Lit Lab: Winter Workshop Series with John Vercher

This workshop requires tickets. There are two options. One admits you to the workshop, and the other includes a copy of DEVIL IS FINE. The ticket option that includes the book offers excellent value, as the author will personally sign this book, as well as any additional books purchased at The Doylestown Bookshop during the workshop evening.

Let’s have a dialogue about dialogue.

There is no right way to write dialogue—I only know the techniques that work best for me. I’ll share those as part of this session—but I want to hear from you as well. What works in helping you craft realistic conversations on the page? With time permitting, we’ll engage in a generative exercise to implement some of the ideas we discuss.

About our Guest:
John Vercher lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two sons. He has a BA in English from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in creative writing from the Mountainview Master of Fine Arts program. John was an assistant teaching professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University, was the inaugural Wilma Dykeman writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and is the 2024–2025 artist-in-residence at Monmouth University. His debut novel, Three-Fifths, was named one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune and Booklist. It was nominated for the Edgar Award and the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel. His second novel, After the Lights Go Out, called “shrewd and explosive” by the New York Times, was named a Best Book of Summer 2022 by Book Riot and Publishers Weekly and a Booklist Editors’ Choice book of 2022. His most recent novel, Devil Is Fine, was named one of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2024 and has been longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize.

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