Amanda McCormick came to Paragraph on Wednesday, July 11th to talk about how to generate publicity via a strong web presence. Her blog can be found here. This workshop was an extension of our monthly roundtables hosted in the Paragraph cafe area, free and open exclusively to members.
Discussing Twitter and publishing
Paragraph members Daniel Levinson, Aaron Poochigian & Betty Shamieh shared their work on Friday night at our monthly reading at KGB. Thanks to Kirsten Major for the photos.
Betty Shamieh, Aaron Poochigian & Daniel Levinson
Literary agents Jennifer Carlson of Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency and Peter Steinberg of The Steinberg Agency came to Paragraph on Wednesday, June 13th to discuss query letters and the publishing world at our monthly agent roundtable in the Paragraph cafe area. Thanks to Kirsten Major for photographs.
Paragraph cafe
Paragraph members Sophie Jaff, Dennis Leroy Kangalee & Amanda Lichtenberg shared their work on Friday night at our monthly reading at KGB. Thanks to Kirsten Major and Lee Bob Black for the photos.
Members Reading
Bonnie Friedman, author of Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life, and the memoir The Thief of Happiness, came to Paragraph last night to discuss the idea of envy in a writer’s life, as well as how to cultivate healthy writing habits. Each month, Paragraph hosts a roundtable that is free to its members. Thanks to Kirsten Major for photos.
Roundtable with Bonnie Friedman
Paragraph Team Lila Cecil, Alexandra Enders and Sara Farrington shared their work on Friday night at our monthly reading at KGB. Joy Parisi hosted and Kirsten Major took the photographs.
Alexandra Enders, Joy Parisi, Sara Farrington, & Lila Cecil
Editors and writers Yona Zeldis McDonough of Lilith Magazine and Dawn Raffel of Reader’s Digest and The Literarian came to Paragraph last Wednesday to discuss online and print magazine writing at our monthly roundtable in the Paragraph cafe area. Thanks to photographer Kirsten Major.
Yona Zeldis McDonough and Dawn Raffel
Paragraph members Tamar Adler, Amy Axler and Anna Raverat shared their work on Friday night at our monthly reading at KGB. Thanks to Kirsten Major for the photos.
Amy Axler, Tamar Adler and Anna Raverat
Manager-producer Dan Halsted of Manage-ment and theater agent Antje Oegel of AO International came to Paragraph last Thursday to discuss writing for film, tv and stage at our monthly agent roundtable in the Paragraph cafe area. Thanks to photographer Kirsten Major.
The Roundtable