So You Want to be a Writer Round Table Presented by Grub Street
09/28/2010 7:00 pm
Join
Porter Square Books and Grub Street for a round table discussion
featuring Ethan Gilsdorf, Michelle Hoover, and Jill McDonough, and
moderated by Chris Castellani, about the myths and realities of
publishing one’s first book.
Ethan
Gilsdorf is a journalist, poet, critic, editor, and teacher whose
writings have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles
Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, USA Today, Psychology
Today, and National Geographic Traveler. He has appeared at conventions
and on talk radio as a fantasy and escapism expert.
Michelle
Hoover teaches writing at Boston University and Grub Street and has
published fiction in Confrontation, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie
Schooner, and Best American New Voices, among others. She has been a
Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference scholar, the Philip Roth
Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell fellow, a
Pushcart Prize nominee, and the 2005 winner of the PEN/New England
Discovery Award for Fiction.
Jill
McDonough has taught incarcerated college students through Boston
University's Prison Education Program since 1999. Her poems have
appeared in The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, and Slate. The
recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Fine Arts Work Center, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for
Scholars and Writers, she is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at
Stanford University.
Chris
Castellani holds an MA in creative writing from Boston University, a BA
in English from Swarthmore College, and is ABD in English Literature at
Tufts. His first novel, A Kiss from Maddalena,
won the 2004 Massachusetts Book Award, was a Top Ten
BookSense pick, and has been published in five countries. His second
novel, The Saint of Lost Things was long-listed for the
IMPAC/Dublin award. Twice a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers'
Conference, Chris has taught fiction writing at Swarthmore College, the
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and is on the faculty of the MFA
Program at Warren Wilson. From 2002-2005, he was head instructor at Grub
Street.
