62nd Big Apple Conference

The International Women’s Writing Guild Presents its 62nd

BIG APPLE CONFERENCE

Saturday, October 15, 2011:
“Writing Life: Why Memoir Matters”

Sunday, October 16, 2011:
Meet the Authors / Meet the Agents

Location

National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South (East 20th St. just east of Park Ave.)
New York City

Program

Saturday, October 15

WORKSHOP

“Writing Life: Why Memoir Matters” with Eunice Scarfe

The Wife of Lot: "Of course I looked back. How else can the story be told?"
    - From the Pillars of Salt collection by Eunice Scarfe

9:00 - 10:00 am: Registration
10:00 - 10:30 am: Introduction

10:30 am - 12:30 pm: The History of Memoir

• Memoir wasn’t born yesterday
• Memoir is not just another name for autobiography
• Oral and written
• The story of search and rescue operations for women’s story
• Urgency and necessity in writing your own memoir

12:30 - 1:45 pm: Lunch

1:45 - 4:45 pm: The Art of Memoir

• Nothing but the Truth:
  • Is it even possible?
  • The inescapable "lie" in life writing
• Choose Your Narrator: How to make a conscious choice
• Choose Your Design: Five (out of 101+) possible choices
• Edit your first draft: Five steps to take before letting your manuscript leave your hand

WORKSHOP DIRECTOR: Eunice Victoria Scarfe has been a teacher of memoir and fiction since finishing her MA in Creative Writing in 1990. She designed the first Women's Summer Writing Week at the University of Alberta in 1994, now nearing its 20th anniversary. She is director of Saga Seminars through which she offers consultation and workshops for women writers across North America (www.sagaseminars.com). Her prize-winning short stories have been widely published in anthologies and literary magazines since The Five O'Clock Train first appeared in Best Stories in Canada in the 1980s.

Sunday, October 16

MEET THE AUTHORS (10:00 am - 12:15 pm)

Recently published Guild authors will speak about their trials and tribulations. How they got themselves published—through an agent, via self-publishing, or by some other means—and how their books are currently being promoted. Questions are invited from the audience…

Lynda Aron, Write to Heal: A Guide to Transformation Through Writing, self-published 2011

Barbara Bixon (aka A R Alan), Do I Flaunt My Fat, Or Jump Off A Bridge?, Gray Rabbit Publishing, 2011

Laurie Boris, The Joke's On Me, 4RV Publishing, 2011

Talia Carner, Jerusalem Maiden: A Novel, Harper Paperbacks, 2011

Stephanie Kaplan Cohen, Additions and Subtractions, Plain View Press, 2011; Detectives Don't Wear Seat Belts: True Adventures of a Female P.I., Center Street, 2009

Jonna-Lynn Mandelbaum, Unpredictable Crossing, Outskirts Press, 2011

Clarissa McNair, Never Flirt with a Femme Fatale, Fedora Press, 2011

Lovera Miller, Womenopause: Feeling Femine, Fit and Fabulous in Four Weeks, O Books, 2010

Rosary O'Neill, Tropical Depression, Smashwords, 2011; Marilyn/God (Will Marilyn Monroe Get Into Heaven), script signing, Samuel French, Inc., 2011

Mingmei Yip, Song of the Silk Road, Kensington, 2011

BOOK FAIR OF BOOKS BY AUTHORS ON PANEL (12:15 - 12:45pm)

LUNCH (12:45 - 2:15 pm)

MEET THE AGENTS (2:30 - 6:00 pm)

Jenny Bent, The Bent Agency

Paul Cash (literary and publishing services)

Nicholas Croce, The Croce Agency

Meredith Kaffel, Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency

Jan L. Kardys, Black Hawk Literary Agency

Sheila Levine (publishing lawyer)

Amanda Mecke, A. Mecke Company

Rita Rosenkranz, Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency

Regina Ryan, Regina Ryan Publishing Enterprises

Katharine Sands, Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency

Roseanne Wells, Marianne Strong Literary Agency

REGISTRATION FEES

(Attend all Saturday and Sunday events and save up to $70.00 or pay for individual sessions) 

* Special Full Conference Discount (both days, all events)
Members: $200.00  Non-Members: $240
(a sumptuous buffet lunch is included on both days)

* Saturday, October 15 Only (9:00 am – 5:00 pm)
“Writing Life: Why Memoir Matters”
Members: $130  Non-Members: $150
(buffet lunch is included)

* Sunday, October 16 Only, Full-Day Discount (morning and afternoon sessions)
Members: $130.00  Non-Members $150.00
(buffet lunch is included)

* Sunday, October 16 Morning Only (10:00 am – 1:00 pm)
MEET THE AUTHORS Open House and Book Fair
Members: $50.00  Non-Members $60.00
(buffet lunch on-site may be requested for $25)

* Sunday, October 16 Afternoon Only (2:30  – 6:00 pm)
MEET THE AGENTS
Introductory Agent Forum and One-on-One Meeting with Agents
Members: $95.00  Non-Members $115.00

To register for the conference by mail, send a check to: IWWG, P.O. Box 810, Gracie Station, New York, NY 10028. Credit cards are not accepted at the door.

Registration fees are recorded as they are received. We do not mail out confirmation receipts. For confirmation call (212) 737-7536. (If you cancel, payments may be applied to a future IWWG event.)

IWWG Membership

* IWWG MEMBERSHIP: $55 (includes online subscription to the Network journal or $65 (print subscription). Members receive discounts on all IWWG workshop fees.

To join IWWG, send a check to: IWWG, P.O. Box 810, Gracie Station, New York, NY 10028.

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For further information, telephone or email the IWWG at (212) 737-7536;

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