This Saturday, January 9, 2016, Poets & Writers magazine will present a celebration of creativity at the Blanton Museum of Art. The magazine’s editors will be joined by authors (many of them local) for a series of lectures, workshops and multimedia presentations “exploring the literary imagination, innovation on the page, writing in multiple genres, and uncommon sources of inspiration.” This is a great opportunity to gather advice on publishing and connect with other authors.
Space is very limited! Learn more and register at pw.org/live. Enter the promo code BKPL_DX3 for a 10% discount.
Readers and panels include:
Ben Fountain, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Elizabeth McCracken, author of Thunderstruck & Other Stories, winner of the 2014 Story Prize
Naomi Shihab Nye, author and/or editor of more than thirty poetry collections, including 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Benjamin Percy (The Dead Lands)
Saeed Jones (Prelude to Bruise)
Matthew Gavin Frank (The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food)
David Searcy (Shame and Wonder)
Edward Carey (The Iremonger Trilogy)
Karan Mahajan (The Association of Small Bombs)
Alex Lemon (The Wish Book)
Carrie Fountain (Instant Winner)
Kirk Lynn (Rules for Werewolves)
Owen Egerton (How Best to Avoid Dying)
Susan Schorn (Smile at Strangers: And Other Lessons in the Art of Living Fearlessly)
Ebony Stewart (Love Letters to Balled Fists)
Agent Scott Hoffman (Folio Literary Management)
Editor Jill Meyers (A Strange Object)
Critic Michael Schaub (NPR, LA Times, The Millions)
BookPeople 
if only i lived in the us!!! for real, I’m being tempted to go ;P xxxxx
If only i could travel to all meetings but this is what you get for living on the other side of the world in a place Hardly known a little town of HOLYHEAD