An Evening with author Jeff VanderMeer
Shawn Marier
CONTACT: Leslie Howle NW MediaArts
EMAIL: eve...@nwmediaarts.com
web: nwmediaarts.comNW Media Arts and University Book Store present
An Evening with Author/Editor
Jeff VanderMeer: BOOKWORK FOR A BOOKLIFE
Monday, November 9th, 2009 · 7:00 p.m.
Fantastic Fiction Salon at Richard Hugo House Cabaret
$5 suggested donation
NW Media Arts and Seattle’s University Book Store invite you to join us each month as we present critically acclaimed writers from across the US whose work showcases the finest of speculative literature. Please join us for a talk and discussion with author Jeff VanderMeer at Richard Hugo House. Jeff will also teach a one day writing workshop at Hugo House on 11.25.09.
BOOKWORK FOR A BOOKLIFE: Award-winning writer and editor Jeff VanderMeer shares the inside, often outrageous, details of working on successful, complex book projects, along with sustainable career and creativity advice for this new media age. The world of publishing is changing. How should you change with it, and what will remain the same? Practical, irreverent, idealistic, and brash, VanderMeer will give a talk followed by a discussion with Fantastic Fiction series curator Leslie Howle and then take questions from the audience. VanderMeer is the author of Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer. "A frank, revealing, riveting manual not simply on how to be a better wordsmith, but on how to be a better human being." - Minister Faust
Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction has been published in over 20 countries. His books, including the bestselling City of Saints & Madmen, have made the year’s best lists of Publishers Weekly, LA Weekly, Amazon, and more. VanderMeer has won two World Fantasy Awards, an NEA-funded Florida Individual Writers’ Fellowship, and, most recently, the Le Cafard Cosmique Award in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland. He has also been a finalist, as writer or editor, for the Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, IHG Award, Philip K. Dick Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and many others. The author of over three hundred stories, his short fiction has appeared recently in Conjunctions, Black Clock, Tor.com, Songs of the Dying Earth (among several other original and year’s best anthologies,) and Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub. Collections include Secret Life and the forthcoming The Third Bear.
He reviews books for the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, and the Barnes & Noble Review, as well as being a regular columnist for the Omnivoracious book blog. Current projects include Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for Twenty-First Century Writers, the noir fantasy novel Finch, and the forthcoming definitive Steampunk Bible from Abrams Books. He teaches workshops and does guest lecturing all over the world.
Venue: Richard Hugo House ●1634 11th Avenue ● Seattle, WA 98122 ● (206) 322-7030