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AUGUST 2022 ONLINE WRITING SHOW | Voice, Cadence, & Rhythm
August 30, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Writers are often urged to get their voice on the page, but what constitutes voice, and how do you capture something that is so hard to nail down? Our panel of experts will share how your language, sentence structure, and even punctuation can add up to an on-page whole that is recognizable to your readers, no matter what you’re writing.
Speakers: Elle Cosimano, Agent Cherise Fisher, and Amber McBride
Moderator: Phil Hilliker
Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Eastern Time
Location: Online, in the comfort of your own home. Via the Zoom Platform
Cost: $12 Members | $17 Non-members | $5 Students
Registration closes at midnight August 29; your unique link to join the online Zoom program will be emailed to you the the morning of the Writing Show.
SPEAKERS
ELLE COSIMANO is a USA Today bestselling author, an International Thriller Award winner, a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and an Edgar Award nominee. Elle’s debut novel for adults, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, was a People magazine pick, was named one of New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2021, and has been optioned for TV by 20th Television Studios.
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CHERISE FISHER began her career in publishing more than 25 years ago. Over the course of her career as an acquiring editor at Simon & Schuster and Editor in Chief of Plume (an imprint of Penguin Random House), she has edited and published several national bestselling and award winning authors. As an agent, she is interested in working with novelists who have multiple compulsively readable yarns in their head (both historical and contemporary), memoirists who showcase the diversity of human experience, and non-fiction writers who seek to provoke, inspire, and educate.
AMBER MCBRIDE teaches English literature at the University of Virginia and has a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. Me (Moth) is her debut novel which was a finalist for the Morris Award and the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. She is the winner of the Coretta Scott King/ John Steptoe Award, McBride lives in Charlottesville, VA.
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.
James River Writers is partially supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts
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