Paul Atreides

Next Monday’s meeting, March 30, our Guest Speaker will be Laura Stokes. She’ll be explaining how to get your ebook into the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District system. You won’t want to miss this meeting!

Martha Engber, author, speaker, and presenter, sends this pre-conference treat: Growing Great Characters From the Ground Up, in Word document format. HowLoveCharacters4.15

Heritage Park Senior Center is hosting a monthly platform for local authors to come in and talk about their published works.  If you, or anyone in your group, is interested in discussing their work at HPK, please email Matt Hortt, Head of Adult Services, at  mhortt@hdpl.org for more information and to schedule an appearance.   … Read more

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is open for submissions. Now in its eighth year, the award is an internationally renowned prize presented by Aesthetica Magazine and judged by industry experts including Arifa Akbar, literary editor of The Independent. Prizes include £500 and publication in an anthology of new writing, giving you the chance to showcase … Read more

The Black Mountain Institute will host authors Jamaica Kincaid and Caryl Phillips in a panel titled “Crossing the Black Atlantic,” moderated by UNLV Assistant Professor Julia Lee. The conversation will cover how each examines the Caribbean diaspora, the history of the Altantic slave trade, and the questions of racial and national identity in their work. The March … Read more

Huge thanks to Drew Cohen for speaking to us last night. The slides he intended to utilize are attached here in pdf format for download. I hope all our published authors took advantage and grabbed a Consignment Application from the table. The Writer’s Block bookstore is doing much good in the way of community education, … Read more

Coming up on May 2nd… If you are interested in a Vendor Table, now’s the time to register. All Vendors should submit application forms as early as possible.  The festival has many requests for new and previous vendors and exhibitors who would like to participate.  Booth spaces are 10’ x 12’. Vendors are requested to … Read more

“Paws and Reflect: Tales of Tails” is our first annual short story contest. The top 10 stories will be featured in an anthology by Muddy Pig Press. The prompt is: Pets hold a special place in our hearts. They are our companions, our best friends, our children, even our therapists at times. Is there a … Read more

Attached to Julie’s email about the Spring Fling was the following information on getting your book(s) included in the Library’s collection: Many of you have been asking about how to get your book into the library so that readers can check them out with their library cards.  Attached is a two-page set of instructions called … Read more

Hi, Spring Fling Book Fair authors! Our Spring Fling Book Fair on March 14 is almost upon us!  You will be receiving your table confirmation numbers and last-minute updates by March 4.  If you have not received registration & rules info from the last email, please let me know and I will resend that information … Read more

Cahaba River Literary Short Story Competition is open for submissions through October 31, 2015. Short stories may be on “Home for the Holidays” and should not have been previously published, or posted on a website or blog. Stories should also not be under consideration for publication or accepted for publication elsewhere. Please include your name, … Read more

Authors and Screenwriters Martin Luther famously said, “If you want to change the world, pick up a pen and write.”  And that’s exactly what we hope to accomplish at the StoryTellers Expo next month – March 20-22, 2015. The Northern California Writers (NCW) hope to change the world by inspiring universal stories of love, hope, … Read more