PLEASE NOTE: The date of this meeting has been changed from January 9, 2025 to January 16, 2025 due inclement weather.

January 16, 2025 — An Author’s Perspective with Andrew Porter

Join us as fellow author, Andrew Porter, shares his experiences with traditional publishing. He has an abundance of information and strategies to share on how he generates ideas for fictional stories and how he overcomes writer’s block. He will take us through his process for writing, revising, and our favorite part – editing. Then, of course, we’ll dive into how Andrew got traditionally published and the circuitous path to publishing his first book.

ANDREW PORTER is the author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage/Penguin Random House) and the novels In Between Days (Knopf) and, most recently, The Imagined Life (Knopf, forthcoming 2025). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received a Pushcart Prize, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Narrative, The Southern Review, and on public radio’s Selected Shorts. Currently, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX.

Come early to enjoy food and drink with your fellow writers prior to the meeting:

Sea Island Shrimp House from 7:00 – 8:30 PM on Thursday, January 16, 2025

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