Writing that can be consumed in one sitting is perfect for our fast-paced lives. What’s the best way to put together a collection of your own short works? How do you get your writing into an anthology? And what if you’d like to put out a call for submissions and edit an anthology of your own? Our experts will give you the ins and outs of creative compilations.
Speakers: Sasha Banks, Tyrese Coleman, Eric Smith
Moderator: Ran Walker
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Eastern Time
Location: Online, in the comfort of your own home. Via the Zoom Platform
Price: $12 Members | $15 Non-members | $5 Students
Registration closes on April 27; your unique link to join the online Zoom program will be emailed to you the the morning of the Writing Show.
Writing Show Memberships are Available. Details HERE.
SPEAKERS
Sasha Banks
SASHA BANKS is a Pushcart nominated poet whose work has been published or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and PBS Newshour. She received her MFA at Pratt Institute. She is a 2019 Rhode Island Writers’ Colony Fellow and the creator of “Poets for Ferguson.” She is the author of america, MINE.
Website: americamine.bigcartel.com Instagram: @king__sasha
**Sasha Banks is no longer available to join us for this panel discussion. We hope she will be able to join us in the near future for another JRW program.
Tyrese Coleman
TYRESE L. COLEMAN is the author of the collection, How to Sit, a 2019 Pen Open Book Award finalist published with Mason Jar Press in 2018. Writer, wife, mother, attorney, and writing instructor, she is a contributing editor at Split Lip Magazine. Her essays and stories have appeared in several publications, including Black Warrior Review, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, and The Kenyon Review, and noted in Best American Essays and The Pushcart Anthology. She is an alumna of the Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.
Website: tyresecoleman.com Twitter: @tylachelleco
Eric Smith
ERIC SMITH is an author and literary agent from Philadelphia. An agent with P.S. Literary, he\’s worked on award-winning and New York Times bestselling books. His latest novel in his author life, Don\’t Read the Comments, published with Inkyard Press in January 2020.
Website: ericsmithrocks.com Twitter: @ericsmithrocks
MODERATOR
Ran Walker
RAN WALKER is the author of over twenty books. He is the winner of the 2019 Indie Author of the Year and 2019 BCALA Fiction Ebook Awards. He teaches creative writing at Hampton University and lives with his wife and daughter in Virginia. Ran also serves on the Board of James River Writers.
Website: www.ranwalker.com Twitter: @ranwalker