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Join author Courtney Maum (Before and After the Book Deal) in conversation with 51�ԹϺ��� MFA student Delight Ejiaka, for a conversation about revising full-length manuscripts.

Courtney Maum is the author of five books, including the groundbreaking publishing guide that Vanity Fair recently named one of the 10 best books for writers, Before and After the Book Deal and the memoir The Year of the Horses, chosen by The Today Show as the best read for mental health awareness. A writing coach, director of the writing workshop “Turning Points,” and educator, Courtney’s mission is to help people hold on to the joy of art-making in a culture obsessed with turning artists into brands. Passionate about literary citizenship, Courtney sits on the advisory councils of The Authors Guild and The Rumpus and runs a bestselling Substack about publishing that you can sign up for at where you’ll also find her online classes.

Delight Chinenye Ejiaka is writer and photographer whose works chronicle the African experience and history. Her fiction interrogates female hysteria, melodramatic women, and consciousness. She is curious about how the marketplace environment shapes people. Her short story, Market Craze, appears in Isele Magazine.

She was a finalist for the 2022 Frontier Global Poetry Prize, the Ray Ventre Memorial Creative Non-Fiction Prize, and the Wassnode Short Fiction Prize. Her works have appeared and are forthcoming in World Literature Today, Isele Magazine, Whale Road Review, Passages North, Michigan Quarterly Review, Desert Companion, and Vindagua.