Contact Author Victoria Grageda-Smith - Victoria Grageda-Smith

Ms. Grageda-Smith is happy to accept invitations to read from her literary works, sign her books, speak before writers and book clubs, and for other public appearances under the following terms:

Host/sponsor provides adequate and appropriate travel and board arrangements, and when necessary, adequate and appropriate lodging accommodations.
Host/sponsor allows the promotion and sale of Ms. Grageda-Smith’s books and other works during the event.
Host/sponsor compensates Ms. Grageda-Smith with a speaker’s honorarium in an amount available upon query, negotiable for non-profits and/or charitable projects, upon request.

GATECRASHER! TALKS is a presentation by Ms. Grageda-Smith focused on the needs of beginner writers and otherwise talented and experienced writers who are struggling to access the competitive U.S. literary publishing market. This talk is most beneficial to writers who dream of writing books and breaking out in the U.S. publishing market but don’t have an M.F.A. in Creative Writing degree.

GATECRASHER! TALKS was inspired by the title of Ms. Grageda-Smith’s essay, “Gatekeepers and Gatecrashers in Contemporary American Poetry: Reflections of a Filipino Immigrant Poet in the United States,” that appears in Black Lawrence Press’ 2015 anthology, OTHERS WILL ENTER THE GATES: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America. In this talk, Ms. Grageda-Smith will expound on the skills and techniques she developed and used to break out–indeed, GATECRASH!–into the ultra-competitive US literary publishing world and enabled her to achieve literary awards in multiple writing genres, publishing contracts, and features in author events sponsored by major libraries and civic organizations.

Ms. Grageda-Smith may be booked for GATECRASHER! TALKS under the following terms:

Host/sponsor provides adequate and appropriate travel and board arrangements, and when necessary, adequate and appropriate lodging accommodations.
Host/sponsor allows the promotion and sale of Ms. Grageda-Smith’s books and other works during the event.
Host/sponsor compensates Grageda-Smith with a presenter’s honorarium in an amount available upon query, negotiable for non-profits and/or charitable projects, upon request.