Dear ELN Radio Producer,
The North Carolina Writers' Network 2014 Spring Conference will be held Saturday, April 12, on the UNCG campus in Greensboro. Elon University professor and author Drew Perry will lead a workshop titled "Thieves & Liars." Perry also has a new novel out from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: Kids These Days. Would ELN Radio be interested in featuring Drew in an upcoming interview?
Kids These Days was named one of "This Winter's Best Bets" by Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon.com named the novel its "Best Book of the Month" for January 2014. Dave Barry, author of Insane City, called it, "Sweet, soulful, smart, and funny as hell. A great read."
Drew's workshop at Spring Conference will address something critical to the crafting of stories and novels: When and how to steal from the world around us (hint: early and often), and when to make things up (another hint: when the story demands it). He'll talk about how things like landscape, humor, oddity and stray detail are often the most important ways of entering into a piece of work--and keeping it alive in draft after draft after draft. He'll talk about how registrants can use their own strange obsessions most productively in their writing, so if they really love, say, tractors, or tigers, and they keep appearing on the page, he'll offer ways to make that feel less weird, and more like attendees are working.
Drew is also the author the novel This Is Just Exactly Like You, which was a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction and an Atlanta Journal Best of the Year pick for 2010. He teaches writing at Elon University and holds an MFA from the writing program at UNCG.
The North Carolina Writers' Network 2014 Spring Conference offers intensive workshops in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book marketing, and the "art of the pitch." Other features include faculty readings, on-site "lunch with an author," publisher exhibits, and an open mic for conference participants.
An interview with Drew would be a great fit for your listeners, tying a nationally renowned author to the local scene. Can I put you in touch?
Thanks so much for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Charles Fiore
Communications Director
North Carolina Writers' Network
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The North Carolina Writers' Network 2014 Spring Conference will be held Saturday, April 12, on the UNCG campus in Greensboro. Elon University professor and author Drew Perry will lead a workshop titled "Thieves & Liars." Perry also has a new novel out from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: Kids These Days. Would ELN Radio be interested in featuring Drew in an upcoming interview?
Kids These Days was named one of "This Winter's Best Bets" by Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon.com named the novel its "Best Book of the Month" for January 2014. Dave Barry, author of Insane City, called it, "Sweet, soulful, smart, and funny as hell. A great read."
Drew's workshop at Spring Conference will address something critical to the crafting of stories and novels: When and how to steal from the world around us (hint: early and often), and when to make things up (another hint: when the story demands it). He'll talk about how things like landscape, humor, oddity and stray detail are often the most important ways of entering into a piece of work--and keeping it alive in draft after draft after draft. He'll talk about how registrants can use their own strange obsessions most productively in their writing, so if they really love, say, tractors, or tigers, and they keep appearing on the page, he'll offer ways to make that feel less weird, and more like attendees are working.
Drew is also the author the novel This Is Just Exactly Like You, which was a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction and an Atlanta Journal Best of the Year pick for 2010. He teaches writing at Elon University and holds an MFA from the writing program at UNCG.
The North Carolina Writers' Network 2014 Spring Conference offers intensive workshops in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book marketing, and the "art of the pitch." Other features include faculty readings, on-site "lunch with an author," publisher exhibits, and an open mic for conference participants.
An interview with Drew would be a great fit for your listeners, tying a nationally renowned author to the local scene. Can I put you in touch?
Thanks so much for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Charles Fiore
Communications Director
North Carolina Writers' Network
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