FIU/Hutchinson Island Writers Conference

Here’s a link to the Fiu/Hutchinson Island Writers Conference.

It’s October 22-25, 2008.

Here’s a list of the staff.

“Joining us in Stuart on Florida’s lovely Treasure Coast in 2008 will be same staff of fine writers and teachers and editors and agents as those who were set for the 2007 conference in Key West:

Keynote Speaker, DENNIS LEHANE (Mystic River);

Fiction Writer TOM FRANKLIN (Poachers);

Poet PETER MEINKE (The Contracted World);

Non-Fiction Writer MARCIE HERSHMAN (Speak to Me);

Freelancer and Novelist BREWSTER ROBERTSON (A Posturing of Fools);

Poet and Carnegie Mellon Press Editor GERALD COSTANZO (Nobody Lives on Miami Beach);

the Barnes & Noble Publishing Seminars, featuring RICHARD PINE of Inkwell Management and RACHEL KLAYMAN of Crown Publishers;

novelist JAMES W. HALL (Hell’s Bay);

non-fiction writer DAN WAKEFIELD (The Hijacking of Jesus);

poet, CAMPBELL MCGRATH (Seven Notebooks);

fiction writer JOHN DUFRESNE (Requiem, Mass.);

poet DENISE DUHAMEL (Two and Two);

fiction writer LYNNE BARRETT (The Secret Names of Women);

poet NICK CARBO (Andalusian Dawn);

and non-fiction writer LES STANDIFORD (Washington Burning).”

Ann Rittenberg, Dennis Lehane’s agent, recommends attending conferences to help your novel go from Good to Great.

Wishing you Joy and Timelessness in your writing.