Allison K Williams
| Occupation | Writer and Editor |
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| Location | Twitter / Instagram @guerillamemoir |
| Introduction | Guerilla memoirist, essay writer and travel journalist, Allison K Williams has written for NPR, CBC, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Travelers' Tales. Allison has edited and coached writers to publishing deals with Penguin Random House, Knopf, Mantle, Spencer Hill, St. Martin's Press and Black Rose as well as supporting independent authors from blank page to book. She's guided essayists and humorists appearing in the New Yorker, Time, the Guardian, McSweeney’s, Refinery29, Brevity, Hippocampus, the Belladonna and TED Talks. As Social Media Editor for Brevity, she inspires thousands of writers with her weekly blogs on craft and the writing life. |
| Favorite books | Allison leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats in Italy, Dubai, Costa Rica and the USA. |