Senior News July, 2001 Vol. 20. No.  7

 

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Crescent City
First Northcoast Redwoods Writers Conference scheduled in September
by Virginia Hinkley

On the 28th, 29th and 30th of September 2001, Crescent City will host the first Northcoast Redwoods Writers Conference. With the help of my conference director, Brian Bieber, I have been working on this project since July 2000. In addition to 24 workshops, we will offer a variety of social activities, and we are looking forward to a huge success.

We are honored to have Catherine Ryan Hyde as our keynote speaker for Friday evening Sept. 28. Catherine wrote Pay it Forward, and the book was released as a movie in October 2000. She has sold the movie rights to two other books and has won many awards for her short stories.

On Saturday evening we have the honor of presenting another keynoter, Rick Francona. Rick was General Schwarzkopf's personal interpreter and customs advisor during the Persian Gulf War. He is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and served as a Middle East specialist. His assignments included the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency. After the Gulf War the Air Force Press asked him to write about the war through his eyes, and as a result his book Ally to Adversary was published.

Also on the agenda are workshop leaders:

* Dave Congalton, author of Three Cats, Two Dogs, radio talk show host, teacher, and the director of Cuesta College Annual Writers Conference in San Luis Obispo.

* Dan Logan, coauthor of Windows '98 Made Easy Computer Resource Guide and several chap books on publishing and selling your books on the Internet. He also teaches at the Cuesta College extension in Cambria, California.

* Sara Jameson, a poet, nature writer, photographer, and freelance writer. She teaches freelance writing and poetry at the Rogue Community College in Grants Pass, Oregon.

* Bill Doody, a teacher of Creative Writing at Rogue Community College and a poet. He also owns a used bookstore in Grants Pass, Oregon, called The Yellow Pages.

* David Rains Wallace, a nature writer who does a lot of work for the National Parks and has been published in National Geographic. David has won several awards for his nature writing.

* Wayne Hendrickson, author and self publisher of Don't Tell...the parents. Wayne is a graduate of Del Norte High School and is currently teaching in a college in the Bay Area.

There will be a publisher and an agent present, so all of you writers who are struggling to find a publisher or agent will have an opportunity to attend their workshops and meet with them at the roundtable sessions.
We want to involve our youth in this project so we have arranged to have the Crescent City eighth through twelfth graders participate in a writers contest. The winner of each grade will be invited to read their winning essays at the conference and also attend the workshops and roundtable sessions.

For more information phone Brian Bieber 464-3670 or e-mail him at Babsbieber@ aol.com. Or call Virginia Hinkley 464-9400 or e-mail her at v.hinkley@verizon.net.