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How to Handle Your Q & A at a Reading

Author gives advice for Q & A's

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Lev Raphael
Mar 23, 2023
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Whether you're doing an invited talk about your writing, a reading, or both, the period afterwards for audience members to ask you questions is as important as what came before—and maybe even more so.  They've heard your poems, essay, or fiction, but now they get to hear you and learn more about you both in terms of the information you share and how you share it.  Are you relaxed, engaging, smooth without seeming fake? 

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Author of 27 books from memoir to mystery + 100s of essays, short stories, book reviews, blogs. Lev taught creative writing at Michigan State University and Regents College in London and has been invited to teach at Leipzig University.
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