Upcoming Events Calendar

2001 Texas Book Festival
November 15-18, 2001
Austin, TX

Moondance Film Festival
January 25-27, 2002
Boulder, Colorado
Website: http://www.moondancefilmfestival.com/.

E&P Interactive Newspapers 2002 Conference & Trade Show
February 6-9, 2002
San Jose, CA

New York International Children's Film Festival
February 18 – March 23
New York, NY
Website: http://www.gkids.com/.

Sleuthfest
March 15-17, 2002
Florida

Left Coast Crime
March 21-24, 2002
Portland, Oregon

The Pheonix Film Festival
April 5-7, 2002
Pheoniz, Arizona
Website: http://www.phoenixfilmfestival.com/.

Note: For a database which contains many more upcoming conferences, author chats and booksignings, be sure to visit Writers Write^® Events.

Contests

Hyperion Books for Children is running its New Voices, New Worlds First Novel Award contest. The award will be given annually to the winner(s) of a competition for a work of contemporary or historical fiction set in the United States that reflects the diverse ethnic and cultural heritage of our country. The prize is a book contract on the publisher's standard form with an advance against royalties of $7500 and a $1500 cash prize. The entry date has been extended to April 30, 2002.

The deadline for 4th quarter entries to L. Ron Hubbard's annual Writers of the Future contest is December 31. Rules can be found on the Writers of the Future website.

For more information on writing conferences and literary events please visit the events database on Writers Write^® at https://www.writerswrite.com/events/.

Return to the October-November 2001 issue of The IWJ.