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Hooked: How to Capture Reader Interest From the Start

Sat, November 8 from 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST

Free

Join Michelle Kicherer for a fast-paced 45-minute pop-up class focused on capturing the reader’s interest. Michelle will discuss tips for engaging your reader quickly; time will be spent writing to prompts and sharing work.

This is a free pop-up offered at the Portland Book Festival.

Michelle Kicherer

Michelle Kicherer

Michelle Kicherer writes about books and music for the San Francisco Chronicle, Willamette Week and others. She is also a writing coach and former ghostwriter specializing in fiction and memoir. Michelle’s fiction has been published in The Master’s Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, 8142 Review and many others, and her novella Sexy Life, Hello is out in audiobook in Sept ‘24 and in print March ‘25 on Banana Pitch Press. Michelle believes there are no dumb questions in the classroom, only pretentious instructors.

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