This session provides everything you need to launch your Substack publication. We’ll breakdown the platform’s many features, share strategies to sustain your publication, and start drafting your first post. The class is open to all levels, with no previous online publishing experience necessary.

This class is suitable for writers of all levels.

Nuria Sheehan is a writer and editor who has worked in digital content for over two decades. She teaches in the DePaul MA/MFA program and has been published in the Washington Post, Poetry Foundation, and Brevity, among others

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