Programs

Signature Events & Programs

• Annual Conference
• The Writing Show, monthly panel discussion on the art and business of writing
• Virginia Arts & Letters Live featuring Virginia actors reading the work of Virginia authors
• Best Unpublished Novel Contest, presented in partnership with Richmond Magazine
• Get Your Word On e-newsletter
• Literary Events Calendar
• The Student Writing Contest
• Writer's Wednesdays, a casual meet and greet for writers in every genre on the second Wednesday of every month, 5:30-7:30 PM at Cafe Gutenberg, 1700 East Main St.
• Poetry Contest
• Interviews with Authors

Past featured guests:

David Baldacci (Divine Justice, The Whole Truth, and many others)
Adriana Trigiani (The Big Stone Gap trilogy, Lucia, Lucia, and others)
Diane Mott Davidson (Fatally Flaky and other Goldy Schulz mysteries)
Kirk Ellis (screenwriter, HBO’s John Adams mini-series)
Claudia Emerson (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Late Wife)
Sheri Reynolds (Rapture of Canaan, and others)
Carl Kasell (host of NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me)
Shannon Ravenel (editor, Algonquin Press)
Colin Fox (editor, Simon & Schuster)
Lori Perkins (agent, The Lori Perkins Agency)
Kate Jacobs (The Friday Night Knitting Club)
Andrea Sisco (armchairinterviews.com)
Eric Van Lustbader (the Jason Bourne series)
Sharyn McCrumb (St. Dale, She Walks These Hills, and
others)
Kyle Mills (Darkness Falls, and other thrillers)
Carolyn Parkhurst (Lost and Found, The Dogs of Babel)
Michael Stearns (editor, HarperCollins)
Taylor Antrim (The Headmaster Ritual)
Jeannette Walls (The Glass Castle)
Hampton Sides (Blood and Thunder, Ghost Soldiers)
Alex Kershaw (Bedford Boys)
Dennis McFarland (The Music Room)
Chuck Adams (executive editor, Algonquin Press)
Edward P. Jones (The Known World)
Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down, Guests of the Ayatollah)
Pat Carroll (actor)
Morgan Entrekin (president and publisher, Grove/Atlantic)
Ron Hogan (Galleycat)
Tony Horwitz (Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes)
Owen Laster (agent, William Morris)
Nick McDonnell (Twelve)
Rosalind Miles (I, Elizabeth)
Jennifer Niesslein (Brain, Child co-founder)
Richard Price (Clockers)
Chris Regan (writer for The Daily Show)
Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)
Stephanie Wilkinson (Brain, Child co-founder)