Alice Adams

The Long And The Short Of It

Alice Adams, novelist and short story writer, is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and her stories have been included in many O’Henry collections. Novels: Rich Rewards, Listening to Billy, Families and Survivors. Short story collections: Beautiful Girl, To See You Again.

Kate (Shirley) Coscarelli

How to Find Fame and Fortune - A Novel Approach

Long Beach’s own Kate (Shirley) Coscarelli will share the experiences of writing and publishing a first novel.

Louise De Grave

Breaking The Silence: Writing Your Autobiography

Louise De Grave, author of From This Day Forward: Staying Married When No One Else Is And Other Reckless Acts, and Karen Kenyon, author of Sunshower, team up to discuss the writing of their own stories, encouraging others to do the same.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Becoming a Writer

Our luncheon speaker is Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of the enormously popular A Woman of Independent Means (the basis for a major motion picture starring Jill Clayburgh) and Life Sentences, discussing her personal writing evolution.
Los Angeles Times: “At an age when far too many people are writing far too much about far too little and usually doing it badly, a novel comes along to restore our faith in language and good conscience.”

Karen Kenyon

Breaking The Silence: Writing Your Autobiography

Karen Kenyon, author of Sunshower, teams up with Louise De Grave to discuss the writing of their own stories, encouraging others to do the same.

Barbara Kroll

‘Twas A Dark And Stormy Night…

Barbara Kroll, humorist, teacher, essay contest enterer, researcher, and first-runner up in the Bulwer-Lytton contest for writing the “worst” opening sentence.

Inez Maury

My Mother and I Are Growing Strong…

And My Mother the Mail Carrier are the books written by Inez Maury for children…fresh, imaginative, and “rooted in today’s social reality.” She will be joined by Edythe Mc Govern.

Edythe Mc Govern

They’re Never Too Young for Books…

Edythe Mc Govern, Chairman Valley College English Department, and author of They’re Never Too Young for Books, joins Inez Maury to discuss writing books for children and the need for them to be “read to.”

Gloria Naylor

1983 American Book Award Winner

Gloria Naylor, author of The Women of Brewster Place, an outstanding first novel “in seven stories.”

Roberta Smoodin

Go Anywhere, Do Anything, Be Anyone - The Magic of Writing

Roberta Smoodin, author of Presto and Ursus Major, talks about the liberation inherent in the act of writing. Ms. Smoodin is currently working on a novel concerned with the problems of biography and love triangle; and illusion and reality.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Genre-Straddling For Fun And Profit

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro writes science fiction, mystery, historical as well as juvenile fiction, and is the author of The Saint Germain Chronicles and The God Forsaken, and many others.

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