2010 "Other Words" Conference
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The sixth annual OTHER WORDS: A Conference of Literary Magazines, Independent Publishers, and Writers, will
be sponsored by the Florida Literary Arts Coalition and Flagler College this year at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida, November 4-6, 2010. On Thursday, November 4, the conference kicks off with a reading by local writers
William Slaughter and Laura Lee Smith.
Friday and Saturday events will include panels and readings scheduled from 9 am to 5:30 pm and then we will gather again for evening readings. One keynote event will feature Jeffrey Lependorf of CLMP
and SPD. The evening reading schedule will feature Wil Haygood on Friday night and Diane Wakoski and Therese Svoboda on Saturday. There will not be
any Sunday activities this year.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Writing about Something.” This general framework suggests that panels should have themes such as writing about art, writing about place, writing about
baseball, writing about physics, etc. This will allow participants who want to include readings of their poetry, fiction, or nonfiction in their presentation to do so as long as it follows the
thematic guidelines. There will also the more pragmatic, nuts and bolts panels about publishing, submitting work, agents, editors, small presses, teaching creative writing, collaboration, and
others.
This year's conference will also offer (for a small additional fee) creative writing workshops in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction and special sessions of workshops as outreach to underserved youth.
Our writing faculty, as of now, includes Terri Witek (poetry); Mark Powell (fiction); Lisa Zimmerman (poetry); Tania Rochelle (poetry). Our writing
staff (also for an additional fee) will offer individual manuscript consultations or advice for publishing one’s work.
Conference Goals
OUR GOAL:
to bring together writers, editors, agents, publishers, book sellers, grant administrators, directors of writers' colonies and retreats, and other interested folk in one place. We'll be talking about the how to of the literary arts: how to write it, make it, sell it, fund it, and nurture it.
OUR HOPE:
to bring together hundreds of the region's literary arts people and form a regional coalition that promotes our mutual literary efforts in as many ways as possible.
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