How to Read for an Audience: A Writer's Guide

How to Read for an Audience is the first book designed to teach writers how to present...
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Author: James Navé
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How to Read for an Audience: A Writer's Guide by Navé, James

How to Read for an Audience: A Writer's Guide

CHF 25.09

How to Read for an Audience: A Writer's Guide

CHF 25.09
Author: James Navé
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How to Read for an Audience is the first book designed to teach writers how to present their work in public. Short yet packed with information, this indispensable guide advises you how to choose your material, how to prepare, and how to make your bookstore reading or open mic a powerful promotion of your work.

Nervous? Feeling unprepared or overwhelmed? Worry no more James Nav and Allegra Huston, a performance poet/creativity coach and a novelist/editor, share their decades of combined experience in an easy-to-read guide that will increase both your comfort level and your skill in reading for an audience. You might even come to enjoy it

"Bursting with outstanding insights and fresh ideas . . . should be required reading for all writers, as well as all creative writing teachers and students. Whether you're a newbie beginner or a well-seasoned pro, this book will make you a better reader and writer."
--Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist and former teacher at Iowa Writers Workshop

"Deft, clear and charming . . . This series promises to immediately fill a tremendous need in the lives of those of who still live and die by the book." --Jonathan Lethem, NYT bestselling novelist and Roy E. Disney '51 Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College

"James Nav 's help is practical, unique and gets to the psychological core. He is encouraging in that most helpful sense: he shows you how to find your courage." - Greg Palast, investigative journalist and NYT bestselling author



Author: James Navé, Allegra Huston
Publisher: Twice 5 Miles
Published: 10/05/2018
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9780985752828

About the Author
Huston, Allegra: - Allegra Huston is the author of Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found, the novel Say My Name, and "Forgiveness Through Writing," a course available at DailyOm, as well as the companion to this volume, How to Work with a Writer. After nine years as a publisher in London, she is now a freelance writer, editor, and teacher. Authors she has worked with include two Nobel Prize winners, three Booker Prize winners, Sir James Goldsmith, and Jane Goodall. She holds a First Class Honours degree in English Language and Literature from Hertford College, Oxford. Please visit allegrahuston.com.

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