The Southwest Florida Writers Conference will be held Saturday, April 13th at the Cultural Center of Port Charlotte.
2280 Aaron St,
Port Charlotte, FL 33952
(941) 625-4175
The theme is “The Hudson comes to the Peace.”
Scribbler Melody Dean Dimick will speak twice, along with many other stellar writers. Here is a link to the conference schedule.
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH FESTIVAL
APRIL 7, 2019
Sponsored by CHI Creative Happiness Institute, Ormond Mainstreet,
OBAD Ormond Beach Arts District, and Tomoka Poets
1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
The Casements, Ormond Beach
All styles of poetry. Special guest features.
Open mic. Free & open to the public.
1:00 Thanks to our sponsors: Dr. David B. Axelrod, Volusia County Poet Laureate and Director, CHI
1:10 Maryann Westbrook, President, Tomoka Poets. Kyra Brokoph, poet.
1:20 Mary Grantham, English Professor. Author of When the Sun Sails
1:30 Live Poets Society: Robert Blenheim, Cherelyn Bush, Vicki Iorio, Llewellyn McKernan, Ellen Nielsen, and Jesse Owens.
2:00 Marc Davidson, author of Notable Wonders.
2:10 Melody Dimick, author of Backpack Blues: Inspire the Fire Within.
2:20 Young Poets: Victoria Mullins, author of Angels Don’t Understand Love.
Abigail Truelsen celebrating the publication of Cortez. Aurora Perna, forthcoming chapbook.
2:30 Hazel Sparrow, poet, project director of Bachata, Merengue, Salsa anthology.
—Buy 50-50 raffle tickets, 6 for $5. Print your name/phone # so we can call you when you win!—
2:40 Robert Calabrese.
2:50 Rosemary Volz, poet.
3:00 Stephanie Salkin, Flagler County Art League Poetry Competition.
3:10 Poet and slam coordinator, Kevin Campbell aka NoirJente; Roger Duvernoy.
3:30 Open Mic, hosted by Tomoka Poets’ Maryann Westbrook.
[Sign-up sheet at raffle table. 3-minute limit, please.]
4:00 Conclusion.
This event made possible in part by funding from the
Volusia County Cultural Council
CHI, 1104 Jacaranda Avenue, Daytona Beach, FL 32118. Website, www.creativehappiness.org.
CHI is a 501-c-3, non-profit, charitable organization.
Our motto: “Be Creative, Be Well.”
Writer’s Alliance of Gainesville, is putting on the Sunshine State Book Festival January 24 -26, 2020 in Gainesville, Florida. Author registration for table space is now available online.
The three-day festival will open with a reception at the Matheson History Museum on Friday, January 24. All events are free and open to the public. A large turnout is expected.
Saturday, a full-day book festival held at the Santa Fe College Fine Arts Hall will give authors an opportunity to interact with readers, sell and sign books. During the Saturday festival, seven presentations by well-known authors will attract additional attendees. There will also be hourly free prize drawings of books authored by festival participants.
On Sunday, a literary heritage tour will provide an experience with four of Florida’s legendary literary figures portrayed in the Gainesville area settings where they lived or worked.
Authors interested in exhibit space are encouraged to register now as table space is selling out quickly.
For further information and to register, visit the festival website at www.sunshinestatebookfestival.com
Produced by Writers Alliance of Gainesville.
Sponsored in part by Santa Fe College, Santa Fe College Foundation, and Visit Gainesville.
WHO: Writers from Jacksonville and surrounding areas who want to improve their writing while helping others to improve, as well.
WHAT: Gentle critiques of poems and short prose pieces by and for beginning, student, professional, and published writers.
WHEN: Monday, April 8, 2019 at 6-9 PM
WHERE: FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32246, Building T, Room 101
https://www.fscj.edu/campuses/south-campus
The JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VI will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2019.
One of our goals this year is to encourage Jacksonville writers who have not yet taken part in this annual celebration of “Jacksonville writers writing Jacksonville” to participate. To that end, UNF, FSCJ and JaxbyJax will team up to host a monthly writing workshop at various locations around the city so that both student and non-student writers from the Jacksonville-area community can find out more about the festival, and also polish their writing through gentle critiques of their work.
The next workshop will be held on Monday, April 8th from 6 – 9 PM in room T-101 at the South Campus of FSCJ. Please bring 20 copies of your poem or short prose piece. You’ll get to hear your work read aloud by another writer, and then receive spoken feedback and written suggestions to take home.
JaxbyJax Writing Workshops are free, and open to the public (high school and older, please.) Participation in the workshop does not guarantee acceptance into the juried literary festival.
