February 26, 2014

Special December Meeting | Ellis Avery & Hillary Jordan Recap

Hillary Jordan, CU MFA, is the bestselling author of the Bellwether Prize-winning novel, Mudbound.   She and Professor Ellis Avery, of Columbia’s Writing Program, addressed the Fiction Foundry in December of 2013. 

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She joined the workshop session and critiqued each of the submissions and then stayed to give us a talk based on Nigel Watts’ “Eight Points of Plot.” She was fantastic! Ellis also stayed to sign copies of her novels, The Teahouse Fire, and The Last Nude.

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Hillary discussed the craft of writing and the trials and tribulations of getting published.

 

Thanks, Hillary and Ellis.