Announcing the 50th Cape Cod Writers Center Conference, August 5-10, 2012
In honor of our 50th anniversary, the Cape Cod Writers Center Conference will take place from August 5-10, 2010 at the Resort & Conference Center of Hyannis.
While we had many happy and productive years at Craigville, our increasing attendance, need for additional classrooms, state-of-the-art technology, and more convenient parking mandated our decision. The Resort & Conference Center of Hyannis has 233 air-conditioned rooms, extensive modern amenities, ample networking opportunities and unlimited free parking.
Conference participants can also enjoy the facility’s two swimming pools, gym, restaurants and free shuttle to Craigville Beach and the Hyannis ferries at no extra cost.
To celebrate our Golden Anniversary the Cape Cod Writers Center is hosting an outstanding staff of teachers — authors and poets, editors, media experts and agents listed below.
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
Peter Drummey — Stephen T. Riley Librarian (director) Massachusetts Historical Society
Our Agents Include:
Marilyn Allen, Anne Hawkins, Stephany Evans, Gina Panettieri, Katharine Sands and Sorche Elizabeth Fairbank
