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2016 Chicago Writers Conference has ended
Saturday, September 24 • 9:00am - 9:50am
You Don't Have to Choose: Publishing in Multiple Categories
How does one write both fiction and non-fiction at the same time? Hear from authors Kim Brooks (The Houseguest, Small Animals) and Ben Tanzer (Lost in Space, Orphans, Sex and Death), who write fiction and non-fiction, as they share some tricks of the trade.

Moderators
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Inés Bellina

Co-Producer & Co-Host, XX Will Travel
Ines Bellina is a writer, podcaster and performer. She is the co-producer and co-host of XX, Will Travel, a podcast for independent women travelers. Her love of travel started early, thanks to her father's career in foreign service, and has yet to disappear. She's lived in Bern... Read More →

Speakers
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Rachel E DeWoskin

Prof/Novelist, University of Chicago
Rachel DeWoskin’s fifth book, the novel Second Circus, will be published by Penguin in Spring, 2018. Her critically acclaimed novel, Blind, was published by Penguin in 2014 and is a Library Guild and an Illinois Reads selection. Her novel Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011), received the... Read More →
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Ben Tanzer

Strategist. Storyteller. Lecturer. Curator., This Blog Will Change Your Life.
Ben Tanzer is the author of the books Orphans, which won the 24th Annual Midwest Book Award in Fantasy/SciFi/Horror/Paranormal and a Bronze medal in the Science Fiction category at the 2015 IPPY Awards, Lost in Space, which received the 2015 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award in Prose... Read More →


Saturday September 24, 2016 9:00am - 9:50am CDT
Lake Room 525 S. State St.