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About Dr. Joy Lough
Dr. Joy Lough is an entrepreneur, educator, author, scholar-practitioner, and strategic higher education leader with more than two decades of experience advancing academic innovation, workforce-aligned programs, entrepreneurship, and community-engaged initiatives. Her leadership spans program development, online and graduate education, curriculum design, faculty mentoring, and institutional partnerships focused on student success and expanded opportunity.
Currently serving as Associate Professor and Program Chair at Guilford Technical Community College, Dr. Lough has led program development and curriculum innovation, including the development of an Entrepreneurship degree and certificate program. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses across multiple universities and brings extensive expertise in online pedagogy, applied learning, and curriculum design.
Dr. Lough’s administrative experience includes serving as Interim Director of a Small Business Center and Director of a Women’s Business Center, where she oversaw operations, budgeting, partnerships, and entrepreneurial programming while exceeding federal performance metrics and securing grant funding. She is also the founder of Joy Lough Enterprises™, a consulting firm focused on leadership development, organizational strategy, entrepreneurship education, and writing.
A published author and speaker, Dr. Lough combines her expertise in education, entrepreneurship, leadership, and writing to help others turn ideas into meaningful work. Through her writing services and JLE Book Collective™, she supports aspiring and emerging authors as they develop, revise, and move their work toward publication.
Website: https://joyloughenterprises.com/jle-book-collective
About The Art of Self-Revision: Turn Your Draft into a Manuscript You’re Proud to Send
Revision is more than correcting grammar or fixing typos—it’s where a writer discovers what a manuscript is really trying to say. This focused, hands-on workshop introduces practical self-revision strategies writers can apply across genres, including novels, memoir, short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and more. Participants will use guided digital exercises to examine their writing from a fresh perspective and identify opportunities to strengthen clarity, structure, detail, voice, and reader experience.
Attendees are encouraged—but not required—to bring a laptop or tablet and a short 1–2 page excerpt from a current work in progress to use during the exercises.
This event is made possible by the NC Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the Alamance Arts Council.
