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Hollis Gillespie


Our back page columnist

 

When Hollis Met George

What happens next depends on how you define sex

I had sex with George Clooney. Not many people know this—or, I should say, not enough people know this—but not because I don’t broadcast it. I do. George Clooney, by the way, may disagree with me. But I have witnesses. Read More

On and Off the Grid

The risks of putting yourself out there

Lately I get excited by small things, and I don’t know if that’s good or bad. I do know it wasn’t always this way. I used to be a pretty hard sell when it came to excitement. When I got my college degree, I didn’t even want to attend the graduation ceremony. Read More

The Sun Also Sets

Seeing the beauty in front of you

My daughter doesn’t yet appreciate sunsets. Last year at this time, we were on a ship in the middle of the Pacific. Each night the equatorial sunsets looked as if the sky had erupted like a giant volcano and spewed Technicolor magma all over the horizon. Read More

Scene Stealers

I remember the weirdest things

My life keeps flashing before my eyes, which is funny because as far as I know, I’m not dying. The most I’ve done is turn fifty, which some may consider the same thing. But I would think I had a hold on things, if not for the flashing. Read More

This Will Explain Everything

Or maybe not

Despite admirable efforts in my youth, I never became a drug addict. Things kept interfering. Like college tuition. Read More

Potty Trained

The high cost of comfort

I can't figure out Italian toilets, and anytime you can’t figure out the toilets on vacation, it makes for a bad situation. I’m okay going in if I know what to expect. For example, in Mexico you can’t really expect much. Read More
 

More Hollis

Read her books
Writer's Digest "Breakout Author" Hollis Gillespie is an award-winning humor writer and NPR commentator. Her books include Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch (the film rights of which were bought by Paramount), Confessions of a Recovering Slut, and Trailer Trashed.
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Take her seminars
Hollis Gillespie's Shocking Real Life Writing Seminars offer a range of lessons for writers of all levels of experience.

February 24 and March 24
If you’ve been thinking about starting a blog or if you’ve already started one, this workshop will teach you how to sharpen its concept, write better posts, come up with magnetic headlines, generate more ideas, rank higher on Google, triple your traffic, and start making money.

April 20–21
The Atlanta Writers Retreat; A Book Writers Boot Camp Weekend
This is not your average writer’s retreat! This writing seminar is a lively, active, results-oriented symposium of creative and accomplished authors, attendees and answers to the questions that have been dogging you for years regarding how to go about getting a book deal. At the end of this book-writing retreat you will have a surmountable format for mapping out your book, the components you need to pitch a literary agent, including the agent contact information and the sample pages you need to send the agent. So, with that said, what’s stopping you?
 
Dates Vary
Here’s a secret, you don’t need to have a finished manuscript to get a book deal. All you need is an amazing idea and as little as 10 pages.