Day 12: Getting & Giving Feedback with Daphne Kalotay and Margot Livesey

How to (and how not to) give and receive feedback, with authors and teachers Daphne Kalotay and Margot Livesey.

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Margot Livesey grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands.  She is the author of nine novels, a collection of stories and a book of essays about the craft of fiction. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and spends much of the year in Cambridge, Ma.

Daphne Kalotay is the author of the story collection, Calamity and Other Stories, as well as the novels Russian Winter, Sight Reading, and Blue Hours. Her bestselling work has been published in twenty languages and won her numerous national and international awards. Her forthcoming collection, The Archivists, won the  the 2021 Grace Paley Prize and will be published in Spring 2023.Daphne lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and teaches at Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing.

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