Events for Thursday, July 30, 2020
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La Feria del Libro de Miami del MDC convoca al Premio Paz de Poesía 2020
¡Atención, poetas! La prestigiosa Feria del Libro de Miami (MBF) del Miami Dade College (MDC), en colaboración con The National Poetry Series, anuncia el regreso del Premio Paz de Poesía. El plazo de presentación de solicitudes para la edición de este año es del 1 de junio al 31 de julio. Miami Book Fair otorga cada dos años (en años ...
Find out more »Manuscript Consultations with Dana Murphy
Various times, as appointed (Mon. – Fri., July 27 – 31,). All appointment times in EST. Consultations are limited to 30 people. Once you have registered online, please email your 1-page synopsis and 10-page manuscript to Marci Cancio-Bello at mcanciob@mdc.edu by midnight on Sunday, June 29, 2020. Genres Accepted: Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Adult Narrative Non-Fiction (No prescriptive, art, cookbooks etc.) Manuscripts ...
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Reading & Craft Talk: Lilliam Rivera: Worldbuilding in Writing for Young People
Thursday, July 30, 6 – 7 p.m. EST This craft talk will focus on techniques in worldbuilding in young adult fiction, whether writing a contemporary story set in a small town or an intergalactic story set in Mars. How do you create a world that rings true without falling in to the common missteps of info-dumping and adding confusion to ...
Find out more »7:00 pm
A Virtual Evening with Julian E. Zelizer and Samuel G. Freedman
Books & Books presents “An Evening with Julian E. Zelizer” In conversation with Samuel G. Freedman discussing Burning Down the House. The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is ...
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