**Ethnicity, Publishing & You: A Roundtable Discussion**
Oct. 23, 2008
8pm in 413 Dodge Hall
Every Fall semester OW invites a panel of agents and editors from America’s top publishing houses and literary agencies for a frank, no-holds-barred discussion of what writers of color must know about today’s publishing industry.

Panelists for 2008:
•• Casey Ebro (Arcade Publishing | editor)
•• Kirby Kim (Endeavor | agent)
•• Christine Pride (Random House | editor)
•• Rakesh Satyal (Harper Collins| editor)
•• Anna Ghosh (Scovil,Galen,Ghosh Agency| agent)


A special thanks to those who joined OW in 2007:
•• Anjali Singh (Houghton Mifflin | editor)
•• Kirby Kim (Vigliano Associates | agent)
•• Chris Jackson (Random House | editor)
•• Amber Qureshi (Simon & Schuster | editor)
•• Regina Brooks (Serendipity Literary Agency | agent)

**Fall Artist-in-Residence**
November 2008
Once a semester, Our Word invites an author of color to spend a week as a cultural Author-in-Residence. In November we’ll be very honored to bring author Ed Park to the Writing Division. During his week-long residency, Ed will meet with OW members one-on-one to discuss their manuscripts. He will also have a dinner with a select number of WD students to discuss his novel, PERSONAL DAYS.

Ed Park is a founding editor of The Believer and a former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and many other publications. He lives in Manhattan, where he publishes The New-York Ghost.

Past Authors-in-Residence include:
•• Aracelis Girmay
•• Uzodinma Iweala
•• Emily Raboteau
•• Victor LaValle
•• Hilton Als
•• Ernesto Quinonez
•• Laura Restrepo
•• Malcom Gladwell
•• Colson Whitehead