OUTwrite Authors Writing Intensive

OUTwrite Authors

a six-week intensive for LGBTQ+ writers ready to take action on the memoir or self-help book they’ve been dreaming of writing

Make 2022 the year YOUR book gets organized, written, edited, and published! This class is for LGBTQ+ writers with nonfiction topics such as: parenting, memoir, self-help, business, and other nonfiction.

Our next OUTWrite Authors Cohort will begin in October 2023.

Applications will open in August 2023.

The class will fill as applications are received.

Make sure you're subscribed to our newsletter to be the first to hear when the application is open, with Early Bird pricing.

A space for LGBTQ+ people who have a desire to write but need help understanding the complex process of writing and publishing a nonfiction book.

This writing intensive is for LGBTQ+ people who have a story to tell (and maybe have even started writing it) but don’t know their best next steps to synthesize and share the story in a publishable way.

Our intent is to hold and share space with queer writers in the early stages of their book writing journey.

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Our next OUTWrite Authors Cohort will begin in October 2023.

Applications will open in August 2023.

The class will fill as applications are received.

Make sure you're subscribed to our newsletter to be the first to hear when the application is open, with Early Bird pricing.

Suzette Mullen

Suzette Mullen is an author, retreat leader, and certified book coach who helps LGBTQ+ nonfiction writers start and finish books they will be proud to share with the world.

From a young age, Suzette has been passionate about standing up for what she believes is right. In 2019, she brought her passion for justice to her new hometown of Lancaster PA when she co-founded The Lancaster LGBTQ+ Coalition.

And all along, she's loved playing with words. Her college besties dubbed her God’s Editor, since she couldn’t help seeing typos everywhere—and pointing them out. She served as an editor at The Harvard Women’s Law Journal and taught legal writing at Harvard Law School. More recently she upleveled her book coaching expertise by becoming certified with Author Accelerator, the country's premier book coaching certification program and community.

Today she is committed to helping LGBTQ+ people write stories that will lift up readers who feel alone, hopeless, powerless, or “othered. Not too long ago, she was one of those readers when faced with the biggest crisis of her life—coming to terms with her sexuality and trying to decide what to do about her marriage. Suzette's mission is to use her gifts and passion for justice to help birth LGTBQ+ stories that bring light and hope to those in darkness. And maybe, just maybe, change hearts and minds, one story at a time, in the process.

Suzette is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Wellesley College, and also holds a certificate in spiritual formation from Columbia Theological Seminary. The proud mom of two adult sons, she is loving this chapter of life with her wife Wendy and their rescue pup Lucy—and is forever grateful the universe nudged her to take a detour five years ago to Central Pennsylvania where she's been embraced with open arms by friends of all ages, genders, and sexual orientations.

Learn more about Suzette and her book coaching at https://www.yourstoryfinder.com/.

Elena Joy Thurston

Elena Joy Thurston is an inspirational LGBTQ+ speaker, trainer, and founder of the nonprofit Pride and Joy Foundation. A Mormon mom of four who lost her marriage, her church, and her community when she came out as a lesbian, Elena’s viral TEDx talk on surviving conversion therapy has been viewed 45,000+ times and landed her media and speaking opportunities with ABC, CBS, Logitech, Michael’s, and more.

Elena Joy recently launched Pride and Joy Publishing, the only publisher of solely LGBTQ+ empowerment and business books. Their first book, Thriving in Business: Strategies for the LGBTQ+ Entrepreneur, hit #1 in LGBTQ+ Studies its first week out, along with #3 in Women in Business.