Begins Wednesday, December 9th, 2026

Live Seminar via Zoom from 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET

🌍 Class Times by Time Zone: Los Angeles (PST): 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM / Chicago (CST): 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM / New York (EST): 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM

A recording will be provided if you cannot attend live.

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Instructor Alex Temblador is the award-winning author of a writing craft book, Writing An Identity Not Your Own, and two magical realism novels, Half Outlaw and Secrets of the Casa Rosada. In addition to receiving her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma, Alex's creative work has been published in literary outlets like PALABRITAS, D Magazine, Colorado Review, as well as two anthologies — Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Alex has taught creative writing seminars, workshops, and classes with WritingWorkshops.com, the Women's Fiction Writers Association, the Writer's League of Texas, StoryStudio Chicago, WorldShift: The Speculative Fiction Writer's Summit, Texas Book Festival, Macmillan Publishers, Abydos Learning Conference, and more. When she's not writing her next book, Alex is working as an award-winning journalist, traveling, gardening, or exploring her home base of Dallas with friends.

Who is this class for?

This online writing class is for writers interested in freelance writing, whether that means articles and essays for magazines and websites or copy for businesses and social media. All levels are welcome. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of where to find freelance writing gigs, how to pitch articles to editors, and how to handle the business side — taxes, contracts, negotiations, and more.

What to expect:

Do you want to travel the world for free, review kitchen appliances, investigate an underground culture, highlight amazing individuals making an impact, analyze your favorite TV show, inform people about current events, or write copy about makeup that has consumers pressing the buy button? You might want to be a freelance writer.

Award-winning journalist Alex Temblador has been a full-time freelance writer for 11 years, and she'd like to share the secrets of the industry with you. In this 2.5-hour online writing seminar, you'll learn about the range of freelance writing gigs — from article and essay writing to commerce reviews, ghostwriting, and copywriting — so you can better understand which one might be the best fit for your skills and interests. Alex will explain where to find freelance writing gigs, strategies for applying to writing jobs, and the business side of things like contracts, taxes, negotiating payments, and more.

She'll even show you how to write an article or essay pitch that you can send to an editor at your favorite magazine or newspaper. Alex's approach in this Zoom writing class is built on actionable tips and strategies drawn from more than a decade of full-time freelancing, so you can step into the industry and start earning supplemental or full-time income right away. After taking this freelance writing seminar, you'll leave with all the tools to prove that whoever said you can't make money with writing was wrong.

What are the writing goals?

In this course, students will produce one article or essay pitch they can send to an editor right away. Alex will walk through the anatomy of a strong pitch, and students will have the chance to ask questions and get answers live throughout the seminar.

COURSE TAKEAWAYS:

• Understand the full range of freelance writing gigs, from articles and essays to commerce reviews, ghostwriting, and copywriting
  
• Learn where to find freelance writing work and which strategies actually land assignments
  
• Write an article or essay pitch you can send to an editor immediately
  
• Get practical guidance on contracts, taxes, and negotiating payment as a freelance writer
  
• Leave with a realistic plan for building supplemental or full-time income from your writing

TESTIMONIALS:

"LOVED Alex Temblador's Finding Online Work Seminar. I am looking to increase my freelance writing work over the course of the next year or so and she provided very useful tips, including where to find work, when I'm ready. Would highly recommend this one for those looking."
— Danielle Alexander, review via the WritingWorkshops.com Facebook page

"Alex is positive, engaging, and encouraging. Terrific at listening to participants and pulling out/distilling/reinforcing salient points from their questions/comments."
— Former Student, Writer's League of Texas seminar

PAYMENT OPTIONS:

Tuition is $99 USD. You can pay for the course in full or use Shop Pay or Affirm to pay over time with equal Monthly Payments. Both options are available at checkout.

ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:

• Instructor: Alex Temblador
  
• Begins Wednesday, December 9, 2026
  
• Class will meet once via Zoom on Wednesday, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM ET
  
• Tuition is $99 USD.