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Index Interviews: Dan Brown Rebecca Forster Articles: Book, or Script, or Both? Using Poetry to Improve Your Writing Effective Use of Search Engines Upcoming Events Calendar Reader Mail Return to This Issue's Index Return to Homepage Subscribe
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Upcoming EventsConferencesSmall Press Center Workshop May 12 A workshop from The Small Press Center Workshop series titled, "selling your books: working with chain stores, distributors and wholesalers." The workshop will be followed by an informal reception. The Small Press Center 20 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036 Email: smallpress@aol.com. Pennwriters 11th Annual Conference May 15-17 Multi-genre conference, including workshops for nonfiction writers. Speakers include S.L. Stebel, Margot Dalton, Warren Murphy, Paul Raymond Martin and others. Editor and agent appointements available with Ginger Buchanan, Sr. Executive Editor at Ace, Alice Orr and Jennifer Jackson. Fee is $160 before May 1, 1998, $175 after. Hotel discounts apply during conference. For more information email: pptc@cyber-quest.com BookExpo America '98 May 28 - June 2 The largest trade event in the United States serving the entire book publishing industry. McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. For more information visit the website at: http://bookexpo.reedexpo.com/. 1998 Bram Stoker Awards Banquet June 4-7 Horror Writers Association Annual Meeting. New York Marriott East Side. Toastmaster: Ed Bryant. Lifetime Achievement Award Co-recipients: William Blatty and Jack Williamson For more information visit the website at: http://www.horror.org/stokefly.htm. Contests-- There are only a few days left in Amazon's Doonesbury contest in which each day Amazon.com will post a new "panel" of the Doonesbury comic strip. To enter for a Daily Prize, write what you believe to be the best dialogue for that day's panel. The last day of the contest is May 15th. Contest rules and the entry form is available on Amazon.com's website.-- AOL members can enter a Chicken Soup for the Soul competition. The first-place winner in each country will receive a signed copy of one of the current Chicken Soup for the Soul books. The grand prize winner of the international competition will receive $100 U.S. And any story that is included in the published book will receive at least $300 U.S. Details are available on America Online at Keyword: Chicken Soup Contest. -- World Wide Writers is seeking entrants for its new quarterly writing competitions. Details can be found online at: http://www.btinternet.com/~alex.keegan1/WWWpage.htm. -- Mattel is looking for unusual and creative rules to its game, UNO, that build off the current rules and enhance game play, yet are simple enough to be easily adopted by UNO players everywhere. The grand prize is $5,000 dollars and details can be found at: http://www.service.mattel.com/uno. The deadline for the UNO contest is May 15, 1998. 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/. |