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This year's Keynote Speaker is Carl Hiaasen.

The 2009 conference is being held from November 5-8 at BIGARTS on Sanibel Island.  

Participants at all stages of development - from notebook scribblers to published novelists - are invited to attend a variety of three-day morning workshops in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and creative nonfiction; afternoon panels on publishing, collaborative writing, and humor writing; and nightly readings – all presented by celebrated and experienced writers and teachers.

View photos from and comments about the 2008 conference.

Register for the 2009 conference.

Check this space later for late breaking announcements and additions to the 2009 schedule.

 

     2009 presenters include:
   

Erin Almond  
Steve Almond
Julianna Baggott
Lynne Barrett
Ishmael Beah
Dan Bern
John Brandon
Christine Buckley
Don Bullens

Tom Chiarella
John Dufresne
William Giraldi
William Greenway
Sue Henshon
Kristen Iversen 
Jeanne Leiby
Molly Lyons
CD Mitchell
 

Nina Romano 
Christopher Schelling
Abby Sher
Lauren Small 
Laura Valeri
Willy Vlautin
Sidney Wade
Jay Wexler
Liza Wieland 
Tom Williams