I’m Speaking at Medium Day!
It’s true: All-American Ruins, the little multimedia travelog that could, is joining the ranks with a supreme group of writers at MEDIUM DAY 2025. An annual event, a roster of roughly 150 speakers, chosen from over 1,000 applicants, will be making room for you to discover fresh starts, blank pages, and new beginnings — and all you need to bring is an open mind (and maybe some paper and a pen or a pencil).
Medium Day is a free, live, online conference where MEDIUM brings its amazing community together to celebrate the power of writing through dozens of livestream sessions and activities throughout the day. Join me on Friday, Sept. 19 at 8:30 AM EST for my session, entitled “In Sonic Color: Adapting Your Writing For Podcasting.” Program description:
As a writer, you might’ve dreamt of building your audience by transforming your work into a podcast, but the idea feels rather daunting, intimidating, and maybe even downright impossible. “How am I supposed to produce a podcast if I’m not a sound engineer?” Using his critically-acclaimed multimedia travelog All-American Ruins as a template, join Ambie Award-winning podcaster Blake Pfeil as he guides you through the F-U-N metamorphic process of adapting your writing into compelling and colorful audio content with nothing more than a smartphone, a pen and paper (or word processor), and a little imagination.
Across the boards at Medium Day 2025, you can expect to learn how writers like me use Medium as a platform to share their work, how I found real-world opportunity through my work, and how I elevated my multidisciplinary expertise through my artistic practice. You’ll also discover how publications offer a home for your work through their supportive communities of passionate readers, writers, and editors — and you’ll hear from Medium Staff in a variety of behind-the-scenes sessions showcasing the platform in all its various capacities.
Register now to get updates on confirmed speakers, sessions, and activities. I can’t wait to see you there! mediumday.com
