The next EFA Houston meeting will be Wed., June 28, 6 to 7 p.m. Central, online. Our speaker, Sean Morrisey Carroll, will present Use Your Voice! Speaking Engagements for Editors.

About the presentation: You may have many questions on why you would want to pursue public speaking engagements as an editor. How does public speaking help advance an editing career? Do you need to be an expert in a field in order to speak on it? Where can you find speaking gigs, anyway? Status through visibility, resume-building, and latent marketing are the three main goals of public speaking. Make these work for you! In this EFA Houston talk, Sean Morrisey Carroll will discuss avoiding potential pitfalls, engaging with prospective clients and community advocates, and setting yourself up for success in your public speaking engagements.

About our speaker: Sean Morrisey Carroll is a host of Writers Lunch and has spoken at a dozen writing conferences, including Wiscon, Comicpalooza, and Writefest. He has published fiction and non-fiction in outlets from Artforum to Gulf Coast Literary Journal. Sean is also a developmental editor with Tomeworks Editing Collective and specializes in science fiction, climate fiction, literary fiction, and poetry.

Please click here to register for this and any following events. Guests/visitors are welcome to attend.

This meeting will be recorded for those who can’t attend. If you’d like the link to the recording, please email me (Amy, co-coordinator) at amy@editoramy.com at least one week post-event. We hope to see you (virtually) soon!