6-9 PM
Join us for an evening discussion on writing and publishing short stories. Our moderator, Eli Horowitz, the managing editor of McSweeney’s, will lead an expert panel in a conversation about the craft of writing shorter fiction.
In addition to reflecting on the writing process, the panelists will address issues related to the publishing aspects of writing, such as contacting agents and working with publishing houses. Each panelist comes to 826 with a unique experience and approach to the craft of short stories, and their combined expertise should prove an invaluable resource for aspiring and seasoned writers alike. No details will be spared, all pertinent secrets will be revealed.
About the panelists:
ZZ Packer is the author of the short story collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, a PEN/Faulkner finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories 2000 and 2004 and have been read on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She has won a Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Daniel Alarcón’s fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005. His non-fiction has appeared in Salon and Eyeshot, and he is Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etique Negra. A former Fulbright Scholar to Peru and the recipient of a Whiting Award for 2004, he lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College. His first book, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award.
Kaui Hart Hemmings is the author of House of Thieves, a collection of stories. Her work appears in The Sun, Zoetrope, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American New Voices, and one of her latest stories is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Times. She has guest edited the next issue of StoryQuarterly and her first novel will be published by Random House in June 2007.
Alejandro Murguía, author of This War Called Love, was born in California and raised in Mexico. He is a two-time winner of the American Book Award, has been nominated for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and is a founding member and the first director of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. He currently serves as Associate Professor in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.
Jandy Nelson is a Senior Literary Agent with Manus and Associates Literary Agency, a national firm representing independent authors for over twenty years from offices in both New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Jandy has a varied list including literary fiction, multicultural fiction, and women's fiction, as well as narrative nonfiction, innovative self-help, memoirs, and health.