The Cape Cod Writers Center proudly announces the keynote speakers and faculty members who will appear at our Fiftieth Conference on August 5-10, 2012 at the Resort and Conference Center of Hyannis.
Conference Schedule and Registration Information to be posted in mid-spring.
Keynote Speaker, Monday, August 6, 7:00 p.m.
Joseph Finder, Thriller Author and NY Times Best-Selling Author.
Keynote Speaker, Tuesday, August 7, 7:00 p.m.
Amy Caldwell, Executive Editor, Beacon Press
Keynote Speaker: Wednesday, August 8, 7:00 p.m.
Andre Dubus, New York Times, Best-Selling Novelist
OUR DISTINGUISHED FACULTY INCLUDE :
Matthew Pearl - New York Times Best-Selling Author, The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens and The Technologists.
Jule Selbo –Hollywood screenwriter and head of the MFA in Screenwriting Program at California State University, Fullerton
Lee Harrington - best-selling memoirist of Rex and the City
Michelle Hoover - novelist and recipient for 2010 Massachusetts Book Award “Must Read Pick, Forward magazine’s Best Literary book of 2010.
Pitchpalooza — the nationally acclaimed program by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry
Brian Schwartz -president KindleExpert.com and president-elect, Colorado Independent Publishers Association
Vivian Shipley — Award-Winning Poet, Distinguished Professor and Editor of Connecticut Review, nominated for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize
Benjamin Leroy: award-wining publisher of Tyrus Books, F & W Media
Karen Day, award-winning novelist for middle-school students
Sam Cornish, Boston Poet Laureate
Jamie Cat Callan — best-selling author and Massachusetts Cultural Council Awardee
Randall Peffer — acclaimed author of six crime novels, nonfiction books and national magazines
Gina Barreca — best selling author and syndicated humorist, professor of English at University of Connecticut
C.E. Lawrence –award-winning playwright and thriller writer
Reade Scott Whinnem — popular young adult novelist
Peter Drummey — Stephen T. Riley Librarian (director) Massachusetts Historical Society
Our Agents Include:
Marilyn Allen, Anne Hawkins, Stephany Evans, Gina Panettieri, Katharine Sands, Sorche Elizabeth Fairbank and Arielle Eckstut.
