Upcoming Events Calendar

Conferences

Northern Arizona Book Festival
March 17-21, 1999
With more than 50 internationally acclaimed and bestselling authors, including Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, Michael Ondaatje, Bharati Mukherjee, Anchee Min, Robert Pinsky, Ron Chernow, Leslie Marmon Silko, Grace Paley, Russell Banks, Dorothy Allison, Akosua Busia, Quincy Troupe, Alfredo Véa, John Nichols, Daisy Zamora, Simon Ortiz, Bapsi Sidhwa, William Corbett, August Kleinzahler, Wanda Coleman, Luis Rodriguez and numerous others, along with leading New York editors and literary agents, the festival will feature some of the most important and influential authors of poetry, fiction and non-fiction from around the world.

Website: http://www.weeklywire.com/nabookfest/

SleuthFest 6th Fest
March 18 - 21, 1999
Sleuth Fest is a conference for writers of mystery, suspense and true crime novels. Conference March 18 - 21, 1999 at the Clarion Hotel on Hollywood Beach, FL. Lee Goldberg, author, Executive Producer and Head Writer of one of television's hottest and longest running TV series, will be the guest speaker at the Saturday night banquet. The evening's program will begin with the screening of an unaired, or recent, episode of Diagnosis Murder. Following dinner, Lee will talk about how a TV series episode is created, written, and produced, and about television series in general.

1999 Writer's Roundtable Conference
Dallas, Texas
Arpil 23 - 25, 1999
Each year, writers from across the U.S. and Canada (over half full-time, "I-make-my-living-doing-this" writers) attend the annual Writer's Roundtable Conference. WRC's unique dual-track schedule, free promotional services, and star-studded array of speakers are designed to help them fast-forward their careers. Attendees are able to "talk shop" with fellow pros--and mingle with top agents, editors, producers and publishers looking for new talent.

Website: http://wrc-online.com

NC Senior Citizen Writers' Conference
Rowan County YMCAs and Rufty-Holmes Sr. Center
April 29, 30 and May 1, 1999
First writing conference for senior citizens in NC. Six great writers from across the state including state poet laureate, Dr. Fred Chappell, and nationally renowned folk writer/storyteller, Jackie Torrence. Workshops on writers' grants, state literary contests, and freelance writing. Town tour. Luncheon. Banquet. Hotel discount. Writers' expo at YMCA.

Phone: 704-636-0111
Website: www.i-salisbury.com/ruftysc.htm.

Contests

--Beginning November 20, 1998, TNT's Roughcut.com hosts The Screenplay Challenge, a 10-week online round-robin screenwriting project that allows contributors to continue an original screenplay started by Hollywood screenwriter Pen Densham (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Moll Flanders, Backdraft). Each week, a panel of judges will select the best submission and post that chapter on the site. In addition to the opportunity to collaborate with Densham and publish online, each winner will be awarded $100.00 and the chance to win the Grand Prize -- a new laptop computer from which to write his or her next screenplay. Densham will write the final chapter.
More details on the website at: http://www.roughcut.com.

Return to the February 1999 issue of The IWJ.