Marketing and Promoting Your Book
Wednesday October 1, 6:30-8pm
Age: 18+ - Under 18 must attend with a registered adult

It's not just about completing a book and finding a publisher, now more than ever, writers must learn how to promote and market their books. Come ready to take notes and ask questions!

About the Facilitators:

Adriana E. Ramírez is a Mexican-Colombian writer, critic, and performance poet based in Pittsburgh. She won the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize in 2015 for her novella-length work of nonfiction, Dead Boys (Little A, 2016). Her reviews, essays, and poems have also appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ESPN’s The Undefeated, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica/PEN America, and Literary Hub among others. She occasionally reviews books for People Magazine. Once a nationally ranked slam poet, she founded the infamous Nasty Slam in Pittsburgh and continues to perform on stages around the country. She and novelist Angie Cruz founded Aster(ix) Journal, a literary journal giving voice to the censored and the marginalized. Her debut full-length work of nonfiction, The Violence, is forthcoming from Scribner.

Jesse Welch is a poet, father, and untalented juggler. He is the co-founder and host of the Nasty Slam, Pittsburgh’s head-to-head deathmatch slam. He has competed at the National Poetry Slam for Chicago, Seattle, and Pittsburgh, He has been performing his poetry since he was twelve years old and appears in the award-winning documentary Louder Than A Bomb. He is co-author with Adriana Ramirez of In the Shadow of the Mic: Three Decades of Slam Poetry in Pittsburgh (Bridge & Tunnel Books, 2020).

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