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Through a Literary Lens: Craft Techniques to Get You Published in Mainstream Publications
Friday, March 10, 2023
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Many creative nonfiction writers grapple with making the jump from literary journals to mainstream publications, and underestimate their ability to bring their work to a broader audience. A panel of bestselling authors, journalists, columnists, instructors, memoirists, and editors will discuss using craft techniques such as objective correlative and metaphor to carry emotion, narrative voice, and scene-setting. Panelists offer advice: craft, pitching and editing tips that led to publication, book deals, and acclaim.
Participants
Estelle Erasmus (estelleserasmus.com) writes the “All About the Pitch” column for Writer’s Digest and is an adjunct writing professor at New York University. She has bylines in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon, Vox, and Brevity. Her book Writing That Gets Noticed is forthcoming.
William Dameron is an award-winning blogger, memoirist, and essayist. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Salon, The Huffington Post, The Saranac Review, and 5x5 Literary Journal. His debut memoir is The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out.
Vanessa Hua is the author of national bestsellers Forbidden City and A River of Stars, and Deceit and Other Possibilities, winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. A NEA Literature Fellow, she has received a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing.
Hattie Fletcher is the managing editor of creative nonfiction magazine and the editor of True Story magazine. She has been a coordinating editor for the Best Creative Nonfiction series and is coeditor, with Lee Gutkind, of True Stories, Well Told: from the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction.
Dawn Raffel
