GET LITERARY AT NYC CONFERENCE: The “Literary Writers Conference” will be held Nov. 2-4 in New York City. It’s a conference geared for post-MFA writers of literature and its worthy goals are to teach writers “how to maneuver the marketplace and forge lasting relationships with editors, agents, and publishers.” Main sponsors are the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and the New School graduate writing program. Sessions include “The Fine Art of Giving a Reading,” “Unmasking the Writer/Editor Relationship,” “The Brass Tacks of Contracts,” “Booksellers on Marketing,” and many others. Presenters (and their presses/orgs/agencies) include Jill Bialosky (W.W. Norton), Nicole Dewey, Alison Rich, and Bill Thomas (Doubleday), Paula Dietz (The Hudson Review), Morgan Entrekin (Grove/Atlantic), Mindy Friddle, Jonathan Galassi and Lorin Stein (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Alex Glass (Trident Media), Beth Harrison (Spinning Jenny), Jonathan Lethem (Parnassus: Poetry in Review), Fiona McCrae (Graywolf), Sarah McNally (McNally Robinson), Sonny Mehta (Knopf), Rose Marie Morse (Morse Partners), Richard Nash (Soft Skull), Maud Newton (Maud Newton), Richard Parks (The Richard Parks Agency), Sara Nelson and Craig Teicher (Publishers Weekly), David Rakoff and Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), Nat Sobel and Judith Weber (Sobel Weber Associates), and Joanna Yas (Open City). FMI: CLMP, 212.741.9110.
- posted by Michael Shay @ 3:07 PM