Special,
One-Time Only Lecture!
How to Transmogrify that Casually Skimming Reader into a Loyal Fan
The mystery is solved. Here’s what your readers want: thirteen ways you, as writers, can prove yourselves to those you want to reach, gain and retain their attention, mind their enthusiasm, and earn their affection.
Peter Jacobi is professor emeritus and visiting Riley professor at Indiana University’s School of Journalism, and former professor and associate dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He serves as music columnist and critic for the Bloomington Herald-Times as well as columnist on writing techniques for the professional newsletter, Editors Only. Among his book credits are The Magazine Article: How to Think It, Plan It, Write It; Writing with Style: The News Story and the Feature, and The Messiah Book: The Life and Times of G. F. Handel’s Greatest Hit.
This special lecture is a gift from Hudson Valley Writers’ Center member Grace Buonanno, who has taken workshops at the Center with Herbert Hadad, Joan Potter, Rebecca McClanahan, Jean Fritz, and Marthe Jocelyn. In 2006, while attending her third Writers Workshop at Chautauqua, (sponsored by Highlights for Children Magazine) she “won” Peter Jacobi at the auction to raise funds for the Highlights Foundation. She says of Jacobi: “There are no words to describe him. You just have to come and hear him speak.”
Admission:
$5 (FREE to HVWC members)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.