The Writing Show! The Elements of Edits: From Rough Draft to Published

Held on the last Thursday of every month from January through August, The Writing Show brings together published authors and other literary professionals to offer an insider’s look at the craft and business of writing.

Entertaining and interactive, The Writing Show has been described as:

• Inside the Actor’s Studio meets the New York Times bestseller list.
• The Tonight Show meets the art of writing.

It’s inspiring. It’s fun. And it’s only happening live in Richmond.

Description

The panelists will discuss:

• The editing process of a debut novel from rough draft to published book, and
• Editing techniques and how to avoid common mistakes.

Panelists

Aimee Agresti is the author of the young adult novel Illuminate (Harcourt), the first in her Gilded Wings Trilogy. The sequel, Infatuate, will be released in March. Before making the leap to fiction, she spent years chatting up celebs as an entertainment journalist, most recently as a staff writer at Us Weekly, where she also penned the magazine’s coffee table book Inside Hollywood. Her work has appeared in a number of publications including People, The Washington Post and The New York Observer. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and son.

Meg Medina has written for adults and children for over fifteen years, and her stories and poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines. Milagros: Girl from Away (Henry Holt) was her first novel for young readers. Meg is also the author of the picture book Tia Isa Wants a Car (Candlewick Press), which earned her the 2012 Ezra Jack Keats New Writers Award, and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind (Candlewick Press). Her forthcoming Young Adult novel, Finding Yaqui Delgado, is due in 2013, also from Candlewick Press.

Price:
$10 in advance, $12 at the door ($5 for students)

Have a question about the The Writing Show? E-mail writingshow@jamesriverwriters.org or give us a call at (804) 433-3790.