FIND YOUR

PATH TO

PUBLISHING

Whether you’re ready to find your story, write your book, become a published author, or take your writing to the next level, Rise Writers will get you there. Together, we will help to create your path from emerging writer to established author - because we believe our stories have the power to disrupt the world.

Through private book coaching, virtual and in-person workshops, hybrid publishing services, a curated literary imprint, and an established writers community, Rise Writers offers authors the support they need to realize their potential and reach their creative goals.

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Christoper Rivas, author of Brown Enough

“Rise Writers helps and allows an author's highest voice to come through. If you are looking for a collaborator - someone brilliant and funny - Kristen is your person and Rise Writers is the place to be! They are book doulas in the highest form.”


— Christopher Rivas, author of Brown Enough (Row House Publishing, 2022)

Rise Retreats

Group workshops to help you tell your strongest story.

  • Story Magic

    Story Magic is a three-hour workshop to help writers start on the path to publishing, guiding them through the basics of publishing a book, finding their story, and building the confidence they need to begin their writing journey. In this one-day session, writers will have the opportunity to begin crafting their book idea (or shorty story or essay), receiving life feedback and support.

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  • Five Weeks to Book Proposal

    Five Weeks to Book Proposal offers a live workshop (and private sessions) to bring writers through the book proposal process, which is how most non-fiction is sold. By the end, writers will have a first draft of their proposal - but most importantly, they will know what book they want to write.

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  • Five Months to Memoir

    Five Months to Memoir is an intensive 24-week workshop with 12 live classes and 12 private sessions to help you write the first draft of your memoir. Filled with craft talks, real-time feedback, and the community every writer needs as they mine their deepest memories into diamonds.

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Rise

WRITERS

Rise Writers is a community of emerging and established writers who all believe that an author shouldn’t be judged based on the size of their following, but on the quality of their stories.

Founded by bestselling author and editor Kristen McGuiness, Rise Writers offers live and online workshops, private book management and writing services, and a space for writers to share and grow in their creative journey (with all its ups, downs, and let’s turn it around)!

Rise Coaching

Personal support to take you to published author.

  • Book Magic

    A three-hour private coaching session to take you from story to shelf, identifying your promise, approach, and platform, and culminating in a 15-page book pitch created by Rise Writers to guide you on your path or publishing.

  • The Proposal

    Rise Writers supports authors in creating bestselling book proposals for agents and publishers, supporting authors in whatever level of coaching, editorial, amd writing support they might need.

  • Full Book

    For authors working in the genres of fiction or memoir, Rise Writers will walk you through the full manuscript process, from page one. In addition, Rise Writers provides ghost- and co-writing services for authors in need of additional support.

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Rise
Books

Rise Books is a literary imprint dedicated to publishing radically inspired books from the Rise Writers community.

Rise Books publishes fiction, non-fiction, and other works of radical inspiration. With distribution from Simon & Schuster, we are committed to supporting emerging authors, not based on the size of their following but on the quality of their stories. We believe that books are powerful enough to build a platform, creating conversation and community, but also, activism campaigns to change the systems (and world) in which we live. Through our stories, we heal ourselves, but also, we free each other.

ASCEND

PUBLISHING

Ascend Publishing is a unique hybrid publisher offering national distribution with boutique service.

For select clients, Rise Writers will help you to write, publish, and market your full-length book through our hybrid imprint, Ascend Publishing. We are not your usual hybrid press as Ascend is distributed by Simon & Schuster, offering authors national (and international) distribution of their titles, along with professional production, editorial, design, and publicity and marketing services. We are here to give your book the integrity and strong positioning it deserves, rewarding your premium investment as an author.

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Jennifer Pastiloff, author of May You Remember

“Rise Writers led me through my book proposal as though they were writing their own, offering me the guidance and care I needed to create my best work. Writing a book can be one of the hardest things you can do, but Rise Writers makes the process gentle, fun, and loving.”


— Jennifer Pastiloff, author of May You Remember (Dutton, 2024)

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