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How to Write a Great First Page
2025-10-17 18:00:00 2025-10-17 20:00:00 America/Denver How to Write a Great First Page With Candace Nadon, associate English professor, Fort Lewis College. Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined

Friday, October 17
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-10-17 18:00:00 2025-10-17 20:00:00 America/Denver How to Write a Great First Page With Candace Nadon, associate English professor, Fort Lewis College. Durango Public Library - Room 1&2 Combined

Durango Public Library

Room 1&2 Combined

With Candace Nadon, associate English professor, Fort Lewis College.

In this workshop, we’ll discuss the factors necessary to make a great first page of a novel, no matter the genre, and examine those factors in action in some stellar first pages. We’ll also spend some time writing and workshopping our own first pages, so please come with your novel ideas. This session is designed not only to help you begin the kind of novel that readers can’t put down but inspire you to submit to the Durango Public Library’s November First Page Contest!

About Candance:

Candace Nadon, PhD is an Associate Professor of English, John F. Reed Honors Program Coordinator, and Coordinator of Academic and Creative Enrichment at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. Her work explores the intersections between gender and place and her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous journals. She is currently writing a Colorado-based thriller. Candace lives in Durango and loves adventuring with her Aussie, Rowan.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Literary Festival |

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