08/20/2026
Fall instructor spotlight 2!🔎✨
Savannah Brooks earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. She spent the first decade of her career working on literary magazines, at small and hybrid presses, and as a literary agent. In this time, she taught creative writing, publishing, and literature courses at Hamline, the University of Minnesota, and the Loft Literary Center. After contracting a disabling case of long COVID, she relocated to Asheville, NC, where she teaches at the Flatiron Writers Room and the Great Smokies Writing Program and works as a reviewer for The Independent Book Review. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Scuba Diving Magazine, Hobart, and Calyx, among more than a dozen other publications.
About her upcoming class, "Getting Published: Landing Your Work at Literary Magazines, Traditional Houses, & Everything In Between," Savannah writes: Breaking down the publishing landscape into three sectors, this course focuses on the logistics, best approaches, and necessary materials for landing your work at literary and entertainment magazines; small, independent, and university presses; and traditional, hybrid, and self publishers. Each student will leave with drafts of two book reviews, a cover letter, an author bio, a short-form pitch, a short-form submission-ready piece, a query letter and/or long-form proposal, and the first page of a long-form work, all of which can and should be used as templates going forward.
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