Tallahassee Writers Association

Tallahassee Book Festival and Writers Conference Holiday Inn and Monroe St. Conference Center May 4-6, 2012 Steve Berry - Keynote speaker Also featuring: David-Matthew Barnes Philip Deaver N. M. Kelby Pat MacEnulty Jessica Morrell Mark Mustian Speaker bios Tentative schedule 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?	February Calendar 2 TWA Board Meeting. 9 Writing Our Place in the World: Nature Memoir with Susan Cerulean, 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FSU, lasts six weeks on Thursdays. 16 TWA General Meeting. 6:30 p.m. American Legion Hall. Speaker: Richard Edward Noble. Richard is a freelance writer and award winning columnist. He is the author of numerous books, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His newspaper column has received first place for humor from the Florida Press Association.His subject will be "My Personal Perils and Intrigue in Writing Creative Non-Fiction." 16 Julie Bettinger at Tallahassee Hstorical Society meeting, Brokaw-McDougall House, 7 p.m. Topic: "Tallahassee: A Downtown With Greek Roots." March Calendar 15 TWA General Meeting. 6:30 p.m. American Legion Hall. Speaker: Mark Mustian, author of critically acclaimed The Gendarme, which focuses on an old man’s memories and dreams of the forced march of Armenian women and children from Turkey has been named as a finalist for the Dayton International Library Peace Prize and was the Gold Florida Book Award winner for general fiction. The Tallahassee Writers Association has a new logo designed by Vicky Laurienzo.	NOTICE: Tallahassee Writers Association has changed its mailing address. Effective immediately all correspondence should be sent to the following address: Tallahassee Writers Association 2910 Kerry Forest Parkway D-4-357 Tallahassee, FL 32309. Contact talwritersassn at gmail dot comwith any questions. The Seven Hills Review 2012 Now available through amazon.com. It offers the award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from the Seven Hills Literary and Penumbra Poetry and Haiku Contests, sponsored by the Tallahassee Writers Association in 2011. If you are unable to purchase copies from amazon for some reason, limited numbers of the Review will be available at TWA meetings. The journal is also available at The Bookshelf, 126 S. Broad St., Thomasville, GA. 2011 Seven Hills winners 2011 Penumbra Poetry and Haiku winners Download the January 2012TWA newsletter! Thanks to Marci Elliott and Vicky Laurienzo for their work on this. Congratulations! Ted Simmons recently published his newest book, Hear My Faint Cry. It is the story of an actual murder that took place more than 20 years ago near Tallahassee. Ted spent a year or more of meticulous research of the murder and the events surrounding it, and he interviewed first-hand the convicted killers and the victim’s survivors and families. CyPress Publications of Tallahassee published the book, which is available at www.amazon.com. TWA member, K. B. Schaller shows off her 2011 Florida Publishers Association President's Book Awards winner's Gold Medal, Young Adult Fiction at awards banquet for her novel, Gray Rainbow Journey. Her website is www.KBSchaller.com. ______________________________ Why join TWA? Watch this video! ____________________________________

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