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Veterans Online: A Field Guide for Navigating the Digital Writing Sphere

124, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Saturday, March 26, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am

 

Iraq and Afghanistan military and veteran writers have enthusiastically embraced the internet to amplify their voices and build audiences through blogging, online publishing, remote workshopping, and social media promotion and as a bridge to traditional print publication. The members of the panel, all accomplished authors or online journal editors in the veteran-writing field, offer a range of perspectives regarding best online publishing practices, lessons learned, and future possibilities.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Veterans_Online_Event_Outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Peter Molin, the keeper of the blog Time Now: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Art, Film, and Literature, has written and presented often on war-writing and literature and has led and participated in numerous veterans-writing workshops. An Afghanistan vet, he teaches at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Teresa Fazio is a former Marine Corps officer and the author of the memoir Fidelis. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Lit Hub, and several anthologies, among other outlets. She has an MFA in nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Jennifer Orth-Veillon, PhD, is a writer and translator based in Lyon, France. Published in the New York TimesThe War HorseLunch TicketConsequence, and The Wrath-Bearing Tree, her anthology on WWI and today's veterans is forthcoming in 2022. Her first novel, Mice in the Shadows, is based on WWII.

Ron Capps the founder and director of the Veterans Writing Project, a 501(c)(3) that has served more than 3,500 veterans and family members in 24 states. He is the publisher of the literary journal O-Dark-Thirty. His memoir, Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years, was published in 2014.

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