Are you a changemaker ready to publish your book?

Registration is closed for the 2024 Changemaker Authors Conference, organized by Narrative Initiative and the Unicorn Authors Club

Registration for the Changemaker Authors Conference starts at a $10 (USD) sliding scale. Registrants will receive access to the session recordings post-conference.

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This year’s Changemaker Authors Conference will be held virtually over two-days on March 9 & 10, 2024. Sessions are curated to orient movement folks to the publishing industry and the process of writing a book. Keynote Conversations will feature renowned and bestselling author-activists Myriam Gurba (Creep), Randa Jarrar (Love Is an Ex-Country), and Ijeoma Oluo (Be a Revolution). Featured speakers included acclaimed authors, publishing professionals, and organizers discussing how a book can transform a sociopolitical narrative, what to expect when writing about personal and community trauma, and other elements of authoring social change. 

The Changemaker Authors Conference Schedule is available here.

Learn more about Unicorn Authors Club here. The Club has capacity to support writers working in Spanish.

Narrative Initiative's Bookshop Affiliate page includes books by the Conference speakers for purchase. 

Click here for the Conference’s Code of Conduct.

This Conference also marks the beginning of a new application cycle for the Changemaker Authors Cohort. You can watch the Info Session about the Cohort here.

Applications for the 2025 Changemaker Authors Cohort will be open in the summer. Sign up for Narrative Initiative’s newsletter or check this page for updates about the Changemaker Authors Conference and Cohort.

La inscripción ya está cerrada.

La Conferencia de Autores Vanguardistas de Cambio de este año se llevará a cabo virtualmente el fin de semana del 9 de marzo. Desde aprender sobre el negocio de la publicación hasta abrazar la complejidad de la escritura y escribir sobre la naturaleza transformadora de la justicia social, la Conferencia de Autores Vanguardistas de Cambio es un espacio para aquellos en todas las etapas de su viaje de organización y escritura. La conferencia de dos días destaca a artistas multidisciplinarios, activistas y profesionales de la publicación en discusiones estimulantes sobre la importancia de las narrativas de cambio social que nos involucran y conectan en todo el mundo. Las Conversaciones Magistrales contarán con presencia de autores activistas de renombre y bestsellers Myriam Gurba (Creep), Randa Jarrar (Love Is an Ex-Country) e Ijeoma Oluo (Be a Revolution).

La Conferencia de Autores Vanguardistas de Cambio se llevará a cabo en Zoom el sábado 9 de marzo y el domingo 10 de marzo, de 1pm a 4:30pm, hora del este. Habrá interpretación en lenguaje de señas y español. 

Los boletos están disponibles en una escala móvil a partir de $10 (USD). Las grabaciones estarán disponibles para los inscritos después de la conferencia. Esta conferencia está organizada por Narrative Initiative en asociación con Unicorn Authors Club.

Conoce más sobre Unicorn Authors Club aquí. Unicorn Authors Club tiene capacidad para apoyar a escritores que trabajan en español.

La Página de Afiliados de la Librería de Narrative Initiative incluye libros de los oradores de la conferencia.

Haga clic
aquí para ver el Código de Conducta de la Conferencia.

Esta conferencia también está disponible como introducción a la Cohorte de Autores Hacedores de Cambio. El próximo ciclo de solicitudes para la Cohorte se abrirá en el verano de 2024. Obtenga más información sobre la Cohorte aquí.

Changemaker Authors Cohort

A Unique Writing Cohort for Organizers and Thought Leaders

The Changemaker Authors Cohort is a yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement organizers and social justice practitioners to complete books that create deep, durable narrative change to restructure the way people feel, think, and respond to the world.

To help create new networks of opportunity, Narrative Initiative partnered with the Unicorn Authors Club to offer this unique writing cohort for Changemaker Authors. Our first Changemaker Authors Cohort launched in early-2022; the 2023-2024 Cohort will begin in November 2023. This program is partially resourced by the Ford Foundation.

Narrative Initiative’s goal is to nourish and grow long-term progress for social justice by equipping changemakers with the necessary tools, relationships, and resources to build power and share ideas through collections of stories.

The Program

This fully remote program lasts up to a year and will follow a three-term structure, in which Story/Skills/Sanctuary concepts are adjusted for the different stages of the writing process. Each term will have a clear focus and each writer will develop outcomes and goals for both their process and craft. 

The Changemaker Authors Cohort offers support toward making significant progress with your book project (i.e., a full-length manuscript or book proposal) including:

      • Program Orientation
      • Assessment and Goal Setting
      • Access to Curriculum Materials
      • Peer Circles for Accountability and Support
      • Monthly Craft Meetings
      • Individual Coaching
      • Five-Day Intensive Writing Retreat
      • Information on the Publishing Process and Preparing a Submission Packet (depending on genre)
      • Presentations and/or Panels with Publishing Professionals and Authors

Synchronous full-group events follow a monthly cadence, while a community platform offers a depth of resources for individual learning as well as asynchronous discussion. 

The Changemaker Authors Cohort provides many different opportunities for support and community. Each writer discovers their own sustainable writing pace amid the collective momentum toward finishing their books. Apart from the mandatory monthly craft & cohort meetings and the five-day writing retreat, cohort members are free to avail themselves of the program’s offerings in accordance with their own needs and established commitments to their writing.

If you have any questions about the program, please contact us at: changemakerauthor [at] narrativeinitiative dot org.

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