{"id":15503,"date":"2022-10-14T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T17:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2022-10-14T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T17:47:28","slug":"center-stage-presents-author-michael-james-rizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2022\/administration\/center-stage-presents-author-michael-james-rizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Center Stage Presents: Author Michael James Rizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us, Thursday, October 20, for two events featuring novelist <strong>Michael James <\/strong><strong>Rizza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWriting Stories: Engaging your Reader through Plot\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Oct.20, 11-11:50am, Henderson 305<\/p>\n<p>Michael James Rizza looks at the different elements of plot and how they work together to grab your readers\u2019 interest and keep them turning pages.\u00a0All are invited.<\/p>\n<p>Rizza&#8217;s debut novel, <em>Cartilage and Skin<\/em>, was chosen as winner of the Starcherone Fiction Prize and won a silver medal in the <em>Foreword<\/em> Best of the Indies in the Thriller\/Suspense category. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Eastern New Mexico University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An Evening with Novelist Michael James <\/strong><strong>Rizza<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Oct.20, 7pm, Backdoor Playhouse<\/p>\n<p>Rizza will read from his fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cartilage and Skin has it all: a fast-paced narrative, cool language, downtrodden characters, and addictive intrigue, Rizza writes with dark high-energy and philosophical flair. The story shifts with every page, never losing momentum, always surprising us. Fascinating, ferocious reading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Deb Olin Unferth, author of <em>Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us, Thursday, October 20, for two events featuring novelist Michael James Rizza. \u201cWriting Stories: Engaging your Reader through Plot\u201d Thursday, Oct.20, 11-11:50am, Henderson 305 Michael James Rizza looks at the different elements of plot and how they work together to grab your readers\u2019 interest and keep them turning pages.\u00a0All are invited. Rizza&#8217;s debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-15503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-administration","7":"tag-facstaff","8":"tag-rs","9":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions\/15528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}