S224. CANCELLED: All About Anthologies

Status: Not Accepted

Room 209, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

This panel pulls back the curtain on the process of editing an anthology—from the big philosophical challenges like making your anthology as inclusive as possible and creating a cohesive whole while staying true to each contributor's voice; to the nuts and bolts of soliciting, editing, and paying contributors, managing contracts, and getting reviews for what's sometimes considered a "hard sell" in the industry. Editors of essay, poetry, and mixed-genre anthologies tell all.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Anthologies_accessibility_copy.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Lilly Dancyger is contributing editor, writing instructor, and columnist at Catapult; assistant books editor at Barrelhouse; and the editor of Burn It Down, an anthology of essays on women's anger.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the editor of the Go Home! anthology. She is the author of the novel Harmless Like You, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice.

Elissa Washuta (Cowlitz Indian Tribe) is the author of two books, My Body Is a Book of Rules and Starvation Mode, and coeditor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University.

celeste doaks, a poet and journalist, is the editor of Not Without Our Laughter and author of Cornrows and Cornfields. Doaks, a Pushcart prize nominee, received her MFA from NC State University. Currently, she is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Delaware.

Sari Botton is the essays editor for Longreads and edited of the award-winning anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NY and its New York Times-bestselling follow-up, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY.

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