Speakers

Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford

Author of Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. Film version stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Sarsgaard.

Sessions
  • Featured Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
  • Private Workshop Consultation with UCF Veterans
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Bob Morris
Bob Morris

Author of The Man with the Fish on His Foot; Baja Florida, and Gut Check

Sessions
  • Creating E-Books
  • Writing Crime Fiction
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Bob Shacochis
Bob Shacochis

National Book Award Winner, author of Easy in the Islands, The Immaculate Invasion, and Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love and former columnist for GQ and contributing editor for Outside and Harper's.

Sessions
  • Featured Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
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Jacki Lyden
Jacki Lyden

NPR Correspondent and Host and Author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, a memoir.

Sessions
  • Featured Reading, Q&A, and Book signing
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Joe David Bellamy
Joe David Bellamy

Author of Kindred Spirits, Superfiction, and Suzi Sinzinnati.

Sessions
  • The Next Decade in Literary Publishing.
  • Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
  • Individual Manuscript Consultations Available
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Robert Venditti
Robert Venditti

Author of The Surrogates, a graphic novel, which became the hit film with Bruce Willis.

Sessions
  • Writing for Comics and Graphic Novels
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Amy Gorelick
Amy Gorelick

Sessions
  • Book Publishing Process and the Realities of Trying to Publish a Book in a Recession Economy
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Darlin' Neal
Darlin' Neal

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David James Poissant
David James Poissant

Sessions
  • How to Launch a Career in Writing
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Ihosvani
Ihosvani "Geo" Rodriguez

Sessions
  • The making of a video star: Making the newsroom multimedia transition
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Ilyse Kusnetz
Ilyse Kusnetz

Sessions
  • How to Launch a Writing Career
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Ira Sukrungruang
Ira Sukrungruang

Sessions
  • How to Become an Editor (with Katherine Riegel)
  • Reading, Q&A, and book signing
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Jon Busdeker
Jon Busdeker

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Katherine Riegel
Katherine Riegel

Sessions
  • How to Become an Editor (with Ira Sukungruang)
  • Chapbook 101
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Leslie Salas
Leslie Salas

Dean's Fellow in UCF's Creative Writing MFA program and a Managing Editor for The Florida Review

Sessions
  • Individual Graphic Narrative Manuscript Consultations (for beginners)
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Nathan Holic
Nathan Holic

Sessions
  • How to Create Comics (AKA Graphic Narrative)
  • Individual Manuscript Consultations Available
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Paige St. John
Paige St. John

Sessions
  • Prize-winning Journalism in the Era of Austerity
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Pat Rushin
Pat Rushin

Sessions
  • Screenwriting Basics (with Peter Telep)
  • Individual Manuscript Consultations Available
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Rick Campbell
Rick Campbell

Sessions
  • How to strategies for entering poetry book contests
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Scott Joseph
Scott Joseph

Sessions
  • How to Write About Food and Make It Your Career
  • How to Create a Web Presence as a Writer
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Vanessa Blakeslee
Vanessa Blakeslee

Sessions
  • Launching a Writing Career
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