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In celebration of Labor Day weekend, Alys Beach has partnered with Escape to Create to present 
‘Alys Sound’ with Charles Norman Mason
on Saturday, September 4, from 4 to 6 pm along the pedestrian path at Alys Beach.

FALL WRITERS' CONFERENCE
 September 22 – 25, 2010

Rosemary Beach, Florida
Registration Fee by September 1, 2010 - $150
Registration Fee after September 1, 2010 - $175


 
FEATURED AUTHORS
    ERIN BELIEU is the author of three poetry collections, all from Copper Canyon Press: Infanta (1995), which was selected for the National Poetry Series and chosen as one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post Book World and Library Journal; One Above & One Below (2001), winner of the Midland Authors Prize and the Ohioana Prize, and her recent collection, Black Box, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Belieu's poems have appeared in many places, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review and Tin House. She also publishes prose essays on a variety of subjects and has worked as an editor for a number of literary magazines. Belieu is currently the director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University
     
   JOHN DUFRESNE is the author of two story collections and four novels, Louisiana Power & Light, Love Warps the Mind a Little, Deep in the Shade of Paradise most recently Requiem, Mass., and two books on writing fiction, The Lie That Tells a Truth and Is Life Like This?  He wrote a full-length play, Trailerville, which was produced at the Blue Heron Theatre in New York in 2005, the screenplay for the award-winning short film The Freezer Jesus, and  the screenplay for To Live and Die in Dixie (with Don Papy)  which was released this June.  www.johndufresne.com Dufresne  teaches creative writing at Florida International University.
    
 
     DAPHNE KALOTAY is the author of the acclaimed fiction collection CALAMITY AND OTHER STORIES (Doubleday 2005/Anchor 2006), which includes stories from Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Good Housekeeping, AGNI, The Literary Review and Prairie Schooner.  A Boston Herald and Vancouver Sun “Editor’s Choice,” CALAMITY was also and Poets & Writers “Notable Book” and was short-listed for the 2005 Story Prize.   Her novel RUSSIAN WINTER (HarperCollins 2010) was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and will be published in September, with seventeen foreign editions already in progress.  Daphne has received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Vassar College, Escape-to-Create and the La Napoule Foundation and has been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Ledig House.  She holds an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Literature, both from Boston University, and has taught fiction writing at Boston University, Skidmore College, and Middlebury College.  Visit her online at www.daphnekalotay.com
     
     

DAVID MAGEE is an award-winning columnist and the non-fiction author of eight books, including The South is Round  and How Toyota Became #1.   His previous books including MoonPie, called "essential reading" by Library Journal, and Turnaround, about the remarkable leadership of Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn, is published in seven languages and has sold almost 100,000 copies worldwide. His most recent book, The Education of Mr. Mayfield was completed during his 2009 residency with Escape to Create in Seaside, Florida.  Also, the co-owner of Chattanooga's largest independent bookstore Rock Point Books and the founder of Jefferson Press, a niche publisher distributed nationally by Independent Publishers Group,  www.david-magee.com

 
     
     BRAD WATSON was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He studied at Mississippi State University and received an MFA from the University of Alabama. He has been a journalist and English instructor, as well as ditch digger, carpenter, ad writer, garbage truck driver, and many other odd jobs. He has taught at the University of Alabama, Harvard University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of West Florida, and Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi). His short fiction has been published in Story, Black Warrior Review, Greensboro Review, The Oxford American, Narrative, The New Yorker, Granta, and other magazines. His first short story collection, Last Days of the Dog-Men, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His first novel, The Heaven of Mercury, won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Brad currently teaches at the University of Wyoming, and his most recent collection is Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives.
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