The Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers, Florida, will be hosting an evening with Tom DeMarchi on May 2nd. Find out more at their website.
Check back soon for upcoming events with DeMarchi in Florida and around the United States.
Lynne Barrett will be at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference in Boston from April 5th-7th. Grub Street has been named North America's #1 Writing Conference by The Writer ​magazine. Find out more at the Muse and the Marketplace website.
Barrett will be leading a workshop on the revision process at the Writers Craft Conference of the Florida Keys, to be held at the Marathon Community Theater in Marathon, FL on April 13th. The workshop will "offer strategies for identifying revision habits that can limit you... and how to use your time well in finding your way along the path to a complete and satisfying story." Check out the Writers Craft Conference site for more.
And Barrett will be returning to the International Women's Writing Guild conference at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA on July 12th-19th. See the card at right and the IWWG website for more information.
Tom DeMarchi read at the Small Press Showcase hosted by Forest Avenue Press and Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon, March 29th, in conjunction with the AWP 2019 conference. Check out the Facebook event for more information.
Tom DeMarchi presented at the FGCU Writing Awards presentation in Fort Myers, Florida. He was the honored guest at the Student Writing Awards ceremony on March 20th, and the featured reader at the Samuel Pepys Reading Series on March 21st. Both events took place at Florida Gulf Coast University.
DeMarchi at Florida Gulf Coast University.
DeMarchi and other readers at the Small Press Showcase in Portland, Oregon.
DeMarchi at Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon.
The title story from Möbius Strips and Other Stories was chosen as a Best Small Fiction Anthology Selection 2019! Check out the full list of winners from the Sonder Press.
Lynne Barrett was at the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers' Fairhope, AL conference on March 22nd-23rd. She was on a panel on What Editors Want, the inside scoop on literary magazines, anthologies and more, and a panel on making your readings as good as your writing. Find out more at the GCACWT Fairhope conference website.
Lynne Barrett taught about plot and structure, and was also on the Editors and Agents panel, at the FGCU Sanibel Island Writer's Conference on Sanibel Island, Florida, November 8-11.
Lynne Barrett taught at the International Women's Writing Guild annual conference at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, July 6-13. She presented a generative fiction workshop: "Spinning Straw into Gold: Exploring Fiction’s Many Forms."
Barrett also presented at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference in Boston from April 6th-8th, 2018, including two sessions on Productive Revision, or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story. Find out more at the Muse and the Marketplace website.
Two of Weslea Sidon's poems from The Fool Sings were featured in the Women's History Month art show at the Southwest Harbor Public Library. The exhibition of art inspired by the writings of Maine women authors was open to the public at the library in Southwest Harbor, Maine, from March 5th-April 27th. See this article in the Mount Desert Islander for more.
Sidon also hosted a poetry jam at Coda Restaurant in Southwest Harbor on Thursday, March 15th. ​And the Red Headed Book Lover recently reviewed The Fool Sings — click here to read the review.
Lynne Barrett taught, and What Editors Want​ was available, at the International Women's Writing Guild summer conference in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from July 7th-14th.
Lynne Barrett taught at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference, which ran May 5th-7th, 2017, in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to her presentations, she was part of a panel on Spitballing, using brainstorming techniques to push initial story ideas into wilder and more provocative possibilities. The event was free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 22nd, from 10 AM to noon, Lynne Barrett gave a free writing workshop at the Palm Springs Public Library in Palm Springs, Florida. The workshop was for anyone who wishes to see their work published in magazines, and What Editors Want​ was available.
Lynne Barrett was a reader at the Noir at the Bar event as part of Miami Book Fair, 8 PM November 7th at the Porch. For more information, visit Lynne Barrett's website and the Miami Book Fair website.
Lynne Barrett appeared at the 2016 FGCU Sanibel Island Writers Conference November 3rd-6th, on Sanibel Island, Florida. She was on an Editors & Agents panel in addition to other presentations. What Editors Want will be available at the conference.
"Are you writing stories, poems, or essays, and seeking publication in magazines? Just beginning? Or trying to move your work up a notch?" If so, Lynne Barrett's workshop on What Editors Want is just for you! The one-day event was Saturday, September 17th, at Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida.
Lynne Barrett was at the International Women's Writing Guild Summer Conference with copies of What Editors Want for sale, July 15th-18th at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.
Lynne Barrett's What Editors Want: A Must-Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines was released July 15th! See the What Editors Want page for more information.
July 8 — Weslea Sidon read from The Fool Sings alongside fellow poets Christian Barter, Bob Quinn, and Paul Weiss at the Northeast Harbor Library at 5:30 PM.
Wesley Sidon's poem "Closure", from The Fool Sings​, was featured April 26 in the "Take Heart" column of the Portland Press Herald. Read the poem here.
October 23 — Weslea Sidon, author of The Fool Sings, read at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine.
July 25 — Weslea Sidon, author of The Fool Sings, and Lynne Barrett, author of Magpies, read from their poetry and fiction at the Bass Harbor Memorial Library in Bernard, Maine.
July 25 — Weslea Sidon, author of The Fool Sings, and Lynne Barrett, author of Magpies, taught a writers' workshop on Mount Desert Island at the Bass Harbor Memorial Library in Bernard, Maine. Using the overall theme of "Islands," the workshop drew upon topics including history, memory, myth, nature, community, isolation, boundaries and journeys.
July 2 — Weslea Sidon launched The Fool Sings, her new book of poetry, at the Southwest Harbor Public Library in Southwest Harbor, Maine. It was a smash hit! The room was packed, and the reading excellent.