Upcoming Events Calendar

Conferences

Austin Film Festival 1998
Oct. 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.

High Plains Book Festival
October 16 - 18, 1998
Book Festival authors to include John Erickson, Kinky Friedman, William Bernhardt, and Carole Nelson Douglas.

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.

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.

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:
https://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.

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.

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.

--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.

-- 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.