WEALTH OF IDEAS

The organizers of the conference give the following as the ten reasons to attend the conference: Launch your writing career– or take it to a more professional level–with direction from bestselling authors and publishing experts. Choose from a schedule  of workshops, panels and sessions that fit your specific writing needs and goals. Get your questions answered at the Ask-a-Pro session featuring New York and California editors…included in your registration fee. Go to  Speed Dating for Agents – Pitch your book ideas one-on-one in a room full of literary agents ($50 option for registered attendees) Receive free feedback on your work from freelance book editors. Kick back in  Cafe Ferlinghetti with writers from all over the country…and foreign countries, too. Talk with  exhibitors and find out what’s new for writers. Browse our onsite bookstore (produced by BookShop West Portal) and you can get the books you purchase autographed by the presenters. Ju...

Andy Jones has just announced that Rebecca Foust will perform at Bistro 33 in Davis on Wednesday, March 4. I attended her reading once in Sacramento and I can tell you she is one poet whose reading you wouldnt want to miss. She has earned degrees from Smith College, Stanford Law School, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program. Her poetry can be found in many national journals, including Margie and the North American Review, and in her two prize-winning books. Rebecca’s new book, Mom’s Canoe won the 2008 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Award and will be released in March 2009 by Texas Review Press. It addresses family and place in the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania, an area of once-pristine rural landscapes now recovering from the last century’s extensive coal mining and railroading industries. Most of the poems were previously published in journals such as Margie, North American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Texas Review, and one was nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Awar...