Literary Agent & Author Kate McKean: How To Write Through It: Staying Creative and Consistent in Tough Times

We all love to write, even when we hate it. But we all have days when we feel like writing our story is the least important To Do on our lists. Sometimes it is! But most often, we feel better when we get ourselves in front of the keyboard. Literary Agent and author Kate McKean will give you strategies to weather the ups and downs of the writing life, how to forgive yourself when life gets in the way of writing, and how to still hit your goals and find a rewarding creative practice. Do you have to write everyday? It's a more complicated answer than you think! Join Kate for this virtual discussion about writing and the creative life, with insight from an author who's full time job is not writing, as she shares hard-won lessons from her first book Write Through It: An Insider's Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life. Ample Q&A time will be provided in the session.

To purchase a copy of Kate's book in advance of the virtual event:

• Order and have it shipped to you here.
  
• Order online and pick it up in Verona, NJ here.

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Kate McKean is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her MA in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, Catapult, and her first book, Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life is available from Simon Element. In 2026, Sourcebooks will publish her picture book Pay Attention to Me. She writes the Agents & Books newsletter at agentsandbooks.com. You can find her at all the places online as well as katemckean.com.