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Tin House Summer Workshop: Getting Past the Gatekeepers: How to keep writing in an industry that excludes us. Kaitlyn Greenidge and Mira Jacob in Conversation

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

From the first feedback to the final copyedits, navigating literary publishing can be especially harrowing when your story doesn’t fit the industry’s narrow bookshelf. Kaitlyn Greenidge and Mira Jacob discuss their combined 30+ years of experience, as well as the strategies they’ve employed to stay sane and keep writing. YouTube

Free

Live Online Lecture and Q & A with Mira Jacob

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her book Good Talk is a graphic memoir that describes complex conversations with her young son about "race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love." It was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, Time, Kirkus Reviews, and others. This event will be free and open to the public. For the link and password to the event, write to anelson@clark.edu.

Free