The 2009 Sanibel Island Writers Conference IS happening. 
We'll be updating this website SOON.
In the meantime...

2009 Dates: November 5-8.

Confirmed presenters:

Carl Hiaasen (Keynote Speaker)
Steve Almond (Writing from Your Obsessions)
Julianna Baggott (Young adult and/or Screenwriting)
Lynne Barrett (Fiction)
Ishmael Beah (Memoir)
Dan Bern (Songwriting)
John Brandon (Fiction)
Christine Buckley (Freelance Journalism)
Tom Chiarella (Esquire fiction editor--freelance journalism)
John Dufresne (Fiction)
Carmen Edington (Editor--Fiction Collective Two)
William Giraldi (Memoir)
William Greenway (Poetry)
Sue Henshon (Children's Lit)
Jeanne Leiby (Southern Review editor/short story)
Molly Lyons (Lit Agent)
CD Mitchell (Editor)
Nina Romano (Poetry)
John K. Samson (of The Weakerthans--Songwriting)
Christopher Schelling (Lit Agent)
Abby Sher (Memoir)
Lauren Small (Self Publishing)
Laura Valeri (Fiction)
Willy Vlautin (Novel & Songwriting)
Sidney Wade (Subtropics Poetry Editor)
Jay Wexler (Creative Nonfiction)
Liza Wieland (Fiction)
Tom Williams (Editor--American Book Review)

E-mail me with any questions at tdemarch@fgcu.edu.

Sincerely,
Tom DeMarchi, Director

Phone: (239) 590-7421
Fax: (239) 590-7445
e-mail: tdemarch@fgcu.edu