Today, more than ever before, writers face challenges to their survival from an increasingly aggressive and corporatized publishing world. Designed for writers at the professional and pre-professional levels who work (or plan to work) for periodicals of all kinds (including academic journals), this intensive workshop serves all those who need to learn effective self-defense methods for protecting their copyright and other rights to their own intellectual property. It provides tested strategies for negotiating favorable terms in dealings with the editors and publishers of periodicals here and abroad. This workshop addresses such fundamental issues as:

• Copyright: Where it came from, how it's created and transferred, and why you want to retain it.

• Defining the assignment: Length, deadline, style, format, fees, expenses.

• Negotiating the fee: Don't blink first.

• Handshake deal vs. letter of agreement: pros and cons.

• Submitting the working draft.

• Revision and its limits.

• Getting paid.

Workshop participants leave with broader understandings of their options and a wealth of tested tactics that they can apply immediately to their current and upcoming writing assignments.

This is a one-day workshop whose content can be compressed into one intensive 3-to-4-hour session.

The Joys of Self-Syndication: A Subsidiary-Rights Workshop for Writers

Here's the secret: You can publish the same piece of writing more than once. Everyone who writes regularly for publication builds up a backlog of material that can have an ongoing role in his or her professional life. You almost undoubtedly have valuable inventory, and may not even know it. Learn how to license reprints of your articles profitably in this workshop on subsidiary rights, which will cover effective ways to maximize income and exposure from your work by arranging multiple uses of it after its initial publication in any format. Topics include the how-to of licensing primary and secondary rights, tactics of self-syndication, and methods for selling to European and other markets. Its ideas, strategies and suggestions are drawn from the presenter's three decades in the field. Issues covered include:

• Licensing Primary and Secondary Rights; or, you can publish the same piece of writing more than once.

• Self-Syndication.

• Europe and other markets.

• Information Sources and Networking.

• Writing and the New Technologies.

• Books and How to Build Them.

• From Essays to Lectures: How to convert prose to speech, and vice versa.

• Teaching what you've learned.

• Self-publishing: last resort, first resort, or dependable standby?

This is a one-day workshop whose content can be compressed into one intensive 3-to-4-hour session.

Professionalizing Your Practice

"Professionalizing Your Practice" is constructed for makers of intellectual property: working writers and photographers and aspiring pre-professionals in those fields. It emphasizes contract negotiation, copyright law, the work-for-hire contract plague, self-syndication and micro-marketing, the impact of new digital/electronic media, ethical issues, and other professional concerns.

This is a single full-day workshop combining the two workshops immediately preceding.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Professional Writing (But Were Afraid to Ask)

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Professional Writing (But Were Afraid to Ask)" is a free-wheeling conversational encounter open to a wide range of participants' concerns.

This is a half-day workshop.