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Lit Fest 2024
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Saturday, June 8 • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunchtime Business Panel: Debuts (Livestream)

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Hear several debut authors with recent first book publications talk about their journeys from page one to page done. What’s it like to finish and publish a debut work in the contemporary literary landscape? What do published authors wish they knew when starting out? What mysteries still remain going forward? Discussion will also take on recent trends in publishing, what makes a stand-out debut, and what writers can learn from debuts that have blown up.
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Elizabeth DeMeo

Agent
Elizabeth DeMeo is an Editor at Tin House, where she acquires and edits books of fiction and literary nonfiction. Books she's edited have won the Pacific Northwest Book Award and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award; been short- or longlisted for the LA Times Book Prize, Carol Shields Prize... Read More →
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Joel H. Morris

Panelist
Joel H. Morris is the author of All Our Yesterdays, his debut novel. He has worked most recently as an English teacher and, for the past twenty years, has taught language and literature. He is the recipient of a year-long Fulbright Research Scholarship for archival research in Germany... Read More →
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Gina DeMillo Wagner

Instructor
Gina DeMillo Wagner is the author of Forces of Nature: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Finding Home. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Memoir Magazine, Modern Loss, Self, Outside, CRAFT Literary, and other publications. She is a Yaddo fellow... Read More →
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Minda Honey

Instructor
Minda Honey’s (she/her) essays on politics and relationships have appeared in Harper’s Baazar, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Oxford American, Teen Vogue, and Longreads.Her work is featured in “Burn It Down: Women Writing About Ange... Read More →
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Christine Lai

Instructor
Christine is a novelist and essayist based in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a PhD in English literature from University College London in the U.K. Her debut novel, Landscapes, was published by Two Dollar Radio in September 2023, and was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness... Read More →

Saturday June 8, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
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  Fiction   Nonfiction/Memoir   Hybrid   Poetry   Publishing/Career