1/27: Austin Channing Brown Writing Workshop #1

1/27: Writing Workshop Launch Event with Austin Channing Brown Austin Channing Brown, author of the recent biography Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession, will join us at Booksweet for the first session in her winter-spring writing workshop series! Your Inside Voice: writing workshops with Austin Channing Brown, hosted by Booksweet Austin will be hosting an ongoing writing workshop series in 2026, with monthly meetings at Booksweet beginning in January! The workshop schedule will be: January 27, February 24, March 24, and April 28. There is a voice inside your heart that only you can hear. Whenever you sit down to write, that voice rises to meet you. It chooses words, reaches for phrases, and creates meaning. The more you write, the more you learn to recognize your inside voice. And that’s when the fun begins. When you learn to listen to that voice, embrace that voice you can create entire worlds that never existed before you set pen to paper. I want to help you honor your inside voice. Every fourth Tuesday from 6:00-7:30pm (except December) we’ll meet at Booksweet to hone our craft together. Each workshop focuses on a different element of writing, and are stand alone. So you don’t have to attend the first one to understand the second one. Workshop #1 Session 1: Work That Sentence Every story is made of words. Those words form sentences. And sentences are the building blocks of storytelling. In this workshop we are going to take sentences apart and rebuild them to make them work for you and your reader. *Bring to class three copies of your favorite piece of writing, 2-4 paragraphs long. Who’s the educator? Austin Channing Brown is a Black woman author whose writing career started during the age of blogging. For four years she wrote compellingly about racial justice in America. In 2018 she published her first book, Im Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness which became a NYT and USA Today bestseller. It was also chosen for Reese’s Book Club and featured in the show Bel-Air. Austin also wrote a young readers version of Im Still Here. In 2025 she released Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession. It also became a USA Today bestseller. In addition to publishing books, Austin writes a successful newsletter with more than 20,000 readers, and she is currently working on her next two book projects. Austin has a business management degree, a masters in social justice and has been awarded an honorary doctorate for her racial justice work and writing.