Substack newsletters, BookTok virality, algorithm-chasing on every platform — is this the democratization of media, a real opportunity to attract readers and publish work on your own terms, or just a new set of landlords collecting rent on our attention? This session digs into the real trade-offs of building an audience on today's platforms: reach versus ownership, authenticity versus performance, and what it actually costs (creatively and otherwise) to play the platform game. Come for a clear-eyed, exciting, and occasionally irreverent look at where this media landscape is taking us.
A writer and educator, Courtney Maum is the author of 6 books including the heralded Alan Opts Out about an advertising executive who tries to live off the land in his ritzy gated community in Connecticut after experiencing corporate burnout. Chosen by the New York Times as one o... Read More →
Mason Rowlee is a literary agent at DeFiore & Company. He previously worked as an assistant literary scout at Jenny La Plante, Inc., where he developed an eye for the type of books that appeal to international publishers and film production companies. He also interned at Farrar, Straus... Read More →
Kate Gale, author The Loneliest Girl, The Goldilocks Zone and the forthcoming, Little Soldiers from Zando is the publisher of Red Hen Press which she co-founded in 1994.
