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Keynote Speaker—George Hirsch

The Anhinga Writers’ Studio proudly announces that the 2010 Summer Workshops will be keynoted by publisher George Hirsch, whose talent and drive have helped him launch magazines and writers’ careers with equal generosity.

Hirsch is currently the publisher of La Cucina Italiana, the English language edition of Italy’s oldest and largest food/cooking magazine. It is a sumptuous publication that celebrates Italian cuisine and lifestyle and has shown major growth during the past three years. Working in both New York and Italy keeps him on the run. And that’s just the way he likes it. “On the run” is the only way to describe the indefatigable Hirsch. He was the founding publisher of New York magazine in 1968 and New Times magazine, known for its investigative reporting in the 1970s. He founded and published The Runner and then took the helm of Runner’s World when the two magazines merged in 1987 and he joined Rodale Inc. At Rodale, in addition to being the worldwide publisher of Runner’s World, he was the publishing director of Men’s Health magazine and the director of international magazines until his “retirement” in 2004. Hirsch currently serves on the board of the on-line magazine Salon.

As a man who claimed little natural athletic ability, Hirsch took his professional tenacity and discipline and developed himself into a formidable marathon runner with more than thirty marathons to his credit. In the autumn of 2009, at age 75, he completed the 26.2 mile Chicago Marathon, warming up for the 40^th Anniversary ING New York City Marathon a short three weeks later. He won his age group in both. Oh, and by the way, he is a founder the New York City Marathon and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the New York Road Runners.

Larry Eder, a former writer for Hirsch, quotes him: “Publishing is about relationships.” On Wednesday evening, July 28, 2010, you are cordially invited to sit down for an informal evening of “Conversations with George Hirsch,” where relationships will form and your life as a writer will be deepened and enriched. (And then we’ll probably all go out for a run, where we will not be able to keep up with the man.)

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Note: George and Shay Hirsch are extremely active in charities. Among their favorites are Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, Shoe4Africa, and Team for Kids.

George and Shay Hirsch’s causes for your consideration

Literary Agent—Anne Hawkins

Anne Hawkins is a senior literary agent with John Hawkins & Associates, Inc., New York. Founded in 1893 by Paul R. Reynolds, it is the oldest literary agency in the country. She works with mainstream literary and commercial fiction, including mystery, suspense, thrillers, historicals, and women’s fiction, and a wide variety of non-fiction, particularly history, politics, biography, science, natural history, medicine, and women’s and family issues. A number of her books have gained distinction through award nominations, book-to-film contracts, significant foreign rights sales, major book club selections, or placement on The New York Times bestseller list. Anne Hawkins is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives.

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Workshops: Anatomy of a Book Deal: What Every Writer Needs to Know; Choosing a Career Partner: The Author-Agent Relationship (with Mary Anna Evans)

2010 FACULTY

Victor Bockris (Poetry) 

Victor Bockris is often called the “poet laureate of the New York underground.” He has been a member of a number of poetry groups, including the Philly Three. His career has been based on collaborations in poetry, the interview, photography and prose books including The Poetry of Muhammad Ali, With William Burroughs, and Warhol: the Biography. He ran his own poetry press, Telegraph Books, where he published a new generation of New York poets which developed out of minimalism into the neo beat punk movement. After two and a half years woodshedding in Gainesville he is about to release his long awaited opus – PUNK GIRLS. 

Workshops: Writing and Reading Poetry.   

Peter Bowerman (Nonfiction)

Peter Bowerman, veteran “commercial” freelancer and popular business coach, is the self-publishing author of the award-winning Well-Fed Writer titles on lucrative commercial freelancing (www.wellfedwriter.com). He chronicled his self-publishing success (60,000 copies of his books in print and a full-time living for eight-plus years) in the award-winning 2007 release, The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living. (www.wellfedsp.com) His books have been selections for the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Quality Paperback Book Club, the Writer’s Digest Book Club, and they have been recognized as finalists for the Benjamin Franklin Award and ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year. He has published over 250 articles and editorials, leads seminars on writing and is a professional coach on both commercial freelancing business start-up and self-publishing. Learn more about his work at www.wellfedwriter.com.

Workshop: Staying “Well-Fed” in a Changing Writing World: Six Strategies for Ongoing and Enduring Business Growth; The Well-Fed Writer: Breaking into the Lucrative Field of “Commercial” Freelancing; The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living  

Bev Browning (Fiction/Nonfiction)

Beverly G. Browning wants to tell you she’s a well-known ghostwriter, but in point of fact, a “well known ghostwriter” is an oxymoron. Just trust us. Those who need to know, know her well. She’s been writing and editing professionally for more than twenty years with more than 100 books notched in her belt. In addition to ghosting and editing, she also has a freelance practice with clients that range from the United States Olympic Committee to Hebraic scholars. She and her authors have titles with Random House, Rodale, Crown, Tall Oak Press, Bridge-Logos Publishers, and Zondervan, among other publishers of books and journals. Although Bev doesn’t yet have a Pulitzer Prize on her mantel, she is one of the only authors in the world to have successfully negotiated a pony into a contract in lieu of full fee. Learn more at www.beverlybrowning.com, www.anhingawriters.org, and http://onemoretimebev.blogspot.com.

Workshops: We Are All Anhinga Here: Hear Us! (with Mary Anna Evans and Diana Tonnessen); Writing Humor; Shimmer; The Writing Life (with Mary Anna Evans and Diana Tonnessen)  

Rick Campbell (Poetry)

Rick Campbell is the director of Anhinga Press and the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and he teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. His newest book of poems is Dixmont, from Autumn House Press. His other books are The Traveler’s Companion (Black Bay Books, 2004); and Setting The World In Order (Texas Tech 2001) which won the Walt McDonald Prize, and A Day’s Work (State Street Press 2000). He’s won a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and two poetry fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. He’s published poems and essays in many journals including The Georgia Review, The Florida Review, Prairie Schooner, and many others. He was born on the Ohio River 20 miles downriver from Pittsburgh and lives with his wife and daughter in Gadsden County, Florida. Learn more at Anhinga Press.

Workshops: The Three Minute Drill: Mindboggling, Ultra-fantastic, Sure-fire Exercises to Get Your Poem Off to a Quick Start; Shape Shifting: Using Formal Structures to Shift the Shape and Meaning of a Poem

Rosemary Daniell (Nonfiction and Poetry)

Rosemary Daniell’s most recent book is Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women’s Lives, based on Zona Rosa, the series of life-changing writing and living workshops she founded 29 years ago and now leads all over the country and in Europe. She is known as one of the best writing coaches in the country: almost 80 Zona Rosans have become published authors. Her first book on Zona Rosa, The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way, was recently re-released. Rosemary’s other books include her revolutionary memoir, Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep South. Along with her second memoir, Sleeping with Soldiers, it was a forerunner of the current memoir trend. She is the author of four other books of poetry and prose. Her features and reviews have appeared in magazines and papers from Harper’s Bazaar to The New York Times Book Review to Mother Jones. She has also been a guest on national radio and television shows, including Merv Griffin, Donahue, The Diane Rehm Show, Larry King Live, and CNN’s “Portrait of America.” Among her awards are two NEA Fellowships in creative writing: one in poetry, another in fiction. She is also the award-winning author of seven other books of poetry and prose, and is the founder and leader of Zona Rosa Writing-and-Living workshops. Learn more about her work at www.myzonarosa.com.

Workshops: Walking Through Clouds: The Journey of Poetry; What Geniuses Know: Finding the Story Arc in Your Memoir

Mary Anna Evans (Fiction)

Mary Anna Evans is the author of six books in the award-winning Faye Longchamp mystery series: Artifacts, Relics, Effigies, Findings, Floodgates, and coming in October, Strangers. She holds degrees in physics and engineering, but writing is her first love. Her series character, Faye Longchamp, lives the exciting life of an archaeologist, and Mary Anna envies her a little. Her novels have received recognitions including the Benjamin Franklin Award, a Florida Book Awards bronze medal, starred reviews in Library Journal and Booklist, and two SIBA Book Award nominations. Her short stories have been anthologized in Plots with Guns, Florida Heat Wave, A Merry Band of Murderers, North Florida Noir, and A Kudzu Christmas. She is currently co-authoring a book for middle and secondary school teachers on mathematical literacy to be published in 2011. Visit her website at www.maryannaevans.com, and www.anhingawriters.org.

Workshops: We Are All Anhinga Here: Hear Us! (with Mary Anna Evans and Diana Tonnessen); Before You Launch Your Story: Techniques That Will Keep Your Writing Afloat; Finding Your Voice: Because Nobody Can Tell Your Story But You; Explaining What It Means To Be Human: What is a Story? (with Jeanne Leiby); The Writing Life (with Bev Browning and Diana Tonnessen); Choosing A Career Partner: The Author-Agent Relationship (with Anne Hawkins)  

Lola Haskins (Poetry)

Lola Haskins’ ninth collection of poetry, Still, the Mountain, has just been published by Paper Kite Press . Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, The London Review of Books, London Magazine, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, The New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. Solutions Beginning with A, prose poems illustrated by Maggie Taylor (Modernbook), The Rim Benders (Anhinga), and Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA) are her most recent poetry collections. A book of essays/stories, Wild Angels, about fifteen Florida cemeteries, will appear later this year. For more information, please see www.lolahaskins.com.

Workshops: Southern Exposure: How to Revise; Poet’s Workshop: Making Your Work Its Best

Jeanne Leiby (Fiction) 

Jeanne Leiby grew up downriver Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan, earned her MA from the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and her MFA from the University of Alabama. Her stories have appeared in Fiction, New Orleans Review, The Greensboro Review, and Indiana Review, among others. For ten years, she lived in Orlando, Florida, teaching creative writing at the University of Central Florida and editing The Florida Review. In 2008, she moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she teaches as an associate professor of English at Louisiana State University and is editor of The Southern Review. Learn more about her work at www.jeanneleiby.com.

Workshops: Explaining What It Means To Be Human: What is a Story? (with Mary Anna Evans); and Story Structure: Building Your Fiction from the Ground Up

Claire Hamner Matturro (Fiction)

Claire Hamner Matturro is the author of a series of legal thrillers with a sense of humor, including Skinny Dipping, Bone Valley, Wildcat Wine and Sweetheart Deal, all published by William Morrow. Skinny Dipping won the Romantic Times Best First Mystery award, was nominated for a Barry Award, won the SEAK Inc. first place for legal fiction, and was a Book Sense 2004 pick. Wildcat Wine was nominated for a Georgia Writer of the Year award in fiction, and Sweetheart Deal won the Toby Bromberg Award for Most Humorous Mystery. Claire practiced law in Sarasota, Florida and taught at Florida State University College of Law before developing her legal thriller series. After a recent visiting professor stint at the University of Oregon, she is back in Florida.

Workshops: Developing Characters that Live and Engage Part 1 & 2

Peter Meinke (Poetry)

Peter Meinke has published fifteen books of poetry, seven in the prestigious Pitt Poetry Series, the latest being The Contracted World (2006). His most recent publication is Lines from Neuchatel (2009, University of Tampa Press). His poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Poetry, and many other journals. His first collection of stories, The Piano Tuner, won the 1986 Flannery O’Connor Award. He has been writer-in-residence at many colleges and universities; his most recent appointment was Visiting Distinguished Writer at Converse College (2010). Learn more at www.petermeinke.com.

Workshops: The Values & Pleasures of Formal Poetry (Whether You Write It or Not); Beginnings and Endings: What Makes for Effective Opening and Closing Lines?

Bob Morris (Fiction)

A former newspaper columnist and magazine editor, Bob Morris is the author of the Zack Chasteen series of Caribbean mysteries from St. Martin’s Minotaur. The most recent, Baja Florida, came out in January 2010. His nonfiction book, HOOKED: My Father’s Tackle Box, Million-Dollar Minnows and the Quest for the Perfect Fishing Lure will be published by Penguin/Gotham Books in December 2010. Bahamarama was a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for the Best First Mystery Novel, followed by Jamaica Me Dead, Bermuda Schwartz, and A Deadly Silver Sea. A regular contributor to National Geographic Traveler, Bon Appetit and Caribbean Travel & Life, Morris also teaches creative nonfiction and fiction at Rollins College and the University of Central Florida. Visit his Web site at www.bobmorris.net.

Workshops: Crafting the Non-Fiction Book Proposal; Go, Eat, Write: Tales from a Veteran Novelist, Travel Writer, and Magazine Editor; Heroes and Villains: Heroes Your Readers Will Love and Villains Who Are Worthy Adversaries; Killing People in Exotic Places: Writing Books Based in Faraway Lands.

Diana Tonnessen (Nonfiction)

Diana L. Tonnessen has more than 25 years of experience as a magazine editor, freelance feature writer and book author. Her feature articles on health, medicine, parenting, and nutrition have appeared in Health, Glamour, Parents, Self, and Working Mother. From 1996 to 2007, she served as Editor in Chief of Pause, an award-winning national circulation health magazine for women over 45. She is the author of eight books on health and medicine for general audiences, including 50 Essential Things To Do When the Doctor Says ‘It’s Diabetes.’ She currently works as an associate editor at Gainesville Magazine, selected in 2008 as best overall city magazine in the region by the Society of Professional Journalists. Diana also writes short fiction and personal essays.

Workshops: We Are All Anhinga Here: Hear Us! (with Mary Anna Evans and Diana Tonnessen); The Writing Life (with Bev Browning and Mary Anna Evans); Six Steps to a Killer Query.