Join writer and publisher Brooke Warner live and discover the five things she’s learned about putting out the message you most want to share in the new year.

Join New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King and discover the five things she’s learned about creating memorable characters who come to life for her readers.

Join multi-award winning journalist and author Janine di Giovanni and discover the five things she’s learned about understanding and surviving the moral injury individuals suffer when forced to witness an event that goes against their moral core.

Join the author of How to Be a Travel Writer, Lonely Planet’s best-selling guide to travel writing, and discover the five things that Don George has learned about what makes a great travel story — and how to maximize your chances for publishing success.

Join acclaimed music critic and opera insider Anne Midgette and discover the five things she’s learned that make it easy to appreciate and enjoy this essential art form.

Join award-winning documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland — and her special guest Penelope Tree— and discover what she’s learned about documenting and sharing the lives of some of the transforming figures in art, culture, and fashion.

Join acclaimed historian and writer Catherine Grace Katz and discover the five things she’s learned about how to uncover and share the stories that challenge our ideas of history.

Join acclaimed writers and interviewers Pico Iyer and Michael Shapiro and discover the five things they’ve learned from own their experience — and from the experience of the many creative figures they’ve met — about cultivating and deepening the creative flow.

Join New York Times bestselling author and Omega Institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser and discover the five things she’s learned about what happens when women trust their instincts, dignify their values, and speak their truths — and redefine what it means to be a hero.

Join hospice and palliative care specialist Dr. BJ Miller and discover the five things he’s learn learned anew about living and preparing for death after this year of shared loss, challenge, and renewal.

Join internationally-acclaimed writer Pico Iyer and discover the five things he’s learned about opening up space in our heads, and in our days.

Join Isabel Allende, one of the most widely read and acclaimed authors in the world, and discover the five things she’s learned about writing fiction, discovering your voice, and writing the work you were born to create.

Join Pulitzer-Prize winning art critic and New York magazine columnist Jerry Saltz and discover the five things he’s learned about how artists and art lovers become really good at art.

Join New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cara Black and discover the five things she’s learned about the ways that a strong sense of place anchors readers and draws them into the story.

Join multi-award winning journalist and author Janine di Giovanni and discover the five things she’s learned about writing — and appreciating — narrative non-fiction and memoir.

Join global-film community tastemakers Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate in this live, 90-minute online class and discover the five things they’ve learned about cinema’s rich history — and about the many ways to love the movies.

Join entrepreneur, professor, MacArthur Fellow, and President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts, Aaron Dworkin, as he shares the five things he’s learned about the life-changing power of diversity in the arts.

Join internationally-acclaimed writer Rabih Alameddine and discover the few things he’s learned about the elasticity of identity and imagination.

Join writer, speaker, and founder Nina Collins, as she shares the five things she’s learned about the richness and promise that shape the second half of women’s lives.

Join acclaimed author and editor Phillip Lopate — the celebrated central figure in the revival of the American essay — and discover the five things he’s learned about the powerful legacy and continuing pleasure of this engaging, versatile art form.

Join multi-award-winning photojournalist Nicole Tung and discover the five things she’s learned about photos’ unique power to inform, to connect, and to document people’s lives

Join New York Times bestselling writer Russell Shorto and discover the five things he’s learned about diving into your past and bringing the story you find there to life.

Join Academy-Award-winning writer and director Alexander Payne in conversation with Richard Peña and discover the five things he thinks he’s learned about writing, directing, and editing films — as well as the joys that he’s certain accompany a lifetime of loving movies.

Join Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press, and discover the five things they’ve learned about the essential mindsets that will help you get your book finished.

Join songwriter, singer, recording artist, and Grammy-winning record producer Joe Henry in this live, 90-minute class and discover the ways he’s found that the process and progress of our lives – like Song – knows more than we do.