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Sanibel Island Writers Conference
| Contact: | Tom DeMarchi | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Address: | Department of Language & Literature, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Fort Myers, FL, 33965-6565 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Phone: | 239-590-7421 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fax: | 239-590-7445 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| E-mail: | tdemarch@fgcu.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website: | http://www.fgcu.edu/siwc | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dates: | November 5-8, 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genres: | Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Screenwriting, Children's Literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuition/Cost: | Varies (Early bird special) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scholarship: | We'll be holding a contest with THREE grand prize winners | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Faculty: | Carl Hiaasen (Keynote Speaker) Steve Almond (Writing from Your Obsessions) Julianna Baggott (Young Adult Fiction and Screenwriting) Lynne Barrett (Fiction) Ishmael Beah (Memoir) Dan Bern (Songwriting) John Brandon (Fiction) Christine Buckley (Freelance Journalism) Tom Chiarella (Esquire fiction editor--Freelance Journalism) John Dufresne (Fiction) Carmen Edington (Editor--Fiction Collective Two) William Giraldi (Memoir) William Greenway (Poetry) Sue Henshon (Children's Lit) David Hilzenrath (Washington Post--newspaper journalism) Kristen Iversen (The Pinch Editor/Memoir) Jeanne Leiby (Southern Review editor/Short Story) Molly Lyons (Lit Agent) CD Mitchell (Editor) John K. Samson (of The Weakerthans--Songwriting) Christopher Schelling (Lit Agent) Abby Sher (Memoir) Laura Valeri (Fiction) Willy Vlautin (Novel & Songwriting) Sidney Wade (Subtropics Poetry Editor) Jay Wexler (Creative Nonfiction) Liza Wieland (Fiction) Tom Williams (Editor--American Book Review) |
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| Description: | The conference is open to anyone interested in writing, networking and publishing. We've got something for everyone. Pace yourself according to your interests and ambitions. College students can earn 3 (THREE) credits for taking the Sanibel Island Writers Confernce class. Participants at all stages of development--from notebook scribblers to published novelists--are invited to attend a variety of four-day morning workshops in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, songwriting, and creative nonfiction; afternoon panels on publishing, editing, collaborative writing, and humor writing; and nightly readings--all presented by celebrated and experienced writers, editors, agents, and teachers. For an additional fee, participants also have the opportunity to meet privately with a writer, agent or editor to discuss (a maximum) 10 pages of a pre-submitted manuscript. The conference is open to any aspiring writer who wants to create new work or refine a project already in progress. Past conferences have attracted a whole range of attendees: retired journalists, napkin poets, published memoirists, aspiring novelists, junior high songwriters, and big readers who just want an excuse to spend a weekend on Sanibel. We have 150 openings for the conference itself; however, space for individual manuscript consultations is very limited, so act fast! For more info about general registration and manuscript consultations, visit our website at www.fgcu.edu/siwc. The conference is being held from November 5-8, 2009, at BIGARTS on Sanibel Island. With 26 miles of bike paths, world famous sunsets, and an average temperature of 74 degrees F., Sanibel Island is located on Florida 's Gulf Coast , just thirty minutes from Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers. Since the first settlers arrived in 1833, Sanibel has attracted such prestigious sightseers and residents as Theodore Roosevelt, Stephen King, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dan Brown, Randy Wayne White, Thomas Edison (who once worked as a night watchman for Sanibel's International Telegraph Company), and Charles and Anne Lindbergh. During conference downtime, attendees are encouraged to bike, hike, and/or kayak through the J.N. "Ding" Darling Wildlife Refuge-- 6,400-acres of mangrove forest, seagrass beds, and cordgrass marshes, and home to over 220 species of birds-- or to collect the over 400 varieties of seashells that can be found along Sanibel's 15 miles of public beaches. Because classes will begin on the morning of the 5th, we recommend that out-of-town attendees arrive on Wednesday the 4th. We hope you're as excited about the Sanibel Writers Conference as we are. We've done everything we can to bring in the best writers available for a variety of workshops, panels, and consultations. And we've tried very hard to keep the costs affordable, which is why we encourage you to register now, before the rates increase on August 1. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us. In the meantime, we hope to see you in November! Sincerely, Tom DeMarchi, Director Phone: (239) 590-7421 e-mail: tdemarch@fgcu.edu |
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