Gateless Academy Luminary Spotlight

About the Session

In this golden opportunity to meet with media favorite Amber Petty, you will be shown the keys to the kingdom of big media publication, including how to pitch to places like NPR, Time, O Magazine and more…

Every writer knows that publishers love “platform” and too many talented writers with great ideas have been turned away by agents and publishers because “your platform is just not what it needs to be for us to represent your work.”

Enter Amber Petty. 

Amber Petty is a pied piper among writers, leading you to big media spotlights that can create a much bigger audience for your writing to be seen in the world. 

In her courses and programs, Amber breaks through the myth that you have to be a journalist with a beat to get your work into wider arenas.

There’s an organization and a science to pitching and getting accepted and Amber has honed this down to a relatable, simple art that you can easily master. 

From sellable stories, to how to get into The New York Times, nothing is overwhelming when you use Amber’s expertise.

On Tuesday, December 10, we are going to sit down with Amber so she can talk us through short-form publication pitches, including the VERY best way to pitch so the publishers you want to take notice, absolutely will.

This is about building a byline that makes you proud.

Amber is a career necessity for writers, and we can’t WAIT to party with her for an hour on Zoom.

About Amber Petty

For thirteen years, Amber was a professional actor in New York and Los Angeles. And though she had big beautiful success, she grew tired of waiting for auditions and began freelance writing.

She started with pickle recipe roundups for Snooki’s blog and now writes for The New York Times, MTV, Thrillist, IFC, Bustle, Greatist, Healthline, Parade, and more.

In January 2021, Amber debuted her class, Freelance Writing for Creatives. Since then, her students have appeared in Business Insider, Huffington Post, Vox, Eater, Thrillist, Buzzfeed, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many more. Most of them had…no previous writing samples.

All of Amber’s writing work started after she turned thirty. If you’re not twenty-one and want to try writing (and getting paid for it), you’re not weird. It’s normal and you can begin something new at any age. Amber can help you do it, too.

She is SO excited about joining the Gateless Academy for her second annual luminary call on December 10 at 4:00 pm ET.

Amber is knowledgeable, approachable, and hilarious; somehow, she made finding a new side job sound fun AND attainable. Her ability to instruct without sounding condescending or preachy is definitely a special skill/super power! She has such good energy and you can tell that she truly wants to help. ~ Jess Janes

About Suzanne Kingsbury, Founder, Gateless Writing 

Suzanne Kingsbury is the founder of Gateless Writing, a worldwide literary arts organization based on the principles of ancient Zen and creative brain science. Gateless Retreats, the Gateless Academy, the Gateless Teacher Training and her personal mentorship have been catalysts for writers who have found themselves on bestseller lists, represented by New York’s most coveted literary agencies, acquired by the bastions of publishing and profiled by the largest media outlets in the world.

Suzanne was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in her mid-twenties to study Buddhism in Sri Lanka, where she found the link between meditation, creative writing and neuroplasticity. In her late twenties, Suzanne was invited to study novel writing with Frank Conroy, then the director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, who encouraged her to quit her job and commit her life to writing. She went on to win the Oxford Town Fiction Prize, and her first two novels were published by Scribner, reached bestseller status, were translated widely abroad and optioned for film.

Suzanne received her MFA in Creative Writing and the Literary Arts at Bennington College where she studied the confluence of ancient Zen and creative brain science and created Gateless Writing, a method and a movement that pushes through creative blocks to a landscape of unprecedented creative genius, and helps writers reach the zenith of their power on the page. Suzanne’s work has been profiled in The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone (European edition), People Magazine, O Magazine, Ms. Magazine and many more.

She lives and works on the coast of Connecticut and runs Gateless Teacher Trainings and Retreats for writers all over the world. She considers her home anywhere that Gateless writers live and write.