First Draft: A Dialogue On Writing W/ Shelley Read
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
W/ Shelley Read
March 11 @ 6:30 pm – 11:59 pm
FREE W/ RSVP
SEATED SHOW / ALL AGES
ABOUT FIRST DRAFT: A DIALOGUE ON WRITING
Genre: PANEL
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a literary podcast produced and hosted by Mitzi Rapkin. Each week the podcast features an in-depth interview with a fiction, non-fiction, essay, or poetry writer. The show is equal parts investigation into the craft of writing and conversation about the topics of an author’s work.
ABOUT GO AS A RIVER
Shelley Read’s international bestselling debut novel, Go As A River, is translated into thirty-four languages and has been optioned for film by Mazur Kaplan Productions. Go As A River is the winner of the High Plains International Book Award for Fiction and the Reading the West Book Award for Best Debut, as well as a finalist for the Madame Figaro Du Grand Prix De L’Héroïne (France) and Storytel Award Best Novel (Sweden). A Sunday Times, American Booksellers Association, MPIBA, and Der Spiegel bestseller, Go As A River is also an Amazon Editor’s Pick Best Debut, Goodreads Choice Award finalist, Colorado Public Radio Books We Love selection, Indigo Best Book of the Year (Canada), and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick (UK), among other national and international accolades. Go As A River has been highlighted in the New York Times Book Review, Sunday Times, Scientific American, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews (starred review), Denver Post, London Independent, Alta Magazine, 5280, Zibby Mag, and many more publications around the world.
ABOUT SHELLEY READ
Shelley was an award-winning Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades where she taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and honors. She holds degrees in writing and literary studies from the University of Denver and Temple University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing and was a Dean’s Fellow in the University of Denver’s PhD program in English. She is a regular contributor to Crested Butte Magazine and Gunnison Valley Journal. Shelley is a mom, mountaineer, world traveler, and fifth-generation Coloradan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of Colorado’s Western Slope.
Learn more about Shelley Read and Go As A River: WEBSITE
ABOUT MITZI RAPKIN
Mitzi Rapkin is the founder, host and producer of the literary podcast, “First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing,” which features a new author interview each week. She has interviewed more than 500 contemporary writers of fiction, nonfiction, essays, and poetry over the past eleven years. Her conversations explore essential questions about what it means to be human alongside the craft of writing and the themes of the writers’ works. Rapkin is also a journalist, fiction writer, certified integral coach, facilitator, and fiction-writing instructor.
Learn more about / Listen to First Draft: WEBSITE
DETAILS
- EVENT @ 6:30 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm
- SEATED SHOW / ALL AGES
- Limit of 4 tickets per purchaser
Presented By: The Arts Campus At Willits