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How to Handle Your Q & A at a Reading

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How to Handle Your Q & A at a Reading

Author gives advice for Q & A's

Lev Raphael
Mar 23, 2023
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Welcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world.


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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Lev Raphael
Lev Raphael has published 27 books in many genres & seen his work appear in 15 languages. Lev taught creative writing at Michigan State University and currently mentors, coaches, and edits writers at writewithoutborders.com.
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