Program Details
Opening the Vein: Pouring Life into Writing
Wed. March 26th, 2008 4:00 PM
The Moseley Writers, Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren (Josias, Hold the Book), Deborah Prum (Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines), Fran Cannon Slayton, and Andy Straka (Record of Wrongs), discuss how real life experiences inform fiction and keep writing fresh in a marketing-saturated world.
Hosted by Moseley Writers.Moderator: Andy Straka
Location:
Central JMRL Library
201 E. Market Street
(434)979-7151
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Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren is a former print journalist. Her children's fiction has appeared in Highlights for Children, Ladybug, and Spider magazines. Her book, Josias Hold the Book, has received the 2007 Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Visit Website View Events |
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Deborah Prum's fiction has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Blue Ridge Anthology, Folio, and Lifeline. Her non-fiction has appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, Southern Living, and the Writers Handbook. Her novel in manuscript is The String Theory of Love. View Events |
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Fran Cannon Slayton's debut middle grade novel, How To Stop a Moving Train is forthcoming. A former child-sex-abuse prosecutor and legal publisher, she was a finalist in the 2005 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Work-in-Progress grant. Visit Website View Events |
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Andy Straka's latest novel is a stand alone suspense thriller called Record of Wrongs. The Charlottesville area resident is also the bestselling author of the Shamus Award-winning Frank Pavlicek private eyes series. |
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