A Rough Guide to Publishing: An Agents and Editors Panel
Saturday, 26 Feb 2011 at 2:00 pm – Campanile Room, Memorial Union
This panel of agents and editors will provide a frank, instructive discussion, followed by a Q & A with the audience, about the publishing industry. The panel consists of three publishing insiders and one author: Jennifer Sahn, editor at Orion, an award-winning environmental magazine; Katherine Fausset, literary agent at Curtis Brown Ltd., one of the oldest and most prestigious agencies in the world; Patrick Thomas, editor at Milkweed Editions, a Minneapolis-based book publisher; and Debra Marquart, associate professor of English at Iowa State and author of several books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination.A reception to welcome the visiting writers and artists participating in the Seventh Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination will follow.
The Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination is an environmental literary festival featuring readings, poetry performances, panel discussions, documentary films and book signings. All events are free and open to the public - no registration required. For more information, click here.
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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Creative Writers’ Milieu
- Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- History
- LAS Miller Lecture Fund
- MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
- Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Stay for the entire event, including the brief question-and-answer session that follows the formal presentation. Most events run 75 minutes.
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- Stay for the entire lecture and the brief audience Q&A. If a student needs to leave early, he or she should sit near the back and exit discreetly.
- Do not bring food or uncovered drinks into the lecture.
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