Heidi from Sandman Book Company in Punta Gorda (http://www.sandmanbooks.com/ ) announced the Turtle Crossing Book Bazaar, a Florida book festival celebrating local authors and literature,
November 17, 2012 from 10 am to 4pm, at 16500 Burnt Store Road, Punta Gorda, Florida 33955 (near Burnt Store Marina). For details, check http://www.turtle-crossing.com/
Secondly, Christine Koryta, coordinator for the Eckerd College Writers’ Conference: Writers in Paradise, announced the Ninth Annual conference this January 19-27, 2013. Details are available at:
www.writersinparadise.com
The
2013 Eckerd College Writers’ Conference will feature lectures
on craft by
National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN/Faulkner Award
winning author, Ann
Patchett (State of Wonder), New York
Times Best-Selling authors Dennis Lehane (Live
By Night), and Michael Koryta (The
Prophet), as well as workshops led by Andre Dubus III –
Short Story I (House of Sand and Fog), Stewart
O’Nan –
Short Story II (Last Night at the Lobster),
Tom Franklin – Novel I (Crooked Letter,
Crooked Letter), Ann Hood – Novel II (The
Red Thread), Laura Lippman – Novel III (And
When She Was Good), Les Standiford – Nonfiction (Bringing Adam Home), Beth Ann Fennelly – Poetry
(Unmentionables), David Yoo – Young Adult
Writing (The Detention Club), and
much more.
All events will be updated as we receive more information.
Watch closely now, things are popping up daily!
George
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