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Not Your Mother's Tropes: How to Subvert without Alienating Your Readers
Sunday September 29, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am MDT
Conference Room II
Tropes are the building blocks of literary tradition, but the most exciting works of today are often subversive. Using examples and generative writing exercises, we’ll explore ways to balance reader expectations with innovation, how to make old familiar conventions fresh without alienating readers.
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Rachel Dempsey

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Rachel Dempsey is a writer of horror, mystery and thrillers living in Denver. Her short fiction has been published by Shacklebound Books, Brigids Gate Press, Timber Ghost Press and Twenty Bellows (Pushcart nominated, 2023). She holds a BFA in Drama and English from NYU'S Tisch, a... Read More →
Sunday September 29, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am MDT
Conference Room II
  Conference Room II

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