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Do you love stories that feel real but probe the innermost depths the imagination? Learn how from these three award-winning fiction writers. They will share their secrets for creating stunning imagery and powerful stories that are a rich blend of magical realism and truth. You'll learn how these authors developed their unique literary styles and get advice on how to publish both short fiction, story collections, and novels.
Panelists: Tiphanie Yanique, Ben Loory, Amelia Gray
Thursday, September 25, 2014
8:00-10:30 PM
Cost: $5 (includes snacks and alcohol), $27.95 for a copy of Land of Love and Drowning
Location: WeWork, 1st Floor, 7083 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
About Tiphanie Yanique:
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the short story collection, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, published by Graywolf Press, and the novel Land of Love and Drowning, which will be published by Riverhead/Penguin on July 10th. Her writing has won the 2011 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Fiction, Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. She has been listed by the Boston Globe as one of the sixteen cultural figures to watch out for and by the National Book Foundation as one of the 5 Under 35. BookPage listed her as one of the 14 Women to watch out for in 2014. Her writing has been published in Best African American Fiction, The Wall Street Journal, American Short Fiction and other places. Tiphanie is from the Virgin Islands and is a professor in the MFA program at the New School in New York City.
About Ben Loory:
Ben Loory's fables and tales have appeared online and in print in journals of all shapes and sizes, including Gargoyle Magazine, Pank, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Antioch Review, The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, The Rattling Wall, Quick Fiction, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. They have also been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, and Indonesian. In 2010, his story "The TV" was featured in The New Yorker, and was named a Distinguished Story of the Year in The Best American Short Stories 2011. His stories "The Duck" and "The Man and the Moose" have appeared on NPR's This American Life, while "The Book" and "The Dodo" have been heard on Selected Shorts (with "The Dodo" being written on commission for the Selected Shorts Commissioning Project). "The Book" is also a staple at WordTheatre, where it has been performed by Marcia Gay Harden, among others. His book Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin, 2011) is now in its fifth printing. It was chosen as a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and the Starbucks Coffee Bookish Reading Club, and was named one of the 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year by the Hudson Booksellers retail chain. It also won the Nobbie Award for Best Book of the Year, given by the online arts & culture magazine TheNervousBreakdown.com. As a screenwriter, Ben Loory has worked for Jodie Foster, Alex Proyas (director of Dark City and The Crow), and Mark Johnson (Academy Award-winning producer of Rain Man). He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts from Harvard University and an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. He is currently working on a picture book for children, entitled "The Baseball Player and the Walrus", coming in 2015 from Dial Books for Young Readers.
About Amelia Gray:
Amelia Gray is the author of "AM/PM" (Featherproof Books) and "Museum of the Weird" (FC2), for which she won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Her first novel, "THREATS", (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was long listed for the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize. Her collection Gutshot (FSG) will arrive April 15, 2015. Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in Tin House, Poets & Writers, American Short Fiction, GOOD, Guernica, Annalemma, Sonora Review, VICE, McSweeney's, the LA Review of Books and DIAGRAM, among others. She received a BA from Arizona State University and an MFA from Texas State University. She has taught writing and composition at the University of Illinois, Bowling Green State University, Hamilton College, Austin Community College, and Roosevelt College, among others. She has served on the editorial board at Hayden's Ferry Review and Front Porch. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel.
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7083 Hollywood Blvd., 1st Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90028
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