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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.

July Calendar
13 Big Bend Poets meeting 7 p.m. Barnes and Noble in the Tallahassee Mall.
15 TWA general meeting 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall on Lake Ella. Speaker: Lu Vickers has been a Professor teaching creative writing at Tallahassee Community College since 1989. Her fascination with Florida and its myriad of attractions are evident in her books and stories, including her forthcoming Cypress Gardens, America’s Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida, her previous publications, Breathing Underwater and Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids, A History of One of Florida’s Oldest Roadside Attractions. Additionally, Ms. Vickers has had over 15 short stories, and 19 essays published. She is also the recipient of awards for her works from the Florida Humanities Council, The Florida Arts Council Fellowship, the Astraea Foundation, Florida State University.

August Calendar
10 Big Bend Poets meeting 7 p.m. Barnes and Noble in the Tallahassee Mall.
19 TWA general meeting 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall on Lake Ella. Speaker: Claire Hammer Matturro will speak on “Developing Characters that Live and Engage.” She has published four mysteries including, Skinny Dipping, Wildcat Wine, Bone Valley and Sweetheart Deal. Skinny Dipping was the 2004 winner of the Romantic Times, Readers Choice Best First Mystery, and selected for inclusion as a Poisoned Pen First Mystery. Wildcat Wine was touted as a “smart legal thriller” by the New York Times Book Review, while Sweetheart Deal was the winner of the Toby Bromberg Award for Most Humorous Mystery. Ms. Matturro has also had numerous non-fiction articles published in various law journals, and was the editor of The Trial Advocate Quarterly, a publication for Florida Defense Attorneys. In addition to that Ms. Matturro has been a practicing attorney, a visiting professor of research and writing, and at the beginning of her career was a newspaper reporter.



Current Newsletter

TWA member Glynn Marsh Alam wins the Florida Book Awards gold medal for popular fiction.

Lisa Rector Young Writers Scholarship
Lisa Rector-Maass, who spoke at our 2010 conference, wants us to know about the scholarship she offers to writers ages 12-18. Deadline to apply: July 31, 2010. Winner earns full scholarship to the Surrey International Writers Conference in October.
Details to enter at http://www.thirddraftnyc.com.

 

Poet Laureate
Mary Jane Ryals

Mary Jane Ryals

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