Save the date:
March 18-20, 2011
Featured Speakers:
• Fiction Intensive with James Scott Bell – author of Plot and Structure and Revision and Self-Editing, as well as dozens of novels
• Nonfiction Intensive with Lee Gutkind – called “the godfather of creative nonfiction,” author of The Art of Creative Nonfiction, Truckin’ With Sam, Almost Human: Making Robots Think; editor of Creative Nonfiction Journal
• Agent Intensive with Chuck Sambuchino – Author of Guide to Literary Agents and Screenwriter’s and Playwright’s Market, editor for Writers Digest Books
• Donna Ballman – children’s author and author of Let’s Quill All the Lawyers
• Agents Katharine Sands and Elaine Spencer
Comments from those attending the 2010 conference:
“informative, varied, well managed and entertaining”
“reignited my passion for writing”
“All the suggestions and techniques I heard are spinning in my head, and the ideas they
are generating are so exciting.”
“an ambitious, thorough, and helpful event for all of us writers”
“a very impressive event”
“fantastic event with a wide variety of great speakers”
“I belong to several different groups here in St. Pete and have been e-mailing all of them
about what a great time I had.”
“Donald Maass' Sunday session was especially valuable to me.”
“Can't wait to see what you have in mind for next year.”
Interested in speaking at a future Tallahassee Festival of Books and Writers Conference?
Contact conference@tallahasseewriters.net7 (manually remove the 7 before sending your message.)
Please send bio, website, and topics prepared to speak on. Note: no honorarium is offered for book festival appearances, but we do offer honorariums to out-of-town conference instructors when funds permit.
Would you like to be an event sponsor?
Be sure to check out the 2009 conference photos.
