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Yoga For Getting Over It
Open your heart and heal with yoga.
My book about using your yoga practice to radically change your life.
Coming soon on Amazon!
July 2, 2016
Summer Classes: Writing & Storytelling
Saturday, July 16, 1-3pm
Sell Your Non-Fiction Book
You’ve got an idea for a book, but to get to a publisher, you’re going to need an agent. Your book proposal is the marketing document that packages your work to sell to an agent, who will turn it around and sell it to a publisher. In this session, you’ll learn the basics of what’s needed in a book proposal, and how that will help you sell your book.
Tuesdays, August 2, 16, 30 & Sept 13, 6-8pm
The Secrets of Selling Your Essays – 4 sessions
Getting your work published involves more than great writing. In this seminar we’ll discuss how writers get published, and each week go over assignments that are geared toward getting your byline out there.
Tuesdays, Sept 27, Oct 11, 25 & Nov 8, 6-8pm
Storytelling for Business – 4 sessions
Storytelling is a marketing strategy used by organizations and businesses of all sizes. Whether you need to craft a blog post, an oral presentation, or a TED Talk, you want to represent your message in a compelling way. In this class we’ll focus on developing oral presentations, and practicing public speaking, and gaining the confidence you need to audiences with your story.
July 1, 2016
New Storytelling Show Launches in St. Pete
I’m thrilled to announce I’ve partnered up with Keep St. Pete Lit to bring a new storytelling show to St. Petersburg. True Stories starts Wednesday, July 13, at Old Key West Bar & Grill in downtown St. Pete. Bring your five-minute-long true story and wow us. The theme for the premiere episode is arrested.
Each month will features a curated storyteller, and YOU. Every person in the audience has the chance to tell a story. Put your name in the hat (or maybe not a hat), and if you’re called you get five minutes to tell your real-life story with a beginning, a middle and an end. No props. No notes. So whether you come to tell or listen, it’s a night you won’t soon forget, because every show a once-in-a-lifetime event.
Admission is $5 suggested donation. There is no free admission. RSVP on Facebook.
“Myth is much more important and true than history.
History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
― Joseph Campbell
WHAT: A themed monthly storytelling show featuring personal, true stories
WHERE: Old Key West Bar & Grill, 2541 Central Ave
WHEN: Second Wednesday of every month, 7pm-9pm
The audience picks the “best” story of the night.
ABOUT: Keep St. Pete Lit is dedicated to fostering the literary arts in St. Petersburg. A 501(c)3 organization, Keep St. Pete Lit hosts a book club with the Museum of Fine Arts, offers classes at the Morean Arts Center, runs a bookstore at Bloom Arts Center, and regularly creates special events.
Lisa Kirchner is the author of the critically-acclaimed Hello American Lady Creature: What I Learned as a Woman in Qatar. She hosted the popular Next Chapter storytelling show at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, and was a story coach for The Moth. At one time she was simultaneously the dating columnist for an alternative newsweekly, bridal editor for a society rag and the religion reporter for a gay and lesbian newspaper. More at www.LisaLKirchner.com
