Name: First Draft Live: The Debut Journey
Start: 2025-06-09T16:30:00-0600
End: 2025-06-09T18:00:00-0600

Monday June 9, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm MDT

Join Mitzi Rapkin for a live episode of her popular First Draft podcast. This one will feature a conversation between debut authors Nini Berndt and Evanthia Bromiley and as they discuss their publication journeys, their book launch learning curve, their inspiration and challenges, and more. Mitzi's First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing, a literary podcast now in its 12th year of production, has more than 500 interviews in the archive.

Speakers

Mitzi Rapkin

Panelist

Mitzi Rapkin is the founder, host and producer of the literary podcast, “First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing,” which features a new author interview each week. She has interviewed more than 500 contemporary writers of fiction, nonfiction, essays, and poetry over the past twelve... Read More →

Nini Berndt

Nini Berndt's debut novel, There Are Reasons for This, comes out from Tin House Press in spring 2025. She's a graduate of the MFA program in Fiction at the University of Florida, and her work has appeared in The Southampton Review, Subtropics, Adroit, Passages North, Blackbird... Read More →

Evanthia (Evie) Bromiley

Evanthia Bromiley is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the recipient of scholarships from the Aspen Institute, a Lighthouse Fellowship, a Lisel Mueller scholarship, and Elizabeth George and Carol Houck-Smith awards. She is the 2025 Grace Paley Fellow for... Read More →

Monday June 9, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3844 York Street Denver, CO 80205

Fiction Nonfiction/Memoir

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Lit Fest 2025

Mitzi Rapkin

Nini Berndt

Evanthia (Evie) Bromiley

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