Finnian Burnett

Author, Educator, Cat Person

Hi all! Coming next week, I’ll be featuring a new author every week – talking about their work, advice for newer writers, how they got started. I already have several great authors lined up along with a couple publishers. Stay tuned to this spot on Mondays to see “Five Questions” 🙂 In the meantime, if …

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Reading my notes for this weekend – I’m so excited for power and physicality. I’m just already anticipating the great writing that will come out of it. We’re going to talk about scars, embodied cognition, hands, small physical details that add richness to writing, taking back our own power through narrative about our bodies. This …

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Hi all! I have a couple writing workshops coming up in the next couple of months. First, I’m giving a workshop on writing the body through The Crow Collective. That’s next weekend and space is limited now so sign up if you’re going to do so. If you want to sign up for one of …

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How do you decide which writing conference to go to? I’m so excited to get to spend time at three conferences this summer/fall. In July, I’m going to the Golden Crown Literary Society conference in Denver. There, I’ll be teaching a class, sitting on a panel, maybe doing an author reading from my forthcoming novella-in-flash, …

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I love it when I can combine the research I’ve been doing for my capstone with my one true love – creative writing. In April, I get to teach a two-hour workshop on Power and Positionality: Writing Our Bodies, Ourselves. In this workshop, I’ll be diving into the ways society strips our power to tell …

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