Jennifer Weiner at RIT

Join RIT in conversation with Jennifer Weiner, The New York Times’ essayist and best-selling author, for a conversation on leveraging personal vulnerability to your writerly advantage.

Webinar | Tuesday, October 19th, 11:00-11:45 a.m.

Get the scoop on:
-Turning personal vulnerability into strength through writing
-Finding your voice and audience
-Confronting body-shaming culture
-Writing personally for public audiences 
-Narrowing your focus
-Sharpening your authority for your audience
-Making the private public through essay writing

Audience questions during the event are encouraged!

The event will be captioned in English. ASL interpreters provided upon request, subject to availability. 
If you need an interpreter, we appreciate you making your request two weeks prior to the event. To make a request please visit: www.myaccess.rit.edu.

Jennifer Weiner is the best-selling author of All Fall Down and In Her Shoes

A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Weiner’s books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list with over 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. Jennifer‘s latest novel, Big Summer, debuted in May 2020. Her upcoming novel That Summer will be released in May 2021.

In addition to the novel, Mrs. Everything, Jennifer is the author of the novels Good in Bed (2001); In Her Shoes (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004); Goodnight Nobody (2005); the short story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006); Certain Girls (2008); Best Friends Forever (2009); Fly Away Home (2010); Then Came You (2011); The Next Best Thing (2012); All Fall Down (2014), and Who Do You Love (2015). She is also the author of The Littlest Bigfoot—the first in a trilogy of middle-grade novels—and the nonfiction collection Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing.

A graduate of Princeton University and a contributor to the New York Times Opinion section, Weiner lives with her family in Philadelphia.

Advanced registration is required. The event is free and open to RIT students, alumni, faculty and staff, as well as the Rochester-area public.

Please note that this event will not be recorded, and personal recording of this event is strictly prohibited.

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