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| Friday, March 10, 2023 | |
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1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. | |
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Rooms 427-429, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4 |
F197. Writers seeking feedback face a lot of options: Join a writers group? Enroll in a workshop? Attend a conference? Apply to MFA programs? This panel is for writers at any career stage who are curious about another option: working one-on-one with an independent editor. You’ll meet four veteran editors with diverse backgrounds in writing, lit mags, and book publishing. They’ll discuss the services editors provide, finding the right editor for your work, making the most of the relationship, and more. Download event outline and supplemental documents.Will Allison is an independent editor, a teacher, a contributing editor at One Story, and the author of two novels. He served as executive editor of STORY and editor at large of Zoetrope: All-Story. He has taught at Columbia University, Ohio State University, Butler University, and elsewhere. Twitter Username: WillAllison3 Website: www.willallison.com Jaimee Garbacik (she/they) is the author of Gender & Sexuality For Beginners and editor of the Ghosts of Seattle Past anthology. A developmental book editor with a literary agency background, Jaimee has edited for New York Times bestselling authors, as well as Caldecott Honor and Emmy Award recipients. Twitter Username: JaimeeG Website: https://www.footnoteeditorial.com/ Liz Van Hoose edits fiction and narrative nonfiction. Recent clients include Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois), Alice Randall (Black Bottom Saints), Fiona Davis (The Lions of Fifth Avenue) and The Authors Guild (Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering). Twitter Username: lizvanhoose Alexis Washam spent eighteen years as an editor at Penguin and Random House, most recently as the editorial director of Hogarth. In September, 2021, she joined Verto Literary Group as an executive editor, and edits fiction, narrative nonfiction and memoir on an independent per-project basis. |
