Live Stream: Literary Writers and Digital Disruption

Tune in on Friday, May 2 at 1:30 pm EST: Live Stream: Literary Writers and Digital Disruption Live from The Muse and the Marketplace 2014, (Grub Street’s three-day event for aspiring writers), you can watch this year’s Town Hall Debate event, “What Every Literary Writer Needs To Know About the Digital Disruption.” Watch the event here at 1:30 pm EST on Friday, May 2.

About this event: “What Every Literary Writer Needs To Know About the Digital Disruption” While we cheer on great self-publishing genre writers, and revel in every author's new ability to take control of his or her own career, we ask ourselves this quite urgent question: what will become of the writer of literary fiction in the digital age? To help answer this question, Grub Street has gathered a group of industry figures who, along with the audience, will debate this question in a vigorous, unique town hall format moderated by publishing journalist and consultant Porter Anderson, former CNN anchor and senior producer. In the town hall format, the audience is as much a part of the debate as the presenters. Together, we will engage in a room-sized debate set "in the round," actively engaging audience members to share their ideas, questions, concerns, manifestos and challenges. Town Hall Debate participants: ·         Eve Bridburg, Grub Street ·         Jon Fine, Amazon ·         Christine Munroe, Kobo ·         Rachel Fershleiser, Tumblr ·         Steve Almond, author ·         Jane Friedman, Scratch Magazine ·         April Eberhardt, agent ·         Ben Samuel, Electric Lit ·         Matt Cavnar, Vook ·         Kathy Meis, Bublish