LEESBURG EVENTS
EVENTS Leesburg Town Hall
leesburg first fridays 7:30 p.m. Leesburg Town Hall (Lower Level Meeting Room) 25 W. Market Street Leesburg, VA 20176 $4 T WC members & residents of Leesburg $6 General admission More info at writer.org
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The Writer’s Center
February 7: Winter Warm-Up Exercises
April 4: Editor at LittleBrown: Laura Tisdel
It’s time to take advantage of the colder weather to warm up your pens and paper, or keyboard. We’ll have some fun and inspiring writing exercises to get you started on your next project or move you along in a current one. Come with your writing materials and an open mind!
Details to be announced.
March 7: Mastering the Mystery in 60 Minutes: Alan Orloff Alan Orloff is a member of Mystery Writers of America (MWA), International Thriller Writers, and The Writer’s Center. He has degrees in engineering and business and worked on nuclear submarines, for a market research company and for The Washington Post. Orloff is the author of several mystery novels including Deadly Routine and Diamonds for the Dead, for which he was an Agatha Award finalist.
May 2: Amin Ahmad Amin Ahmad has studied fiction at Grub Street, The New School, and New York University. His short stories have been published in Narrative, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, and New England Review. He is particularly interested in genre fiction. His first novel, The Caretaker, was published in 2013, and will be followed by Bollywood Taxi in 2014.
June 6: Literary Agent: Berta Treitl Berta Treitl is an attorney and literary agent. Before joining the Grosvenor Literary Agency, Treitl worked at a respected New York agency and in private legal practice. She is a member of the New York Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts.
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