Verb produces some of the largest book and music events in Atlanta and Decatur. With over twenty years working with authors, musicians, book events and public radio, Verb is the go-to source for making author events happen in Atlanta. Words, Music, Hare-Brained Schemes: We do it all.
Some Verb projects you may know:
In partnership with Chronicle, Verb is the founding producer of the AJC-Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the Country. Celebrating five years of proving that Decatur and Atlanta has a thriving book culture, the AJC-DBF is ground zero for all things books in Georgia.
Working with legendary folk venue Eddie's Attic and Agnes Scott College, Verb has launched Eddie and Agnes, a new concert series for metro Atlanta. In coming months, Presser Hall, one of the best sounding venues in Atlanta, will host some of the top performers in the country.
Daren Wang, curator of Verb, appears weekly on WABE's City Cafe with John Lemley to promote book and author events around the region.
Verb: An Audioquarterly is an occasional literary magazine released only in audio. Presenting exclusive writing from some of the top writers in the country, some issues of Verb are available over at Audible. Vol. 1, No. 1 featuring Robert Olen Butler, James Dickey, Ha Jin, Tom Lux, Tom Franklin and Stuart Dybek and Vol. 1, No. 2 featuring Stuart Dybek, Peter Case, George Singleton and more.
Now in its third successful year, Fiction Shop covers the nuts and bolts of the craft of fiction. Progressing step by step through setting, dialogue, characters, plotting and editing, and other essential elements, with short exercises to push the learning curve, Fiction Shop steers writers to their next skill level – whatever that might be. All the lessons work for non-fiction writers too. Also included is a discussion of the publishing market and effective strategies for communicating with agents and publishers.
Instructor Bio
As the author of six novels with Harcourt Books, David Fulmer has won a Shamus Award and a Benjamin Franklin Award and has been nominated for a LA Times Book Prize, a Barry Award, a Falcon Award and is a past Georgia Author of the Year. His novels have been selected for numerous “Best of” lists, including New York Magazine’s “Best Novels You’ve Never Read” and Atlanta Magazine’s “Best of the Shelf,” and have received superlative reviews from the publications including The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, BookList, The Times Picayune, January Magazine, The Detroit New, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, The Christian Science Monitor, Bookpage, The Tennessean, The Plain Dealer, and Publishers Weekly..
Course Details
Eight weeks
Mondays 6-8 pm
April 13 through June 1 (No class on Memorial Day, May 25--that week's class will be held on Tuesday, May 26.)
176 S. Candler St., Decatur GA 30030
