Workshop: The Story of You: Building Your Author Platform with AX Mina
Workshop: The Story of You: Building Your Author Platform with AX Mina
2 Sessions: Tuesday, May 14+28
6:00-7:30pm ET
AX Mina
AX Mina is an author and coach who’s worked with hundreds of clients through coaching programs, 1:1 coaching and workshops. Author of Memes to Movements (Beacon 2019) and The Hanmoji Handbook (MITeen 2022), she loves supporting writers in their creative, intellectual and professional journeys. Her mission is building a more just, compassionate and sustainable world, through coaching, organizational support, wellness work and creative expression. She has spoken at venues like Creative Mornings, Harvard Law School, the Personal Democracy Forum, and the International Journalism Festival, and she has contributed writing to publications like the Atlantic, Fast Company, Hyperallergic and the Economist, and she has exhibited art in spaces such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Mozilla Festival and the Museum of the Moving Image.
As a nonfiction writer, you have great stories, ideas and perspectives to share, and the world deserves to hear them. Clearly communicating who you are and what you do is an essential part of the toolkit of building your platform.
In this two-part, interactive workshop, author AX Mina will walk you through a series of values-oriented exercises that will help you ground the story of yourself as a writer in your authentic values and the why behind your work so that people sit up and pay attention. We'll use your superpower — writing — to build a public story that's true to yourself and your work, while helping elevate your platform for others.
Participants in the workshop should expect to develop and refine their writer bio and come out of the class with a series of practical strategies for building an authentic platform. This course will require at least 1 hour of exercises before each class. There is an option to have a 50 minute 1:1 coaching session at a special rate of $100.
Class 1: Telling the Story of You
Class 2: Building Your Platform
(Optional): 50 Minute 1:1 Coaching Session
While tailored for nonfiction writers, this workshop can work well for writers of any kind.
Workshop Highlights:
Practical skills for growing your platform
Refining your bio and public presence
Staying authentic to your self as a person
2 partial scholarships available. For information, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com
An Xiao Mina is an American technologist, researcher, and artist. She served as a contributing editor for the book Ai Weiwei: Spatial Matters, and her own work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the US and around the world. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Wired, the New Inquiry, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Al Jazeera English, and Hyperallergic. A 2016–17 research fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and product director at the technology company Meedan, her home is wherever the Wi-Fi is.
