Community as Network: Making Lasting & Valuable Connections as a Writer
Daniel Suarez, GrubStreet
For many writers, particularly those of us who identify as introverts, the idea of networking or simply speaking with strangers can feel intimidating or daunting. However, building a community of literary and publishing industry folks can be crucial if you’re considering to eventually publish a book. In this interactive session, GrubStreet’s Artistic Director and indie author Dariel Suarez will offer tips and strategies on how to approach networking spaces genuinely and effectively, how to establish deep connections that can grow your community, and how to speak about your own work in engaging and natural ways. An audience Q&A at the end of the session will aim to address your most pressing questions.
Speaker Bio
Dariel Suarez is the author of the novel The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press), finalist for the Rudolfo Anaya Fiction Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, and the story collection A Kind of Solitude (Willow Springs Books), winner of the Spokane Prize and the International Latino Book Award for Best Collection of Short Stories. Dariel was an inaugural City of Boston Artist Fellow, and his work has received the First Lady Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize and appeared in Best American Essays, The Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Literary Hub, among others. Dariel earned his MFA in Fiction at Boston University and currently resides in the Boston area, where he is Artistic Director at GrubStreet, the country’s largest creative writing center.