Conferences & Workshops
What's Happening
Special to the Edge
by Ernest M. Garza
This page will try to keep you up to date on events of interest for you writers. We will list conferences, seminars, readings and contests. We will list them locally, regional and nationally. If you know of any items of interest that we can pass on to the readers, please call or e-mail Ernest Garza (emgarza_2000@yahoo.com).
Registrations forms are now available to attend Returning the Gift X/Native
Writers' Circle of the Americas IX, to be held October 11-Oct 14, 2001 in
Norman, Oklahoma.More information can be obtained at <www.ou.edu/cas/nas> or by calling
Shalia Newby at 405-325-2312.Pre registration (cheaper rates) are due by Sept 21.
The Writer Friends of the San Antonio Public Library
DR. DAVID BREEDEN
SAN ANTONIO, TX-The Writer Friends of the San Antonio Public Library will hold its fourth quarterly meeting of 2001 at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 13, 2001 at the Central Library, 600 Soledad, San Antonio, Texas 78205. The phone number for library information is (210) 207-2500.
Published novelist, poet, and screenwriter, Dr. David Breeden, (originally scheduled for the Sept. 11, meeting, which was canceled) will speak on "Crossing the Genre Lines in Fiction and Screenwriting or Busy Bees Love Cross-Pollination." He will discuss plot structure in novels and screenplays, some realities of the movie business, turning a screenplay into a novel and vice versa, the not-so-subtle differences of point of view, tense, and subplot, and his big mistakes.
The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, call Dawn Teel-Friedman at (210) 820-3745.
