Upcoming Events Calendar

Upcoming Events

Conferences

The North Carolina Writers' Network Fall Conference
November 19-21, 1999
Grove Park Inn
Asheville, North Carolina
Website: http://www.ncwriters.org/fall.htm.

San Diego State University Writers' Conference
January 21, 22nd, and 23rd, 2000
Doubletree Hotel
San Diego's Famous Mission Valley
Website: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/extstd/writersconference.html.

Annual Southwest Florida Writers Conference
March 3-4, 2000
Radisson Inn
Ft. Myers, Florida
Website: http://www.gulfwriters.org/.

Houston Writers Conference 2000
March 16-19, 2000
Houston Marriot Westside
Houston, Texas
Website: http://www.houstonwrites.com/conference.html.

Left Coast Crime 10
March 17-19, 2000
Holiday Inn City Center
Tucson, Arizona
Website: http://www.leftcoastcrime.com.

Contests

Playboy is running its annual fiction contest which is open only to college students. The first prize is $3000 and publication in the October 2000 issue of Playboy magazine. The entry deadline is January 1, 2000. Complete details are available on the website.

The deadline for the NCWA 2000 competition, which has a $15,000 cash purse, is January 31, 2000. Screenplays, stageplays, fiction in all genres are ccepted. The competition is supported by Anthony Michael Hall, Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope All Story and others. Entry Fee: $30. Visit the website for complete details.

The Santa Fe Writers Project is offering a new content with cash awards, including a first prize of $7,500 in both prose (fiction/nonfiction) and screenwriting categories. Judges include novelists Kate Horsley and Ray Robertson, and the final judge is award-winning author Richard Currey. Entry Fee: $45. Visit the website for more information.

Teen writers can enter the "Keeping Your Cool: Teens Against Violence" which began on September 27, 1999. Entrants will write a 750 to 1000 word essay discussing why they believe there has been such a recent dramatic rise in teenage violence, and what they believe can be done to prevent it. The entries will be separated into two different age brackets, 13 through 15 years old, and 16 through 19. In each age bracket, there will be one 1st place winners who will each be awarded a $1,500 scholarship, one 2nd place winners receiving a $750 scholarship, and one 3rd place winners receiving a $500 scholarship. All entries must be received by December 31, 1999. Visit the website, CulturalCool.com, for complete details.