September 2012

Phaedra Hise

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Phaedra Hise, a founding member of James River Writers, is the senior editor for COLLOQUY. Previously, she was a contributor to Fortune Small Business, a staff writer for Inc., and a contributing editor for Virginia Living. Her award-winning work has been anthologized and published in the Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Salon, Forbes, Popular Mechanics, and Smithsonian Air & Space. She has written five books, most recently The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter, published in 2011.More

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Michele J. Rolle

Michele J. Rolle is a mammography health care specialist in Richmond and has been compassionately committed for more than 25 years to educating and mentoring women in the value of breast health. Her article “The Power of Caring for Others” on domestic violence was recently published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch weekly feature “In her Shoes.”

In her debut memoir, Invisible Warrior, Michele provides a valuable, historical account of growing up as an African American in New York’s failed housing experiment from the early 1960s until the late 1970s. Melissa P. Gay, author of the blog This Common Reader, caught up with Michele on the eve of her book launch in September 2012. More

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Upcoming Twitter Chats with Conference Speakers

2012 Conference Twitter Chats

Can’t wait for James River Writers’ 10th annual conference? Join us for the next series of fun and fast-paced Twitter chats with five of the conference panelists.

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Jason Tesauro

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Jason Tesauro

Jason Tesauro co-authored with Phineas Mollod The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice; The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers; and The Modern Gentleman Second Edition. As contributor to The New York Times and Sommelier Journal, Jason is also an award-winning journalist and his lifestyle columns have appeared in Men’s Health, Maxim, The Sunday Paper in Atlanta, and Richmond Magazine. He’s also a guest expert on the TBS show Trends With Benefits.

For his testimonial, Jason waxes poetic about James River Writers and the value of literary arts in Richmond:

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