Please join us for our ghoulishly-terrific October meeting as we continue through this event-filled year leading to our 100th Anniversary in 2022! A remarkable century of supporting local writers and promoting their development through education, recognition, and community. We couldn't do anything without our wonderful members and partners!
We invite you to join at 6:30 for a half-hour of reconnecting with your fellow writers. The meeting will start at 7:00 as our president calls us to order with a welcome and brief announcements. Liam Callanan, best-selling author and teacher, will highlight the evening talking about...well, talking - effective dialogue! Club business and member announcements will follow Ian's discussion.
Yes, the meeting is still being held via Zoom - : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83291815127?pwd=Qi9iVy8wMFB4TjlFYzFEL3FOMWYxZz09
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Liam Callanan
Tell it like it is: Crafting Effective Dialogue
Dialogue can be the hardest craft to master--no aspect of writing requires more artifice to sound natural on the page. And yet, nothing enlivens a work so much as well-crafted dialogue. What makes for effective dialogue, and when and how are speakers best deployed? How does dialogue create (or destabilize) a scene? We'll discuss answers to those questions along with one more: what happens when you bring fiction writers and poets into conversation about dialogue? Though both genres have rich dialogue traditions, there's been little cross-genre dialogue about this aspect of craft, and this talk hopes to address that.
Liam Callanan is a novelist, teacher and essayist. His novel, Paris by the Book, a national bestseller, was translated into multiple languages and won the 2019 Edna Ferber Prize. He’s also the 2017 winner of the Hunt Prize, and his first novel, The Cloud Atlas, was a finalist for an Edgar Award. Liam’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle, and he's recorded numerous essays for public radio. He's also taught for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and lives in Wisconsin with his wife and daughters.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
