BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T132926 CREATED:20150702T013600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T175225Z UID:247940-1446663600-1446670800@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Word Works: Benjamin Percy on "Blending Genre" DESCRIPTION:Novelist Benjamin Percy will take your hand and show you the mysterious borderlands between literary writing and genre writing—what distinguishes them and what we can do to blend them to create a supergenre. \nAlong the way\, Percy will also discuss the mechanics of suspense and momentum—how to keep your reader engaged from beginning to end. \nAuthor of The House Girl Tara Conklin will conduct a Q&A after the talk. \n\nBenjamin Percy is the author of three novels\, most recently The Dead Lands\, a post apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga. He is also the author of Red Moon and The Wilding\, as well as two books of short stories. Percy’s honors honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Whiting Writers’ Award\, two Pushcart Prizes\, the Plimpton Prize\, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics. \n\nTara Conklin is a writer and lawyer whose first novel\, The House Girl\, was published in 2013 by William Morrow/Harper Collins and was a New York Times bestseller\, #1 IndieNext pick\, and Target book club pick\, as well as being translated into eight languages. Her second novel\, The Last Romantics\, is forthcoming in 2016 from William Morrow/Harper Collins.  Tara’s short fiction has been published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology and Pangea: Stories from Around the Globe. Before turning professionally to fiction\, Tara worked for an international human rights organization in New York and as a litigator in the London and New York offices of a corporate law firm.  She holds a JD from New York University School of Law\, a Master of Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University\, and a BA from Yale University. For more information\, visit her website. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/benjamin-percy-on-blending-genre/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States CATEGORIES:Mainstage END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR