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| Thursday, March 24, 2022 | |
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9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. | |
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119AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level |
T119. Finding a publisher for a collection of short stories continues to be a daunting task. Five prize-winning authors lead a discussion detailing their journeys to publishing their first books. They will talk about how they landed their first publications, how they developed and shaped their short story collections, how they began to look for publishers, and other related topics such as submitting fiction to journals and national contests, querying agents, and overcoming rejection. Download event outline and supplemental documents.Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, a Russian Armenian, has published fifty stories and won the 2013 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, the 2015 T. Williams scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the 2020 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize for her first collection, What Isn’t Remembered. Twitter Username: kgnewberry Matthew Lansburgh's collection of linked stories, Outside Is the Ocean, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the thirtieth Annual Lambda Literary Award and the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. He has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo, and MacDowell. Twitter Username: senorlansburgh Website: www.matthewlansburgh.com Caroline Kim is the author of a collection of short stories about the Korean diaspora, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories, which won the 2020 Drue Heinz Prize in Literature and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collections and the Story Prize. Twitter Username: carolinewriting Rachel Swearingen's How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, winner of the 2018 New American Press Prize, was a New York Times "New & Noteworthy" selection and one of Electric Lit's favorite collections for 2020. Her stories have appeared in the Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, and Agni. Twitter Username: rachelswearinge Website: www.rachelswearinge.com Jen Fawkes's debut book, Mannequin and Wife, was a 2020 Shirley Jackson Award Nominee, won two 2020 Foreword INDIES, and was named one of Largehearted Boy's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020. Her second book, Tales the Devil Told Me, won the 2020 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Twitter Username: fawkesontherun Website: jenfawkes.com |
| Friday, March 25, 2022 | |
10:35 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. | |
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Virtual |
F157. For many writers, publishing work in a top journal can change the trajectory of one’s career. This panel will take us behind the scenes at four of America’s best literary journals. Editors will tell us what they look for in submissions, challenges they face in working with writers and running their journals, how their publications have evolved over time, and advice they have for writers hoping to receive that most wonderful of all emails: “We loved your submission and would like to publish it.” Download event outline and supplemental documents.Matthew Lansburgh's collection of linked stories, Outside Is the Ocean, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the thirtieth Annual Lambda Literary Award and the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. He has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo, and MacDowell. Twitter Username: senorlansburgh Website: www.matthewlansburgh.com Carolyn Kuebler is the editor of New England Review. Before coming to NER as managing editor in 2004, she was an editor at Library Journal and founding editor of Rain Taxi. She has published her writing in various magazines, literary and otherwise. Twitter Username: NERweb Oscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZYVA. He is a former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as a past board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He is also a contributing editor to Literary Hub. Twitter Username: ovillalon Patrick Ryan is the author of The Dream Life of Astronauts and Send Me, as well as three novels for young adults. His fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories. He is the former associate editor of Granta and is the editor in chief of One Story. Twitter Username: patrickryannyc Julia Brown is an editor-at-large at AGNI and a former fiction editor at Gulf Coast. She is a writer, teacher, and doctoral student in the creative writing program at the University of Houston. Twitter Username: juliabrown |
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