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Upcoming EventsConferencesAustin Film Festival 1998Oct. 1-8, 1998 The Austin Film Festival is the first film festival dedicated to recognizing the writer's contribution to the motion picture and television industry. During 1997's festival, more than 1,500 aspiring writers and filmmakers from across the country rubbed elbows with scores of movie and TV film industry VIPs (conference panelists) and stars. For more details visit the website at: http://www.austinfilmfestival.org/. High Plains Book Festival October 16 - 18, 1998 Book Festival authors to include John Erickson, Kinky Friedman, William Bernhardt, and Carole Nelson Douglas. For more information visit the website at: http://bookfestival.arn.net/. One Planet, Many Voices: Writing about Nature and the Environment October 17, 1998 Speakers include: Karl Grossman author of The Wrong Stuff: The Nuclearization of Space, voted Most Censored Writer of 1997; John Elder, nature writer; Phyllis Larabee, poet; Joe Bruchac, Native American writer; John Dillon, investigative reporter; Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, investigative reporters. Cost of the all-day conference is $60 -- $50 if you register before 8 October Student and adjusted income rates available. More info about this upcoming conference may be found at the National Writers Union, Vermont Local Web site: http://homepages.together.net/~nwuvt/ GSHW Writers Conference Garden State Horror Writers October 24th Workshop leaders in short story, marketing, and novels. Guests inclue horror author Brent Monahan, Kathryn Ptacek, author, editor, and publisher of renowned Gila Queen Guide to Markets, Nebula winning author Michael Swanwick and playwright Jane Waterhouse. Registration, 8:45 A.M. Noon: Buffet luncheon Plus networking, hobnobbing with fellow writers. For more information visit the website at: http://www.para-net.com/~GSHW. 1998 Stephen J. Cannell Online Writing Seminar October 24th Includes materials, a live Q & A session with Emmy-winning producer/bestselling author Stephen J. Cannell and downloadable teleplay pilots of The A-Team, The Rockford Files, Wiseguy, and Greatest American Hero. $55.00 Visa, MC or money order. For more information visit the website at: http://www.writerswrite.com/seminar/. Magna cum Murder V October 30 - November 1, 1998 The 1998 conference will be $155 per person (checks made out to Ball State University) but that includes the banquet, breakfasts on Saturday and Sunday and box lunches on Saturday and Sunday. Vegetarian option available for Saturday banquet; call ahead, (765) 741-7777. Guests will include Sue Grafton, Lawrence Shames, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Patricia Moyes and John Harvey. For more information visit the website at: http://www.parlorcity.com/secop/murder.html. 17th Annual National Book Publishing Conference Rocky Mountain Book Publishers Association November 7-10, 1998 RMBPA sponsors a three-day professional development conference and annual meeting in the autumn of each year. The conference is usually held in Colorado or New Mexico and includes a broad-based educational and professional development program as well as seminars and colloquiums on publishing issues, vendor trade show exhibits, a banquet, and an annual design awards ceremony. Contact Information: Email: rmbpa@aol.com Phone: 303-499-9540 Website: http://www.rmbpa.com Contests-- Up to fifteen writers who win MTV's "The Write Stuff Short Story Competition" will be published in an upcoming anthology from MTV Books. The competition is open to unpublished writers ages 16 to 28 and runs until December 1, 1998. For more information visit the website.--The Coneybeare company is looking for the origin of its name in the "Myth of the Coneybeare" writing contest. The winner of the contest will receive $1000 cash. There will also be cash prizes for the first and second runners up in the amount of $500 and $100. Details can be found on the Coneybeare website at: http://www.coneybeare.com/contest/. -- The NYC 5th Annual 15-Minute Play Festival is seeking entries. Send SASE for guidelines to Turnip Theatre Co., 145 W. 46th St., NY, NY 10036 by 10/25. Play entry deadline is 11/1/98. Winners are awarded certificates and cash prizes (usually $100 each). All particpants are invited to attend closing night party and award ceremony. -- 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. 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/. |