Literary Conference

What does it take to write a book? Why do some projects fail and others succeed? This year’s conference, Passion and Persistence, explores the grit and hard work it takes to see a writing project through from the initial idea to the publication date. In the case of David Wright Falade’s, The Internationals, it was a 17-year project complete with rewrites and overhauls. Kai Carlson-Wei spent his youth riding the railroads, sending his poems in to contests, and waiting, and waiting. Rail represents years and years of revisions and hard choice. Case Day Rislov saw her vision in becoming a award-winning children’s book author and found her way to writing and publishing eight books. All of these authors faced headwinds and somehow overcame the odds.

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