Events › Writer in Residence: One-on-One Consultations with Meg Files

Writer in Residence Meg Files will be available for eight 30-minute one-on-one sessions per week, September 5 to November 21, 2024.

• Monday afternoons, 1:00 to 3:00pm, at Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Library
• Thursday afternoons, 4:30 to 6:30pm, at Quincie Douglas Library

Consult with Meg for suggestions, feedback, and tips on writing and publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She offers advice, feedback, and resources for writers of all levels, beginning to experienced.

Writers under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Registration opens one week before each consultation. Limit one 30-minute consultation per week. Click the link in the upper right corner to register.

Read more about the Writer in Residence program.

Meg Files is the author of the novels Meridian 144 and The Third Law of Motion, Home Is the Hunter and Other Stories, and the novella A Hollow, Muscular Organ. Her poetry books are The Love Hunter and Other Poems, Lit Blue Sky Falling, and, most recently, The Beasts. Her book Writing What You Know is about using personal experience and taking risks in writing. She edited the anthology Lasting: Poems on Aging.

Meg taught creative writing for many years at colleges and universities, including Pima Community College, where she directed the Pima Writers’ Workshop for 28 years. Her awards include a Bread Loaf fellowship. She was the James Thurber Writer-in-Residence at The Ohio State University. She directs the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and Masters Workshop.

The Writer in Residence Program is made possible by the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.