Finding Your Writing Community (PubCon 2016)

ft. Jenny Zhang, Alice Sola Kim, Tony Tulathimutte, Jarry Lee

This episode is the third episode of our podcast series diving back into our 2016 Publishing Conference, which we held at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. The panel we’re sharing this week is titled “Finding Your Community”, featuring Jenny Zhang, Alice Sola Kim, Tony Tulathimutte,  and moderated by Jarry Lee.

Jenny Zhang is the author of Sour Heart, Dear Jenny We Are All Find, and recently published My Baby First Birthday-- Alice Sola Kim was a 2016 Whiting award winner and has published in Tinhouse, The Village Voice, and McSweeney’s among others. Tony Tulathimutte is the author of the novel Private Citizens, and runs a really great writing workshop called Crit, which we’ll link to in the episode notes. Jarry Lee is model and actor, and former deputy editor at Buzzfeed.

Keep in mind this audio is from 2016, but we think it still has lots of relevant and helpful advice for writers looking for a writing community.

Tony Tulathimutte's writing workshop in Brooklyn: https://crit.works/ 

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