Do you sometimes feel like you’re wasting too much energy climbing out of yet another writing slump? Or wasting too much time organizing your notes, your files, your life? 

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      Leave all that negative stuff behind.

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      We will bring clarity, focus, and renewed strength to your writing practice through writing exercises, planning tools, and SMART strategies designed to connect you to the joy of writing.

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     Sarah Cortez has been working with authors as a teacher, writing coach, developmental editor, and cheer leader since 1999, with her creative writing instruction spanning students from first grade to graduate level and beyond. She’s worked for several publishing houses as a developmental editor and has fourteen traditionally published books in poetry, essay, crime fiction, YA, and literary fiction.  She is a Councilor of the Texas Institute of Letters, Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

     Her poems, essays, book reviews, and short stories have been anthologized and published in journals, such as Texas Monthly, Rattle, The Sun, Pennsylvania English, Texas Review, Louisiana Literature, The Midwest Quarterly, Southwestern American Literature.  Her books have placed as finalists and won many contests, such as the Writers’ League of Texas Awards, Los Angeles Book Festival Awards, The National Federation of Press Women Communications Awards, the PEN Southwest Poetry Awards, International Latino Book Awards, Border Region Librarians Assn. Award, Tucson Book Festival Awards, Press Women of Texas Editing Award.  She has been both a Houston and Texas finalist for poet laureate. Her latest novel is a crime fiction thriller, The Carlucci Betrayal.

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You can connect with Sarah on Facebook facebook.com/sarah.cortez.writer at and Linkedin at linkedin.com/in/SarahCortezWriter