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2024 AUGUST ONLINE WRITING SHOW | Writers (Not!) Behaving Badly

August 20, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

With social media making it easy to instantly share everyone’s very worst behavior, how do you avoid missteps for yourself and your writing career? A conference organizer, a literary agent, and an indie bookseller “spill the tea” on good intentions gone wrong and horrible intentions gone nuclear, and share best practices for playing well with others.

Speakers: Katharine Herndon, Sam Hiyate, and Andi Richardson

Moderator: Phil Hilliker

Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern Time

Location: ONLINE, via Zoom

Cost: $12 Members | $17 Non-members

Registration is required.

The Writing Show includes a social time from 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm. This portion of the evening is optional. If you choose to only attend the panel discussion, please sign in to Zoom by 6:25 pm to keep from interrupting the panel discussion once it begins at 6:30pm.

This program is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

 

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SPEAKERS

James River Writers’ Executive Director since 2013, Katharine Herndon has attended every one of JRW’s annual writing conferences, over half in a leadership role, and significantly more than a hundred Writing Shows. In addition, she’s been an anonymous audience member at a variety of other writing conferences and festivals, quietly noting which speakers she’d love to get on the JRW stage and which she’d . . . rather not. She’s been yelled at, ghosted, insulted, and received so very many passive aggressive emails. On the flip side, she’s met buckets of absolutely delightful writers she’d invite back in a second, and she has tips on how to be one and not the other.

 

Sam Hiyate worked at the literary magazines Blood & Aphorisms and The Quarterly in the 90s. He ran the edgy micropublisher, Gutter Press, from 1993 to 2002, as publisher. He launched the literary division of The Lavin Agency in 2003, where he built a list of clients and did his first deals.​ Sam’s projects for the agency have been in various categories, including memoir, literary and commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction and graphic novels. He’s looking for works of all categories with distinct and compelling voices. He loved to discover and help new writers prepare their works for the market, and to help them build a career with their talent. He is the host of the podcast Agent Provocateur.

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Andrea (Andi) Richardson left the corporate world for her dream job as an indie bookseller in 2018. She is the general manager and events coordinator for Fountain Bookstore and also works for the Southeastern Booksellers Association as Sales Coordinator. She is the most frequent author interviewer for Fountain events and often speaks at national and regional bookseller conferences on many topics.

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MODERATOR

 

Phillip Hilliker is a creatively restless writer and illustrator with credits spanning many fields and genres. Formerly JRW’s membership coordinator, he is currently a script writer for a video production and marketing firm in central Virginia.

 

 

 

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