What Makes an Editor Keep Reading? with Dawn Raffel
Date: 7/31
Time: 10 am-Noon PST
Cost:
Class Level: All
Most editors love finding new talent, but because they are bombarded with submissions, they're forced to make snap decisions; all too often, they'll stop reading before they've finished the first page. So how do you hook them? In this interactive class, we'll get granular about beginnings, and we'll also look at a few common mistakes that can sink you fast--and how to avoid them.
Your Instructor: Dawn Raffel is the author of five books, most recently The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies (Blue Rider Press/Penguin). The book was one of NPR’s great reads for 2018. Previous books include a memoir, a novel, and two-story collections. Her work has appeared in BOMB, NOON, Big Other, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions 2015, 2016, and 2021 (forthcoming), and many other journals and anthologies. As a longtime magazine editor, she helped launch O, The Oprah Magazine, where she served as executive articles editor for seven years; she was also the editor of The Literarian, the magazine of the Center for Fiction in New York. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, The Center for Fiction, and Summer Literary Seminars worldwide, and works as an independent developmental editor.
Date: 7/31
Time: 10 am-Noon PST
Cost:
Class Level: All
Most editors love finding new talent, but because they are bombarded with submissions, they're forced to make snap decisions; all too often, they'll stop reading before they've finished the first page. So how do you hook them? In this interactive class, we'll get granular about beginnings, and we'll also look at a few common mistakes that can sink you fast--and how to avoid them.
Your Instructor: Dawn Raffel is the author of five books, most recently The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies (Blue Rider Press/Penguin). The book was one of NPR’s great reads for 2018. Previous books include a memoir, a novel, and two-story collections. Her work has appeared in BOMB, NOON, Big Other, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions 2015, 2016, and 2021 (forthcoming), and many other journals and anthologies. As a longtime magazine editor, she helped launch O, The Oprah Magazine, where she served as executive articles editor for seven years; she was also the editor of The Literarian, the magazine of the Center for Fiction in New York. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, The Center for Fiction, and Summer Literary Seminars worldwide, and works as an independent developmental editor.
Date: 7/31
Time: 10 am-Noon PST
Cost:
Class Level: All
Most editors love finding new talent, but because they are bombarded with submissions, they're forced to make snap decisions; all too often, they'll stop reading before they've finished the first page. So how do you hook them? In this interactive class, we'll get granular about beginnings, and we'll also look at a few common mistakes that can sink you fast--and how to avoid them.
Your Instructor: Dawn Raffel is the author of five books, most recently The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies (Blue Rider Press/Penguin). The book was one of NPR’s great reads for 2018. Previous books include a memoir, a novel, and two-story collections. Her work has appeared in BOMB, NOON, Big Other, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions 2015, 2016, and 2021 (forthcoming), and many other journals and anthologies. As a longtime magazine editor, she helped launch O, The Oprah Magazine, where she served as executive articles editor for seven years; she was also the editor of The Literarian, the magazine of the Center for Fiction in New York. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, The Center for Fiction, and Summer Literary Seminars worldwide, and works as an independent developmental editor.