|
 |

Friday & Saturday,
September 17 & 18, 2010
at Cuesta College in San
Luis Obispo
(Limited Enrollment)
|
Workshop Leader Biographies
|
 |
Clark, Kevin - Poet &
Professor
KEVIN CLARK’s
Self-Portrait with Expletives
won the 2009 Pleiades Press contest.
His poems
appear in such journals as the
Georgia, Iowa
and
Antioch
reviews,
Crazyhorse,
Gulf Coast,
and
The New York Quarterly.
A professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA, he was
awarded the Distinguished Teacher Award and his poetry
writing textbook, The Mind’s Eye, is often used
for college and poetry workshops, including Rainer
Writing Workshop in Tacoma, WA.
www.kevinclarkpoet.com. |
 |
Cook, Charlotte -
President/Story
Editor,
Komenar Publishing
CHARLOTTE COOK is president of
and story editor for KOMENAR Publishing with fifteen
years industry experience. A popular presenter at
nationwide conferences, she has a MFA in Creative
Writing. As a published writer, her practical business
experience has contributed to the success of her own
work and the award-winning novelists she has brought to
publication. She was featured in Writers Digest Magazine
in 2008.
www.komenarpublishing.com. |
 |
Duey, Kathleen
-
Author, K-YA/Adult Crossover
KATHLEEN DUEY
writes for kids K-high school, YA, and cross-over adult
readers. She has published over 70 award winning books
including The Unicorn's Secret, now being
repackaged to celebrate 10 years in print, and Skin
Hunger, a 2007 National Book Award Finalist. All
four books in her latest series, Fairies Promise,
are written and in various stages of production. She’s
writing a twitter novel found at
www.russet-one-wing.blogspot.com.
www.kathleenduey.com. |
 |
Gale, Kate
- Managing Editor, Red Hen Press,
Author & Poet
DR.
KATE GALE is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of
the Los Angeles Review and President of the
American Composers Forum, Los Angeles. She serves on
the boards of A Room of Her Own Foundation, the School
of Arts and Humanities of Claremont Graduate University
and Poetry Society of America. She is author of five
books of poetry (her most recent, Mating Season,
Tupelo Press), novels Lake of Fire, and Rio
de Sangre, and a libretto for an opera with composer Don
Davis.
www.kategale.com. |
 |
Huston, Paula
- Author, Fiction & Nonfiction
Spiritual
PAULA HUSTON’s books include Daughters of Song (Random House),
The Holy Way (Loyola), By Way of Grace
(Loyola), and Forgiveness (Paraclete). Her short
stories, essays and articles have appeared in numerous
journals and magazines. A National Endowment of the Arts
Fellow in Creative Writing, her work has been honored by
Best American Short Stories, the Catholic
Press Association, ForeWord Magazine, and
Best Spiritual Writing.
www.paulahuston.com. |
 |
Kutner, Merrily
- Author, Children's Picture Books
MERRILY KUTNER
wrote Down On the Farm and Z is for Zombie.
She trained then taught at The Institute of Children’s
Literature Training Program. She teaches her “magic”
picture book outlining method online at the UCLA
Extension Writer’s Program. A member of the Society of
Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and Children’s
Literature Council of Southern California, she is a
frequent presenter and also writes screenplays.
www.merrilykutner.com. |
 |
LeBow, Diane
- Travel Writer
DIANE
LEBOW, President of the Bay Area Travel Writers, is an
award winning travel writer and photographer, reviewed
at Salon.com, Seal Press, Examinar.com, Copley and
Creators’ Syndicate Wire Services, VIA Magazine,
Chicago Sun-Times, and other publications. She
won “Best Women’s Travel Writing for 2010”,
for her story, “Tea in Kabu: an Activist Witnesses a
Nation’s Struggle for Peace,” appearing in Travelers’
Tales.
www.dianelebow.com |
 |
Levine, Becky
- Author, Fiction, Nonfiction
& Critique Group Guide
BECKY
LEVINE is the author of The Writing & Critique Group
Survival Guide (Writer’s Digest, 2010). She also
writes fiction and nonfiction for children and teens,
and is currently working on a young-adult historical
novel. A product of Arroyo Grande schools, Becky
provides professional critique services to other writers
and speaks at writing clubs, conferences, and retreats.
www.beckylevine.com. |
 |
McAndish King, Laurie
- Travel Writer
LAURIE MCANDISH KING is
an award-winning travel writer and marketing
communications professional with a master’s degree in
online education. Founder and publisher of Travel
Writers News.com, she’s blogged since 2003.
Featured in The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2009
(Travelers’ Tales), she won three Solas Awards in
2008 and was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
Magazine.
www.lauriemcandishking.com.
|
 |
Miller, Jon James
- Screenwriter
JON
JAMES MILLER worked on cable documentaries for A&E,
Lifetime and The History Channel while writing
original feature length screenplays. His two historical
dramas and one dark comedy about the film industry were
optioned. In 2008, Garbo’s Last Stand won
Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s AAA Screenplay
Contest and in 2009 The Golden Brad Award for Drama
sponsored by the Movie Script Contest.
www.jonjamesmiller.com. |
 |
Preston, Marcia
- Author, General Fiction &
Mystery
MARCIA (M.K.) PRESTON) won the 2004 Mary Higgins
Clark Award for her mystery series
Song of the Bones
and
the
2004 Oklahoma Book Award in fiction. Currently, she’s
writing general fiction, including Trudy’s Promise,
The Piano Man,
The Butterfly House, a
number one hit in the UK and her latest The Wind
Comes Sweeping. She also edited and published
ByLine, a trade magazine for aspiring writers.
www.marciapreston.com. |
 |
Pritchard, Melissa
- Author, Novelist, Short Story,
Essayist & Journalist
MELISSA PRITCHARD is a novelist, short story writer,
essayist, and journalist recently featured in Oprah
Magazine. She wrote four short story collections:
Spirit Seizures, The Instinct for Bliss,
Disappearing Ingenue, and The Odditorium and
three novels. Awarded the Flannery O’Connor and Carl
Sandburg, her short stories are included in The
O'Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize,
and Best American Short Stories.
www.melissapritchard.com. |
 |
Reeves, Diane
Lindsey
- Author & Publisher,
Bright
Futures Press DIANE LINDSEY REEVES
is the author of the 50-book series, Career Ideas for
Kids and is publisher of Bright Futures
Press, producing
books
for children and young adults. Her newest interactive
book series are
Virtual Apprentice: What's It Really Like to Be a...
and Way Out Work. Diane collaborates with
publishing partners such as Ferguson Books, Prentice
Hall, and U.S. Departments of Labor and Education.
www.brightfuturespress.com. |
 |
Zackheim, Victoria
- Editor & Author,
Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
VICTORIA ZACKHEIM is the creator, contributing author, and
editor of four anthologies including The Face in the
Mirror,
For Keeps, The Other Woman
and He Said What?She
writes reviews for numerous publications, wrote and
developed a documentary, two produced screenplays and
her novel, The
Bone Weaver.
She teaches for the UCLA Extension Writers’
Program and is adapting The Other Woman into a
screenplay.
www.victoriazackheim.com.
*
* * * * *
|
 |
Salamacha, Judy
- Conference Director
JUDY
SALAMACHA worked in education, radio and
television, corporate marketing and owned a
public relations firm before settling on the
Central Coast to focus on a career in writing,
including directing her first writing
conference. She is currently the SLO
Tribune’s “By the Bay” columnist, and
formerly the reporter/photographer for the
SLO Tribune’s Sun Bulletin and publisher and
reporter for The Bay News. Judy is also
working on a debut historical fiction juvenile
novel with published nonfiction author Sandy
Mittelsteadt based on their Bakersfield, CA
heritage.
|
|
|
|
|
Contribute
to Conference Scholarship Fund
We are looking for area
businesses and individuals who are
interested in sponsoring
adult and student scholarships for
the Central Coast Writers' Conference XXIII.
For more information, call Nanette Pina,
(805) 546-3131 Ext 2294 or
email her at
npina@cuesta.edu.
*
* * * * *
Writers'
Conference Sponsors
|
Become a
Conference Sponsor
Donations from individuals
and business enable us to hire the very best presenters while
keeping tuition costs low.
Business sponsors receive many benefits in exchange for their
tax deductible donation, such as links on our Web site,
inserts in our conference packets, and much more. Donations of
products or services are also appreciated.
Contact
Judy Salamacha
at
jsalamacha@yahoo.com or
805.801.1422
* * * *
* *
|
|
Send your Writers' Conference
questions/comments/suggestions to:
Judy Salamacha
|
|