaps: Gain extra insights by participating in weekly feedback swaps with your classmates. Exchange constructive criticism, share insights, and support each other’s progress.
💸 Investment: $500 for the entire month-long course.
🤓 About the Instructor: Courtney Kocak is a writer and podcaster based in Los Angeles. She wrote for Amazon’s Emmy-winning animated series Danger & Eggs and Netflix’s Know It All. Her bylines include The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, Catapult, The Sun, Slate, BUST, Bustle, Business Insider, HelloGiggles, InsideHook, and more.
💬 Testimonial: Wanna read about another writer’s experience with Pitch Party? Read this Substack post by Elizabeth Austin!
Ready to supercharge your writing career, make those dream bylines a reality, and put out a newsletter you’re proud of?
Join us for the New Year’s Newsletter & Pitch Party Extravaganza and kickstart your journey to writing success—while having a blast! 🚀
Limited spots available. Reserve yours today!
(No refunds.)
OTHER CLASSES
RETURNING SEMINAR: Start a Newsletter to Supercharge Your Platform, Network & Business
Kick your newsletter strategy into high grade in the new year! Join Courtney for her one-day newsletter seminar with Writing Workshops on January 4th. In this workshop, she shares all her hard-earned wisdom for developing a newsletter that can be a foundation for your career or business.
RETURNING COURSE: 60-Day Writer’s Platform Coaching
Courtney’s platform coaching program is the perfect way to develop a sustainable content strategy heading into 2025. Whether you have no idea where to start when you get the advice to "grow your platform" or you're gearing up for a launch, this program will provide the tools you need to succeed through daily homework assignments, live coaching sessions, and Facebook group for accountability.
RETURNING SEMINAR: Land Big Bylines by Writing for Columns
On February 15th, Courtney will deconstruct how to land bylines at top publications by writing for columns. She’ll explain the crux of popular columns. You'll do a brainstorming exercise for each, and there will be an opportunity to workshop your ideas and ask questions. You'll receive a list of potential columns and editor contact information for each. By the end, you'll have a game plan for landing your best bylines yet!
RETURNING CLASS: Podcasting for Writers: How to Start, Sustain & Grow Your Podcast
Starting a podcast can be a daunting task, but this four-week class is the perfect kickstart. You’ll refine your concept and get started from recording to editing and promotion to monetization. If you have an existing podcast, but you want to upgrade the quality and/or you’re struggling to gain traction, this course will help you take it to the next level. Courtney will save you time, money, headaches, and answer all your burning questions.
RETURNING SEMINAR: How to Build a “Platform” for Writers Who Shudder at the Thought
Sign up for Courtney’s writing platform seminar—back by popular demand on March 15th—a one-day intensive through Writing Workshops on building your writer platform by leaning into your joys and strengths (and no, you don’t need to start your own podcast).
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