Author Platforms 101: Promoting Your Prose

via Zoom
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In the competitive job market, employers look for people with experience. Literary agents and publishers are no different, and the experience they are looking for is called a “platform.” This …

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Voices For Ukraine

YouTube

This was an event share by poets who are still in or have connections to Ukraine. Hundreds attended. Theme Worlds together.

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Pitch and Prepare

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The next conversation on preparing your work for consideration with Cynthia Mitchell and Lucinda Clark. Cynthia is the founder of Lady Love Publishing, where she self publishes her work. Lucinda …

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Candiano Books presents: Particularly Vile and Deliciously Wicked, an exploration of writing, influences, Dangerous Liaisons, Cruel Intentions, and Where the Vile Things Are: A Study in Sex, Revenge, Deceit, and Affluenza

via Zoom
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Join Candiano Books author Marcus James in a lively, insightful, fun, and thought-provoking conversation with his longtime editor, Evanne Freeman-Casey as they discuss writing, the impact/importance of writing as vocation and integrity, telling honest and complex queer characters, the lasting legacy, importance, and influence of the late, Great Anne Rice and how her works saved …

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PRA Publishing Interviews

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Join PRA Publishing for some engaging conversations with literary professionals, including author Geza Tatrallyay, professor Dr. Giada Biasetti, and filmmaker Xavier Clark. Released daily at 10:00am EST between Tuesday, March 21st and Wednesday, March 23rd. Check them out on our Youtube Channel or on our sister organization's Instagram, @poetrymattersproject

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Welcome Spring with Poetry

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Join us on Instagram Live for poetry readings from two self-published poets. We'll be chatting about all things poetry, the journey of self-publishing, and our new books. We can't wait to see you there! Learn more about us here: linktr.ee/alexandra.mireanu linktr.ee/risvrosepoetry

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SMOL Keynote – Brian Evenson

Over zoom

Award-winning small press author Brian Evenson will be kicking off SMOL Fair with a keynote address and Q&A. He has written and translated dozens of books, most recently The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell: Stories (2021, Coffee House Press) and Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019, Coffee House Press), which won a Shirley …

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Small Press Publishing: Pains & Gains

A Rio Grande Valley International Festival Event Saturday, April 30 @ 12:00 p.m. Small Press Publishing: Pains & Gains A workshop for the unpublished poet, presented by Edward Vidaurre We will focus in this class on key aspects of editing, research, community, submitting, rejection, and staying focused. Edward Vidaurre is an award-winning poet with eight …

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