April 12, 2014
The 27th Year of A Rally of Writers
With 16 breakout sessions, Authors’ Alley, book sales, manuscript reviews, agent. Lunch available. Rally Warm-Up, April 11, Schuler’s Books and Music, Eastwood Towne Center: “Importance of Early Words.”
Conference Center, West Campus, LCC
Lansing MI
Keynote: Fleda Brown
“Madness and Responsibility – The Writer’s Contrary Companions”
Author of eight collections of poetry, one of essays, and memoir, she has won a
Pushcart, the Felix Pollack Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and a Great Lakes Colleges Award.
16 Sessions
Fleda Brown: The Motion of Memoir
Andrea King Collier: Stepping It Up (adv. nf)
Teresa Crumpton: Dazzling Dialog
George Dila: Ending the Short Story
Anneliese Finke: Simple Gifts (poetry)
Denise Hill: Nonfiction for Newbies
Beverly Jenkins: Characters Who Breathe
Jen McConnel: YA vs NA
Rick Murcer: Marketing for Self-Publishing
Lev Raphael: Avoiding Bad Sex (Writing)
Lori Nelson Spielman: Landing An Agent
Jeff Vande Zande: Screenplay Format 101
Some sessions will be repeated
$75 in advance
(Students: $55)
Available: Manuscript Review by Teresa Crumpton
Alice Speilburg, literary agent
Lunch w/Networking, $15
Rally Warm-Up: April 11, 7:00 pm Free
Early Reading Issues
Panel discussion with Thais Rousseau (Early Child Literacy & Youth Services, CADL); Suzanne Sawyer (RIF and LCC library); Randy Riley (MeL, Michigan Library); plus LIsa Preston, story performer
Schuler Books, Eastwood Mall, Lansing
Details at
http://www.arallyofwriters.com
or 517-372-3385
Funded in part by Gibson’s Bookstore, Lansing Community College, and the
Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities