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Upcoming EventsConferencesBook Builders West -- Book ShowDecember 4 Awards for outstanding book design, production, and manufacturing are presented annually at the Bookbuilders West Book Show. The entrants are publishers and suppliers who do business in the western United States; the judges are designers and production experts - staff and freelance - from publishing, design, and book manufacturing. For many information visit the website at http://www.bookbuilders.org/BkSh.htm. Key West Literary Seminar: Children's Literature January 8-11 For information contact: Conference Director Key West Literary Seminar 3531 Eagle Ave. Key West, FL. 33040. Wrangling With Writing The Society of Southwestern Authors January 23 & 24 SSA's 26th annual writer’s conference, Wrangling With Writing, will be held at InnSuites Hotel in Tucson, Arizona. Featured speakers will be best-selling mystery and suspense writer Andrew Vachss, Pulitzer prize-winning poet and author N. Scott Momaday, and Reader's Digest editor Philip B. Osborne. The conference will also include thirty workshops covering all genres of writing for every skill level and prescheduled one-on-one appointments with speakers, soliciting agents and editors, and consultants on everything from research and writing to editing and marketing. To receive a brochure call (520) 615-3109 fax (520) 296-0409 or e-mail: spoon@azstarnet.com (re: SSA). Tokyo International Book Fair 98 (TIBF) January 22-25 Inspiring readers of all generations, the Tokyo International Book Fair is an event for all categories of publications and publishing rights for books in all formats and for all book professionals. It is the venue for booksellers to discover new books, the place to shop for books in every language, and the place to search for possible acquisitions. Venue: Tokyo Big Sight-Tokyo, Japan 3-21-1 Ariake,Koto-ku,Tokyo 135 For more information visit TIBF's website at http://www.jbpa.or.jp/tibf/index-e.htm 23rd Annual International Conference on Film and Literature "Race in Film and Literature" January 29 - 31 This conference will provide a forum for over three hundred papers presented by scholars from throughout the U.S. and abroad. The theme invites discussion on both the traditional and contemporary concepts of race in film and literature and their effect on literary and cinematic texts, authors, directors, producers, actors, readers and viewers. Florida State University Turnbull Conference Center 555 West Pensacola Street, Tallahassee, Florida For more information, visit the website at http://www.fsu.edu/~modlang/complit98/complit98.html Contests*National Enquirer, at http://www.nationalenquirer.com, is still running a weekly contest with a $300 prize. Information is available at its website.*Microsoft's The Money 98 Scholarship Contest expires at Midnight, Dec. 31st. A total of $2,500 in scholarships is being offered. Complete contest rules are available at: http://www.microsoft.com/money/fastweb/guide.htm. *Playboy College Fiction Contest entries must be postmarked by January 1, 1998. Playboy is offering a first prize of $3000 and publication in the October issue and a second prize of $500 to college students. Complete details can be found on the webpage at http://www.playboy.com/announcements/fiction-contest.html. For more information on writing contests, or to submit your own, please click here to visit the classified page on Writers Write®. For more information on writing conferences and literary events, or to add your event, please visit the events database on Writers Write® at http://www.writerswrite.com/events/. |