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Journeys to Print: Embracing & Cultivating Your Publishing Niche
Friday, March 25, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
What is the right press for your work? Hear five nonfiction authors share all we wish we’d known about the quest for agent, contract, and publication. We have written books published or soon-to-be-published by an undergraduate student-run press, an independent press, university presses, a literary imprint of Amazon Publishing, and one of the Big Five. We will discuss book proposals, book advances, focus vs. flexibility in content and genre, and the editing and marketing processes.
Participants
Jill Sisson Quinn has authored two essay collections: Sign Here if You Exist and Deranged. She has received a John Burroughs Essay Award and a Rona Jaffe Writers Award. Her work has appeared in Orion, Natural History, and has been reprinted in the Best American series.
Carrie Hagen is a writer, researcher, and editor with an eye for compelling historical nonfiction narratives. Passionate about connecting generations through stories, she lives in Philadelphia, where she contributes to Smithsonian.com and Mountain Home magazine.
Helena Rho, a former assistant professor of pediatrics, has practiced and taught at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh. Her memoir, American Seoul, is forthcoming from Little A in 2022.
Stephanie Gorton is the author of Citizen Reporters, a work of journalism history. She has written for the New Yorker online, Smithsonian, and the Paris Review, among others. Previously, she held editorial roles at Canongate Books, The Overlook Press, and Open Road.
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