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Writers' Conference 2007
June 7, 2007
Described as “the best one-day writers’ conference in the land,” over 70 distinguished authors, agents and publicists will discuss how to succeed in the literary world. Cynthia Ozick and Sara Nelson, Editor-in-Chief of Publisher’s Weekly, will serve as keynote speakers. Joining them will be a who’s who of literature, from Mary Higgins Clark to Claire Messud. As always, there will also be a networking reception following the day’s discussion panels.
When: Thursday, June 7, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Where: Marymount Manhattan College (221 E. 71st Street, NYC)
Cost: $175 if registered before June 1, $195 afterwards. Lunch and reception included.
Register now! Call (212) 774-4810.
Special rate if you register for Conference and Writing Intensives at the same time! Total cost is $525 before June 1, $585 afterwards.
WRITERS' CONFERENCE 2007 SCHEDULE
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration and coffee
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. SESSION I
Editors Panel
Moderator: Pola Rosen - Editor-in-Chief, Education Update
Panelists: Elly Tatum - Editor-in-Chief, The Amsterdam News
Susan Slesin – Editor, O at Home
Dana Cowin – Editor-in-Chief, Food & Wine Magazine
Cynthia Parsons – Features Editor, New York Daily News
Betty Sargent – Editor-in-Chief, William Merrow Publishers
Nonfiction Panel
Moderator: Dr. Anne Renee Testa – Psychologist, Author, The Bully in Your Relationship: Stand Up to Emotional Abuse and Get The Love You Deserve.
Panelists: Bill Avery – Journalist, TV host, Teacher
Letty Cottin Pogrebin – Founder of Ms. magazine, Author of Three Daughters
David Koeppel – Freelance writer
Bob Morris – Columnist, The New York Times
Katherine Livingston – Author, Highrise, Lowdown
Literary Agents I
Moderator: Laura Yorke – Agent, The Carol Mann Agency
Panelists: Lori Perkins – Agent, Lori Perkins Associates
Jenny Rappaport – Agent, Lori Perkins Associates
Diana Finch – President, Diana Finch Literary Agency
Peter Rubie – President, Peter Rubie Literary Agency
10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. KEYNOTE: SARA NELSON
Sara Nelson is the Editor-in-Chief of Publisher’s Weekly. She is renowned for helping to modernize the publication and for introducing the magazine’s Quill awards, whose winners are determined by the public. Before taking the position at PW, she was a publishing columnist for the New York Observer and a Contributing Editor at Glamour magazine. Ms. Nelson’s memoir, So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading, was described by Augusten Burroughs as “smart, witty, [and] utterly original.”
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. SESSION II
Memoir
Moderator: Sidney Offit – Author, Memoir of the Bookie’s Son
Panelists: Debby Applegate – Author, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Sir Harold Evans – Former Editor, The Sunday Times, Random House; Author, The American Century
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt – Author, Me and DiMaggio: A Baseball Fan Goes in Search of His Gods
Daphne Merkin – Contributing Writer, The NY Times Magazine and Author of Enchantment: A Novel
Patricia Volk – Author, White Light, All It Takes, and The Yellow Banana
Carole O'Malley Gaunt - Author, Hungry Hill: A Memoir
Fiction I
Moderator: Katherine Mosby – Author, Twilight: A Novel
Panelists: Barbara Taylor Bradford – Author, The Ravenscar Dynasty
Marisha Pessl – Author, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Heidi Julavits – Author, The Uses of Enchantment
Tama Janowitz – Author, Area Code 212: New York Days, New York
Sheile Kohler – Author, Cracks and Crossways
Publicity
Moderator: Ben Frank – Ben Frank Promotions Corp.
Panelists: Gabrielle Brooks – Director of Promotions, Alfred A. Knopf Inc.
Donna Hill – Author, Publicist
Miriam Silverberg - Publicist
Clare Graff – Publicity Manager, HarperCollins
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. GRAND LUNCHEON KEYNOTE: CYNTHIA OZICK
Cynthia Ozick is the author, most recently, of The Din in the Head, a collection of critical literary essays. Her essay collection Quarrel and Quandary won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award, and her collection Fame & Folly was a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent novel, Heir to the Glimmering World, was a New York Times Notable Book and a Book Sense pick and was chosen by NBC’s Today Book Club.
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. SESSION III
Mystery Panel
Moderator: Sharon Johnson – Editor and freelancer with over 2,000 articles published
Panelists: Carol Higgins Clark – Author, Santa Cruise and Hitched
Donald Westlake – Author, Ask the Parrot
Mary Higgins Clark – Author, Santa Cruise and Ghost Ship: A Cape Cod Story
Linda Fairstein – Author, Bad Blood and other Alex Cooper crime novels
Children’s Panel
Moderator: Trish Marx – Author, Touching The Sky: The Flying Adventures Of Wilbur And Orville Wright
Panelists: Judy Gitenstein – Author, Alvin Ailey and Summer Camp
Denise Cronin – Art Director at Viking Children's Books
Sally Cook – Author, Hey Batta Batta Swing!: The Wild Old Days of Baseball
Humor Panel
Moderator: Lewis Burke Frumkes – Author, How to Raise Your IQ by Eating Gifted Children
Panelists: Ben Cheever – Author, Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square One in a Service Economy
Pamela Grayson – Free-lance writer, Columnist
Bruce Jay Friedman – Author, A Father’s Kisses, Sexual Pensees
David Steinberg – Comic, TV director (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Writer (Academy Awards)
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. SESSION IV
Birth of a Book
Moderator: Jerry Gross – Freelance Editor, Book Director
Panelists: Pam Jenoff – Author, The Kommandant’s Girl
Rachel Kahan – Senior Editor, GP Putnam & Sons
Scott Hoffman – Literary agent, Folio Literary Management, LLC
Ed Solowitz – Sales Executive, Harcourt Trade
Fiction II
Moderator: Meg Wolitzer – Author, The Position, The Wife, Surrender, Dorothy
Panelists: Claire Messud – Author, The Emperor’s Children
Karen Russell - Author, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Susan Isaacs - Author, Past Perfect
Susan Shapiro Barash - Author, Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry
Literary Agents II
Moderator: Katherine Sands – Editor, Making the Perfect Pitch: Advice from 45 Top Book Agents
Panelists: Rita Rosenkranz – Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency
Sherry Bykovsky – Sherry Bykovsky Associates
Janet Reid – Literary Agent
Meredith Bernstein – Meredith Bernstein Literary Agency
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. NETWORKING RECEPTION
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