Our friends The K-Pop Writers’ Workshop, lead by Pop Reviews Now’s Nicole, are kicking off their Fourth round workshop, and they’re looking for new Kpop loving bloggers to join in. After 3 successful workshops they’re making big changes to help writers get the best possible out of the workshop experience. Participating in the KWW will introduce you to a community of fellow Kpop bloggers with whom you will build lasting connections. At the end of the workshop, you will have the opportunity to have your workshopped piece featured on the a leading Kpop blog (like Asia 24/7) and/or a chance to work for them!!!

Find out all about The K-Pop Writers’ Workshop below:

The K-Pop Writers’ Workshop has had two major goals from the very beginning, goals which immediately set us apart from other projects. We help K-Entertainment writers improve their craft and continuously expand our community for the benefit of participants and alumni — most major editorial teams hold long-term, in-house training and workshops, but we’re different because we bring together a diverse group of writers for a short-term program. We provide a space for writers to meet their peers and get to know them further throughout their stay with us (which extends way past the workshop period!), including veteran writers and “big names” in K-Entertainment writing. We have built a community of writers and affiliations that we continuously tap into for the benefit of our past, present, and future participants. Beyond networking, the simplicity of the workshop system allows us to make modifications and introduce additions, major or minor, that will hopefully improve the quality of our program and the learning experience we provide.

Ultimately, what makes us different is our dynamism as a project — each workshop is different and we embrace that. So we know that change is inevitable in order to move forward, especially if we want to take full advantage of a program as flexible as ours. Hence, we are overhauling both our system and our team to provide you with an even better workshop experience. We’ve implemented changes in past workshops, but the Fourth K-Pop Writers’ Workshop will see some of the most major changes we have ever made such as:

1. Form-specific feedback. We get more and more participants with each workshop and we want to keep the feedback supplied at the highest standard — focused and thorough, but practical. In order to further improve the quality of feedback we will divide participants into three “paths” based on their pieces’ form — reviews, expository essays and personal essays/creative non-fiction — the most common forms published by major K-entertainment websites. These three paths will allow for more thorough feedback from peers who all deal with similar forms, while keeping as much diversity as possible through the different subject matters tackled by each form. Click here for a full explanation of our new system.
2. A more guided writing process. This workshop has always aimed to be a stepping stone for new writers and writers who want to re-start their careers, as well as a venue for currently active writers to expand their portfolios even further. In order to help achieve these goals even better, we have added to our basic structure and emphasized the importance of revisions. We now ask for strictly unpublished pieces because we want to be involved as early as possible in the writing process and prepare participants (and their pieces) for publication to the best of our abilities. The goal is to get published, because that’s how it is in the real world.
3. Workshopped pieces published immediately. Major K-entertainment websites theONESHOTS, Beyond Hallyu, Asia 24/7, and Dinoseoul are all looking for fresh, new content from our workshop pool. For the final stage of the workshop representatives from all our partner websites will look through all pieces and decide which they want to publish — they also may or may not ask for further revisions before publication. Each site also has the option to hire the authors of the pieces they publish.
4. An amazing new workshop team. For a more personal workshop experience and further mentorship, discussions within each of the three workshop paths will be facilitated by a veteran writer. Our team of facilitators includes second workshop participant Kay (of Radio Palava and Beyond Hallyu) for expository essays, second and third workshop participant Danice (of Inwardly Fangirling and The ONESHOTS) for personal essays/creative non-fiction, and former core group member Shweta (of A Splash of Inspiration) for reviews. They are some of the best and most prolific in their respective fields and they have all taken part in The K-Pop Writers’ Workshop in the past. Click here to get to know our new team better.

These all support a strengthening of our focus — preparing pieces for publication and equipping writers with skills for the real world outside the workshop. The K-Pop Writers’ Workshop has served as a stepping stone for countless writers — we’ve helped veterans bounce back by giving them a structured environment conducive to productivity and we’ve also kickstarted careers of talented new writers by providing them with knowledge and opportunities they would have never gotten elsewhere. And we hope to continue that by providing even more options and an even more flexible workshop experience.

Applications for the Fourth K-Pop Writers’ Workshop are currently open until JUNE 13TH. To apply, go to http://kpopwritersworkshop.blogspot.com/