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Tasty Topic Talk , Jan. 23, 2024. The Birth (Business) of a Book
January 23 @ 11:45 am - 1:00 pm CST
$25
Tasty Topic Talk with the Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
Guest Speaker is Catherine Browder
She will walk us through her years of experience as a writer and when it comes down to publishing your work. Her latest book ” The Manning Girl” had a release & signing date of Nov 19th, 2023. You can pick up a book at this luncheon.
If you have thought of publishing your own work, here is a chance to find out about the process.
Catherine Browder is the author of several books of short fiction: Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas In Homage to Chekhov; Secret Lives (winner of a Missouri Writers Guild Best Book Award); The Clay That Breathes; The Heart, a feuillet; and Café Deux Mondes, an audiobook and E-Book from Ploughshares Solo (as a Kindle Single). Her award-winning stories have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, New Letters, Nimrod, Kansas Quarterly; New Stories from the Midwest 2016, Kansas City Noir, The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Ex-Patriates in Literary Japan, Exposures: Essay by Missouri Women Writers, and elsewhere. Her plays have been produced regionally and at the HotInk! New Play Festival in NYC. A recipient of fiction fellowships from the National Endowment for Arts and Missouri Arts Council, she has worked as a facilitator for the Memory Project at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. She taught creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and was for a time an advisory editor at New Letters magazine, where her book reviews appeared. Mostly she has supported “the writing habit” by teaching English as a second language overseas and in the USA for refugees, immigrants, and university students. She lives in Kansas City, MO, with her husband and their three-legged cat.
Schedule/Agenda
1 1:45 ARRIVE AT THE CHAMBER
1 2:00 INTRODUCTION – FILL YOUR PLATES
1 2:15 PROGRAM STARTS
1 2:45 QUESTIONS
1 :00 CONCLUSION / NETWORKING
Reserve your seat & plate TODAY!
CATERING RESTAURANT to be announced
FEE FOR LUNCH & PROGRAM $25
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