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- 2024 Wyoming Writers Conference
Here’s a brief update on another Front Range and Rocky Mountain regional writer’s conference that we've been spotlighting once a month this spring and summer. For April we're covering the 2024 Wyoming Writers Conference in Casper, WY, May 31 - June 2. Mira Landry and I recently talked with the director of WY Writers, Andrew Call, Supporting Member Erik Saulness, and Keynote Speaker for this year's conference, author Laura Pritchett.
More info at: https://wyowriters.org/2024-Conference
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20 min - 56: Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Whitney Pinion and Mira Landry join Gary McBride to talk about Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, which is Writers Who Read book number 56. Discussion slides for this novel and all novels discussed are available at WritersWhoRead.com. More information about Literary Forensics is available here and here.
In every episode we analyze and discuss one novel that has been published within the past 18-24 months. We do this because we are writers who read with intent–we read to study content and form and to uncover techniques that we can apply to our own writing.We read like writers, turning our favorite authors into our writing teachers.
We do this through Literary Forensics, a set of tools that allow us to look beyond the surface of plot points, down into the tapestry of themes, contexts, and symbols that hold the very intentions of the author.
We uncover why they wrote this novel and how they did it.
If you'd like to join our LIVE! meetings in person, find upcoming novel titles and event registration information here and be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter.
Writers Who Read has been meeting in Boulder, Colorado, since 2018, and we are affiliated with the Boulder Writers Alliance.
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53 min - Next Up: Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Gary, Whitney, and Mira analyze another recently-published novel on the next episode of Writers Who Read. Next up: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.
A best-selling novel and now a mini-series on AppleTV, Lessons in Chemistry follows the trials and tribulations of one Elizabeth Zott, a talented chemist in the 1950s--a woman trying to be taken seriously in a man's world. Luckily she owns the world's smartest dog, 6:30. Oh, and she helms a hit TV show, so there's that.
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3 min - 2024 Pikes Peak Writers ConferenceHere’s a brief update on Front Range and Rocky Mountain regional writer’s conferences, which we’ll be spotlighting once a month this spring and summer. First up, it’s the 2024 Pikes Peak Writers Conference in Colorado Springs, CO, April 26-28. Mira Landry and I recently talked with the director of the PPWC, Jenny Kate.
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8 min - 55: Trust - Hernan Diaz
Whitney Pinion and Mira Landry join Gary McBride to talk about Trust by Hernan Diaz, which is Writers Who Read book number 55. Discussion slides for this novel and all novels discussed are available at WritersWhoRead.com. More information about Literary Forensics is available here and here.
In every episode we analyze and discuss one novel that has been published within the past 18-24 months. We do this because we are writers who read with intent–we read to study content and form and to uncover techniques that we can apply to our own writing.We read like writers, turning our favorite authors into our writing teachers.
We do this through Literary Forensics, a set of tools that allow us to look beyond the surface of plot points, down into the tapestry of themes, contexts, and symbols that hold the very intentions of the author.
We uncover why they wrote this novel and how they did it.
If you'd like to join our LIVE! meetings in person, find upcoming novel titles and event registration information here and be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter.
Writers Who Read has been meeting in Boulder, Colorado, since 2018, and we are affiliated with the Boulder Writers Alliance.
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59 min - Next Up: Trust - Hernan Diaz
Gary, Whitney, and Mira analyze another recently-published novel on the next episode of Writers Who Read. Next up: Trust by Hernan Diaz.
"Every financier ought to be a polymath, because finance is the thread that runs through every aspect of life." Four books in one: a novel, two memoirs, and a diary, Diaz's 2023 Pulitzer Prize co-winner channels four fictional authors and boldly saves its most insightful writing for last. Trust operates on so many more levels than those existing between a husband and wife and the financial crash of 1929.
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2 min - 54: Avalon - Nell Zink
Whitney Pinion and Mira Landry join Gary McBride to talk about Avalon by Nell Zink, which is Writers Who Read book number 54. Discussion slides for this novel and all novels discussed are available at WritersWhoRead.com. More information about Literary Forensics is available here and here.
In every episode we analyze and discuss one novel that has been published within the past 18-24 months. We do this because we are writers who read with intent–we read to study content and form and to uncover techniques that we can apply to our own writing.We read like writers, turning our favorite authors into our writing teachers.
We do this through Literary Forensics, a set of tools that allow us to look beyond the surface of plot points, down into the tapestry of themes, contexts, and symbols that hold the very intentions of the author.
We uncover why they wrote this novel and how they did it.
If you'd like to join our LIVE! meetings in person, find upcoming novel titles and event registration information here and be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter.
Writers Who Read has been meeting in Boulder, Colorado, since 2018, and we are affiliated with the Boulder Writers Alliance.
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50 min - How We Do What We DoWe are writers who read today’s novels to uncover writing techniques that we can use in our own fiction. In every episode of Writers Who Read we will study one novel, transforming its author, temporarily, into our writing teacher. But to accomplish that magic, we have to read with intent. This is not a book club. It’s not literary criticism. This is Writers Who Read, and we invite you to join us in January 2024 for literary forensics, one novel at a time.
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3 min - Writers Who Read - the podcastWe are writers who read today’s novels to uncover writing techniques that we can use in our own fiction. In every episode of Writers Who Read we will study one novel, transforming its author, temporarily, into our writing teacher. But to accomplish that magic, we have to read with intent. This is not a book club. It’s not literary criticism. This is Writers Who Read, and we invite you to join us soon for literary forensics, one novel at a time.
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About Writers Who Read
From the publisher's feed
Gary Alan McBride founded the Boulder, Colorado-based Writers Who Read novel study group in May of 2018. Since then he and other local writers have been analyzing 10 novels per year within…
12-18 months of their publication. Gary is also the author of the WwR reference guide, Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer, available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook in bookstores and at online retailers worldwide. More information here: https://LiteraryForensicsBook.com.
WwR is focused 100% on today's fiction, mostly in advance of academic scholarship, so we live on the cutting edge of contemporary analysis. And that's how we like it. Our goal is to read like a writer and not wait for someone else to tell us what to think. That means we read with intent--to become better at noticing what the author is doing to manage our emotions and manipulate our point of view. And so it doesn't matter whether what we read is critically acclaimed or academically vetted, because we can learn the same lessons from bad writing as from highly polished prose. We use our own reactions to the text to discover where to dig, and we use Literary Forensics techniques to sift through the layers. Our goal is to uncover the author's intent and to identify the tools they used to create their story so we can use them in our own writing.
On our monthly podcast Gary is joined by Whitney Pinion, Mira Landry, and sometimes others guest readers. We discuss our own textual discoveries as well as insights gleaned from our group discussion, because as much as we can learn on our own, we can learn so much more about how to read and write when we listen to others' viewpoints.
And that's where you come in, dear listener. We invite you to join us each month, 10 months a year, for a new episode when we discuss the latest literary techniques and publishing trends so that you can try out these techniques for yourself and maybe add your voice to ours.
We are Writers Who Read.
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