Writers' Day 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH

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PRESENTERS

Andi Axman is an editor and author who has helped launch several magazines and written five books. She currently serves as editor of New Hampshire Home, a bimonthly magazine covering architecture, interior design, landscaping and gardening. Her Small Business Advisor was published by Entrepreneur Media in March 2007.

Julie Baker is the author of several books,including The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912, winner of the 2007 New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Children’s Literature. A writing instructor at Daniel Webster College and member of the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, she has had work featured in American History Magazine, PBS for Kids, and EBSCO Publications.

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Barbara Beckwith learned the art of query, negotiating money/rights, and writing effective demand letters from years of freelancing for such newspapers as The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and Boston Globe. Her essays also appear in anthologies. She is co-chair of the Boston Chapter of the National Writers Union (www.nwu.org)

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Martha Carlson-Bradley’s latest collection of poems is Season We Can’t Resist, and her poems have appeared in such magazines as New England Review, Marlboro Review, and Carolina Quarterly. The American Antiquarian Society recently awarded her the Robert and Sharon Baron Fellowship, which will allow her to do research to complete a collection of poems in progress. You can reach her at www.mcarlson-bradley.com. [Photo: Ellen Dudley]

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Rick Broussard has been editor of New Hampshire Magazine for 14 years. Prior to that he oversaw public relations for a prison ministry, did fundraising for a small private school, worked for a peer counseling organization for teens and helped start and became editor of a small weekly newspaper for the towns of Bow, Dunbarton, and Hopkinton. Throughout all this time he's been a journalist reporting on topics of human interest, culture, and technology.

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Cobblestone editors include Meg Chorlian, editor of Cobblestone; Elizabeth Carpentiere, editor of Faces; Beth Lindstrom, editor of Odyssey; Peg Lopata, assistant editor of Faces; Marcia Lusted, editorial assistant, and Lou Waryncia, editorial director of Cobblestone Publishing. Visit www.cobblestonepub.com for information about Cobblestone.

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Charlotte Dennett is a nonfiction author, attorney, and cochair of the Book Division of the National Writers Union. Coauthor of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon, she is currently writing a book on the origins of U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Her articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.

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Maggie Dietz won the 2007 Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry for Perennial Fall, her first book of poems. She is assistant poetry editor for the online magazine Slate and a lecturer in creative writing at Boston University. For several years she directed the national Favorite Poem Project. Her awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize and fellowships from Phillips Exeter Academy and the NH State Council on the Arts.

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Muriel Dubois has been writing professionally for more than twenty years. While her primary focus is writing nonfiction books for children, she has also published articles for adults in national magazines.

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Sorche Elizabeth Fairbank established Fairbank Literary Representation in 2002 and has had the pleasure of working with a dynamic and varied list, representing best-selling authors, Edgar recipients, award-winning journalists and, of course, her favorite kind of client—the first-time author.
For more information, visit
www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/Sorche Fairbank/

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Linda Formichelli writes for Health, USA Weekend, Fitness, Women’s Health, Business.com, Writer’s Digest, and other magazines. She also coauthored The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success and The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock. You can reach her at www.lindaformichelli.com.

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Lisa Greenleaf, owner of Greenleaf Design Studio, is a fine artist working primarily in pencil, acrylics, and watercolors. She has more than twenty years of experience as an art director, illustrator, and graphic/book designer in both the corporate and freelance world.

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Pagan Kennedy is the award-winning author of nine books, including the biography Black Livingston: A True Tale of Adventure in the 19th-Century Congo, which made the New York Times Notable list of 2002. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Magazine, and Ms., among others. She works with private clients as a writing coach and can be found on the Web at http://home.comcast.net/~pagankennedy.

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Karen Kenney is the director of Quest Yoga Studio in Chichester, NH, and is the creator and host of “The Yoga Show” on Concord TV (Channel 22). A published author, motivational speaker, and Yoga & Writing workshop facilitator, she is currently at work on her memoir.

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W. Eric Martin, a freelance writer living in Concord, NH, has written for Woman’s Day, Psychology Today, Games, and more than 40 other mainstream and trade publications. He is also the editor of BoardgameNews.com, a Web site devoted to strategic board and card games.

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Anita D. McClellan is a freelance writer, editor, and reviewer working with authors, agents, publishers, and businesses. She is a former executive editor and senior acquisitions and development editor at Macmillan and Houghton Mifflin and has been resident editor and visiting literary agent at Bennington Writers’ Workshops and other conferences. See her online at www.AnitaMcClellan.com. [Photo copyright Jane  Myers]

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Cam Mirisola is senior editor of New Hampshire ToDo and helped launch the magazine. Her background in communications and her active lifestyle fuel her passion as an editor and writer to document experiences for readers. She works closely with freelance writers and photographers, from novices to seasoned professionals.

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Colleen Mohyde stablished an affiliation with the Doe Coover Agency in 1992 after a decade as an editor at Little, Brown & Company. She represents an eclectic and wide-ranging list of authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners, PEN Award recipients, and New York Times bestsellers. She is first and foremost interested in gifted storytelling, whether in literary fiction or narrative nonfiction, and is also interested in biography, business, psychology, health, sports, music, history, and politics.

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Matthew Mowry is the award-winning editor of Business NH Magazine, a monthly statewide publication covering NH’s business community with 15,000 subscribers and an estimated 50,000 readers. He has been a journalist for 14 years, previously serving as a reporter for the Caledonian-Record in St. Johnsbury, VT, and as a reporter and editor at Foster’s Daily Democrat in Dover, NH.

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Anton Mueller is a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin in Boston. Before that he was an editor at Grove/Atlantic in New York. He edits literary fiction and nonfiction. Among his fiction writers are Anchee Min (Empress Orchid), Alice Randall (The Wind Done Gone), and Tom Spanbauer (The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon). Among his nonfiction authors are Tim Egan (The Worst Hard Time), Paul Roberts (The End of Oil), and Nick Kotz (Judgment Days), among many others.

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Kim Ponders is the author of two novels, The Art of Uncontrolled Flight and The Last Blue Mile. She teaches in the SNHU MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction program and is the director of the 2009 A Room of Her Own Foundation retreat in Santa Fe, NM. As a reservist, she is a speechwriter for the commander of the Air Force Reserve. She’s currently working on a memoir.

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Lorin Rees is an agent with the Helen Rees Literary Agency in Boston, which represents such leading authors as Michael Hammer, Alan Dershowitz, Jack Welch, and many others. His books and authors include Words that Work by Frank Luntz, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green by Johnny Rico, and the forthcoming Travel Writing by Peter Ferry. The agency acquires fiction, including literary and genre fiction, and nonfiction, including business, current affairs, memoir, and humor.  

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Randi Rivers is an editor at Charlesbridge Publishing, where she acquires and edits ten to twelve children’s books per year, including both fiction and nonfiction picture books and middle-grade books. Before joining Charlesbridge, she worked as an associate editor for a magazine publisher; she also co-wrote a sketch comedy show and a play, both of which were produced onstage.

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Barbara Collins Rosenberg founded The Rosenberg Group in June 1998. Prior to becoming an agent, she spent nine years as an editor in college textbook publishing. Her editorial years provided her with experience in negotiating contracts for books, supplements, Web sites, CD ROMs, electronic books, and video packages. She represents trade nonfiction authors, romance authors, authors of women’s fiction, and college textbook authors.

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Lloyd Schwartz is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator for NPR’s Fresh Air. His most recent book of poems is Cairo Traffic, and he is coeditor of Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters. In 1994 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

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Mimi Schwartz’s books include her most recent, Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village; Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, and Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction. Six of her essays have been Notables in Best American Essays and her short literary work has appeared in The Missouri Review, The New York Times, and Tikkun, among others. She is professor emerita at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and spends summers in Sunapee, NH.

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Katherine Towler is author of the novels Snow Island, named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title, and Evening Ferry, named a Booksense pick by independent booksellers across the country. She teaches in the MFA Program in Fiction and Nonfiction at SNHU.

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Lissa Warren is vice president, senior director of publicity and acquiring editor at Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. The author of The Savvy Author’s Guide to Book Publicity, she teaches at Emerson College and in Boston University’s publishing certificate program. Her poetry has appeared in many literary journals, and she’s a poetry editor for Post Road.

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Michael White is the author of five novels and a short story collection. His novel A Brother’s Blood was a New York Times Notable book, while The Garden of Martyrs was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. His latest novel, Soul Catcher, was a Booksense selection and a Historical Novels Review pick, as well as being a selection of the Book of the Month Club, the History Book Club, and the Quality Paperback Book Club. His novel A Dream of Wolves is under option by Miracle Pictures.

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Ann Joslin Williams is the author of The Woman in the Woods, a collection of linked stories, which won the 2005 Spokane Prize. She earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is also the recipient of a 2008 NEA grant. Her work has appeared in Storyquarterly, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She teaches at UNH.

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Three sessions of classes cover the craft and business of writing. Five-minute pitch sessions with editors and agents give you a chance to get instant feedback on your book. A performance showcase and reception round out the day.