“Books Make a Difference”
The Tallahassee Writers Association is teaming up with the Florida State University, the LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library System, the Florida Book Awards, the Friends of the FSU Libraries, and Barnes and Noble to bring you an incredible conference and book festival in 2010. Check our Web site regularly for details as they firm up. There is a fee to attend the writers conference sessions. All book festival events are free and open to the public, including special performances throughout the day (March 20) of the fantastic, incredible street magicians, The House of Flying Cards.
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Location: The Turnbull Center, FSU’s new conference center on Pensacola St. next to
the Civic Center.
Date: March 19-21, 2010
Keynote: Julianna Baggott
Featured Speakers: Mike Grunwald, Claudia Hunter Johnson, Robert Olen Butler, Lucia Robson, Jeff Shaara, Don Yaeger and many others!
Special Advanced Novel Workshop (Extra Fee): Donald Maass, NY agent and author of Writing the Breakout Novel and The Fire in Fiction.
More details on the conference!
More details on the book festival!
Schedule details are available for the above events.
Registration forms for conference and book festival tables.
Media Kit
• General press release on writers conference (registration fee required)
• General press release on book festival (free and open to public)
• Speaker bios and photos
• News brief
• Environment/nature press release
• History press release
• Trifold Brochure
Interested in speaking at a future Tallahassee Festival of Books and Writers Conference?
Contact conference@tallahasseewriters.net7 (manually remove the 7 before sending your message.)
Please send bio, website, and topics prepared to speak on. Note: no honorarium is offered for book festival appearances, but we do offer honorariums to out-of-town conference instructors when funds permit.
Would you like to be an event sponsor?
Be sure to check out the 2009 conference photos.
Advanced Novel Workshop
