Events
CLASS: What Am I Trying To Say? Why Meaning Matters
How do we identify and communicate meaning in our manuscripts, essays, and stories?
In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore tools and prompts for finding what we really want our readers to know.
Tuesday Nov. 10, 6:30-8:30 ET; Live, on Zoom
$55.00
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I got so much out of the replay, truth be told, it's hard to imagine getting anything more … Your class was GOLD!
— What am I Trying to Say class participant through the Lafayette Writer’s Studio.
From Head to Headline: Publish Your Essay(s)
FROM HEAD TO HEADLINE!
Mondays, Oct. 26-Nov. 30 5:30-7:30 PT (SOLD OUT)
OR
Wednesdays, Jan. 6-Feb.10; 2:30-4:30 PT
ON ZOOM
A six-week writing class (limited to 8 ppl) designed to get your ideas and stories out of your head and into a submittable essay format.
Learn the basics of essay structure, the different types of essays, and how to build your platform and writer cred by selling your stories and ideas to publications with a bigger audience than yours.
$350.00
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Tahoe Literary Festival: Building Your Platform Through Essay Writing with Blair Glaser
Tahoe Literary Festival: Building Your Platform Through Essay Writing
A strong platform does not begin with posting more. It begins with having something worth saying.
In this two-part workshop, Blair Glaser explores how essay writing can help writers clarify their ideas, develop a recognizable voice and build a body of work that creates real connection with readers.
The sessions will look at how personal experience becomes meaningful writing, how essays can help shape a larger body of work, and how writers can think about visibility without flattening themselves into a “personal brand.”
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Part I: 11:15 AM
Part II: 1:45 PM
Changing Company Culture Through Thought Leadership Workshop
You know what needs to change. Learn how to frame your idea so people understand it, support it and act on it. A live working session with Blair Glaser and Christopher Fox, limited to 12 participants.
Secret World Books: Blair Glaser + Priya Hutner in Conversation w/ Sarah Leibov
What happens when the thing you thought would save you becomes the thing you have to question?
Join Blair Glaser, author of This Incredible Longing, and Priya Hutner, author of Chasing Nirvana, for an intimate conversation with Sarah Leibov, author of Relative Strangers, about searching, belonging, identity, reinvention and the stories we tell ourselves while trying to find our way.
Printer’s Row Lit Fest: Cults, Conditioning, and Catharsis
Join Blair Glaser, Beth Granger and Priya Hutner in conversation with Sarah Edmondson at Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago, Sept. 12 at 5 PM, exploring memoir, cults, conditioning, catharsis and cultural upheaval.
The Irresistible Allure of Cults: BE WELL by Sarah Flocken and THIS INCREDIBLE LONGING by Blair Glaser
How do smart, skeptical people get pulled into cults and near-cults? What is the line between true spiritual growth and harmful groupthink? The answer is more complex than we think, and could contain some uncomfortable truths.
Authors Sarah Flocken and Blair Glaser will discuss their recent books that both touch on how easy it is to believe in something unquestioningly when your life is in transition. Flocken's debut novel BE WELL and Glaser's memoir THIS INCREDIBLE LONGING both focus on young women searching in high-control groups for the answer to one question: where do I belong?
Portland: In Conversation with Author Debby Dodds
Join authors Blair Glaser and Debby Dodds in a rich discussion about finding yourself and the culty twists and turns once can get sucked into along the way.
Something Larger Than Ourselves: Seeking, Surrender, and Survival
Richman's debut novel Freya the Deer and Glaser's memoir This Incredible Longing arrive at the same raw, searching territory: the hunger for belonging, the dangers of idealization, and the difficulty of staying true to yourself when the pull of devotion runs deep. Join them at Seattle’s Folio Atheneum for a rich conversation about the tasks and perils of a coming of age journey.
Book Jewel Local Author Event
Blair Joins with five other LA authors at the Book Jewel in Westchester to share their books, have a brief Q&A, and book signing.
This Incredible Longing Reading and Discussion
After a reading, Nina Meyers-Martin will lead a discussion about This Incredible Longing, followed by a QnA at Breakwater Books in Guilford, CT.
DC Event
Blair joins activist and writer Cary Umhau inside KBird’s Studio Bar to discuss This Incredible Longing, modern spirituality, activism, and more.
NYC Launch Event
Join Blair Glaser and playwright, author, and filmmaker Brooke Berman in discussing This Incredible Longing.
This Incredible Longing w/the Golden Notebook in Woodstock, NY
Tracking Wonder author Jeffrey Davis joins Blair in conversation about This Incredible Longing at the Woodstock Library.
Truckee Literary Crawl (Memoir)
Blair Glaser reads from This Incredible Longing, with other memoirists Becky Jenson and Elizabeth Reed Aden.
Truckee Literary Crawl kick-off event w/ Priya Hutner
The Search for Belonging: Cults, Longing & Awakening with Priya Hutner (Chasing Nirvana). We’ll have a thoughtful discussion exploring themes of belief, devotion, spiritual entrapment, and the courage it takes to reclaim one’s inner authority.
Sausalito Books By The Bay, Talk With Jacque Gorelick, author Map of a Heart
Blair Glaser (This Incredible Longing) and Jacque Gorelick (Map of a Heart) will discuss their debut memoirs and the joint themes of longing and belonging, at Sausalito Books By the Bay.
More Than A Writer: An Online Panel
Blair joins with writers Jacque Gorlick and Jocelyn Cox to discuss how we use skills from our “other jobs” to boost our writing lives.
March 31, 2026, 1:30-2:30 ET; Live, on Zoom (The Writer’s Bridge) FREE
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More Than a Writer: How Other Roles Inform our Craft
Join Blair Glaser, Adiba Nelson, Jacque Gorelick, Jocelyn Cox, and Rebecca Morrison in focusing on the unique ways our extra obligations or passions provide inspiration, content, and transferable skills. Participants will hear practical advice and strategies to get words on the page, not just in spite of these other roles but because of them. SIGN UP: https://more-than-a-writer-how-other-roles-inform-our-craft.events.asja.org/registration/register
L.A. Launch Event
Celebrate the launch of Blair Glaser’s new memoir This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience, at Diesel Books, for an in-person event in conversation with writer and sexologist Suzannah Weiss.
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CLASS: What Am I Trying To Say?
In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore tools and prompts for finding our “why” for telling and excavating the meaning from our stories.
Nov. 13, 6:30-8:30 ET; Live, on Zoom
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