“Successful Writing,” Panel of Editors
Christopher Howell, Robert McNamara, Lex Runciman, B. T Shaw, Michael Wiegers
Saturday April 19, Noon, brown bag lunch
Free

Bring your questions and join Copper Canyon editor-in-chief Michael Wiegers, Oregonian poetry editor B. T. Shaw, translator Robert McNamara, and Lex Runciman, former Arrowood Books editor, to talk about what editors do, what to expect and suspect in exchanges with editors, questions writers should and should not ask editors, technical requirements for the submission of manuscripts, and more. Emcee Christopher Howell is senior editor for Eastern Washington University Press.

“Getting Serious Books Published”
Rachel Toor & Ivar Nelson
Saturday April 19, 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Free

Sponsored by Eastern Washington University’s Teaching and Learning Center

This discussion by two publishing professionals will provide informed, in-depth information about negotiating the terrain of publishing serious books: what gets published, and how to approach the right publisher. Rachel Toor, former acquisition editor at Oxford University Press and Duke University Press, and Ivar Nelson, director of Eastern Washington University Press, will lead an informal conversation about their experiences in publishing and will invite questions from the audience.