Rita Banerjee will be presenting and leading the 2020 Muse & Marketplace session “Genre-Curious? Becoming a Successful Multi-Genre Writer Today” on Sunday, April 5 from 11:45 am – 12:45 pm. More information about the session follows below:
Genre Curious? Becoming a Successful Multi-Genre Writer Today
Sunday April 5, 2020 * 11:45am – 12:45pm
St. James Room – 4th Floor * Block 10, Lecture with Q&A
Muse & Marketplace 2020 Conference*
From Carmen Maria Machado to Ocean Vuong, Alexander Chee, and Ben Lerner, in today’s literary world, writers are increasingly jumping the genre tracks. Speculative fiction writers are producing memoirs, poets are producing novels, novelists are producing essay collections, and essayists are becoming poets. So why are so many authors today so genre-curious? By writing in more than one genre, do authors continue to tap into their creativity daily and avoid writer’s block? Moreover, what about the myth that successful, commercial writers only produce work in one genre? In this talk, we will discuss how authors can navigate the publishing world, learn new craft techniques and genre forms, negotiate with agents and editors, and produce the books they need to while building a career as highly successful multi-genre writers.
Writers can sign-up for the session while seats remain open here.
About the Author:
Rita Banerjee is the Director of the MFA in Writing & Publishing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and author of CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (C&R Press, 2018) and Echo in Four Beats (FLP, 2018). She is also the co-writer with David Shields of Burning Down the Louvre (2020), a documentary film about race, intimacy, and tribalism in the United States and in France.
* Please Note: That this event has been postponed due to health concerns.
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