About this Event
College of Dope Ass Writers Mentorship Program
SESSIONS: Tuesdays @ Queen Sheba's Home
Award Winning Poet, CAU Professor & multi-Published Author Queen Sheba leads writers of all skill levels in an 8 week writing and business mentorship program.
Mentorship packages include but are not limited to:
- Become a published author in two months!
- Learn funding solutions for your projects
- Easy to use Promotions & Marketing techniques
- Weekly Writing Exercises & Critical Feedback
- Fire the editor! Why you need more than one set of eyes
- Who would want to publish me?! A list of publishers with your name on it!
- Special guest speakers
- Picture day! Give yourself a fresh look, photoshoot by a professional photographer
- EPKs & why do I need one?
- Performance feedback*
- Receive copies for all course materials included including Zoom call links!
- Private group chat
- Lifetime coaching*
- Graphics Master Class: Graphics for not-so-dummies
- How to create a Trust
- Why you should make a Living Will
BONUS MATERIAL: The leaders of the Spoken Word community, from all over the country, had two detailed and productive Zoom calls with the executives at The Recording Acedemy and after much discussion, we all agreed on introducing Spoken Word as its own category in 2022! And separate out "books on tape" to those that are reading their autobiographies (etc.)- which will still be a category if you want to submit under that genre.
We will be taking this session and walking poets and any recording artists, through the step-by-step process on:
- How to become and the benefits of becoming a Grammy Member
- How to find your chapter & get involved
- Does your recording qualify
- Meeting submission due dates
- How do you become nominated?
- Getting your music ready
- Digital footprint and streaming platforms
- Royalties and how to collect your millions
We need 100 Poets/Spoken Word artists to create and maintain our own category for The Recording Academy - will you be one of the first 100?! Register today and share this link with 10 poets - no matter their career level!
College of Dope Ass Writers was established, over three years ago, in May 2018 in Queen Sheba's living room and has matured into a coveted weekly writing meet-up and mentoring program for artists on every level. Pre-Pandemic the weekly writing workshop had exploded with consistent and eager participants each week.
Gold Package $25 x 8 - "I'm all in!" Tues 8P-11P Writing Workshop + the Art of Business 1:1 weekly 1 hour personal session w/Queen Sheba, includes course materials and all items listed above
Rose Gold Drop-In Package $20 x 8 - "I'm super busy but I want to make room for this incredible opportunity" includes course materials for the week you partipate and the applicable items listed below, that's $20 a class - cheaper than a yoga drop-in & two cups of coffee! Drop in when your schedule allows!
CODAW VET Package - ALL! CODAW VETS $15 x 8 will be grandfathered in at their original mentorship fees until you've graduated! Graduation = 4 (four) 8wk mentorship courses
Cash: upon arrival
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PayPal: [email protected]
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"Sheba's stories are honest, funny, poignant and necessary. Her poetic memoir is a celebration of survival, and demonstrates the power and capacity of a young woman's heart. Poems save lives, and I am thankful this particular writer is full of life, and sharing her world with the rest of us." -jessica care moore Author, CEO Publishing Company Moore Black Press
Queen Sheba has 20 years experience: writing for commissioned work including The United Way, Red Bull, and Too Dope to Bully. Her writing has been featured in several publications including Creative Loafing, Home Girls Make Some Noise which earned a NAACP nod and has been highlighted in journals, and panels for educators, including film, hip-hop and music festivals.
She has taught in several writing residencies including but not limited to University of Chicago Champagne Urbana, Amsterdam & Rotterdam Holland and has been awarded several grants for her work including the prestigious Virginia Fellowship winner for an individual artist.
"Anyone who complains that spoken-word poetry is boring and predictable hasn't heard Queen Sheba's Domino Affect ..." –Creative Loafing Magazine
"Queen Sheba is a dynamic performer...."- Nikki Giovanni
“Bethsheba A. Rem’s life is a wonderful example of how extreme adversity can create compelling art. Her story reads like a gripping novel, complete with abandonment, betrayal and ultimately, triumph.” - Rolling Out Magazine
"I've known Bethsheba Rem over a decade; her drive to share a gift was both evident and clear on day one. When a writer has the moxy and chops to bathe in what most consider the ether of discomfort; that which is yet, for a few of us, you know those of us who bask in exposing our innards for the greater good: Ms. Rem has long written well enough to simultaneously move souls and help minds wax toward true light." -Taalam Acey MBA Rutgers University Internationally Acclaimed Poet & Political Activist
"In Long Story Short From Foster Care to Fame," Bethsheba A. Rem is so unapologetically herself. She offers no buffers. No filters. No edits. She graces the page with her most raw, authentic, and uninhibited honesties, stories, and realities. She embraces a style of ancient epic poetry: extended in its storytelling - full, expansive, and vast. No moments are left unnoticed. No details are left untouched. Bethsheba has used her pen, her voice, and her words to usher us towards a glimpse of her soul. What a triumph - no morsel of her body silenced in her telling of her journey. If only we could all be so brave - no matter what our own truths." - Caroline Rothstein M.S. Graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
"A wryly witty and complex portrait of a post-black, hip-hop, pro-fem champion of off- beat outcaste everywhere; Her work is a hybrid: part-narrative, part spoken word on page. Bethsheba vacillates between glee and pain--love and anger--her contradiction is her strength. Her poems are bullets that pierce vessels. We are forever disarmed" -Khalilah Ali Ph.D author "The Dao of Womanist Hip-Hop"
REGISTRATION IS ALWAYS OPEN - SIGN UP TODAY!
Contact: @collegeofdopeasswriters [email protected] 404-697-9734
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Living Room Workshop, 446 Holderness Street Southwest, Atlanta, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 25.00