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A. Lee Martinez Booksigning

DFW Writers' Workshop author
A. Lee Martinez
will be signing his latest book
A NAMELESS WITCH
Saturday afternoon, 2pm - 4pm
at the
North Richland Hills Barnes & Noble Bookstore
in North Richland Hills, Texas

Everyone is welcome! Come visit, meet Alex, chat with Workshop members, and enjoy free coffee and snacks, compliments of B&N Bookstore and CRM Georgette.

Poetry Workshop Sat May 19, 7pm

our monthly POETRY WORKSHOP

Saturday May 19 (today!) at 7pm

North Richland Hills Barnes & Noble

Open to the public

26th International Space Development Conference

"From Old Frontiers to New: Celebrating 50 Years of Space Flight "Dallas, Texas
May 25-28, 2007

http://isdc.nss.org:80/2007/

The National Space Society's 2007 International Space Development Conference (ISDC) will bring together leaders from NASA, the burgeoning private space industry, international space programs, and the public to hear the latest news and preview tomorrow’s space technologies. As the premier public space event for 26 years running, this year’s ISDC will begin at 9 AM on Friday, May 25, 2007 in Dallas, Texas and will conclude at noon on Monday, May 28, 2007 at the InterContinental Hotel . In addition, two pre-conference events are scheduled in the days leading up to ISDC, including the Symposium on Space Venture Finance on Thursday, May 24, and the bi-annual meeting of the Aerospace Technology Working Group (ATWG) from May 22 through May 24.

Langdon Weekend in Granbury, Sept. 5-8

Langdon Weekend
September 5-8, 2007
Granbury, Texas

It's hard for me to believe that this will be our fourth Langdon Weekend. For us the greatest joy is to see artists, writers, and readers getting together to share their art with others. This year, the Langdon Weekend will again be hosted by the Langdon Center, and we will again unveil the newest edition of the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas.

We're asking for proposals for sessions or individual presentations. Because of our schedules, we have to set an early deadline for suggestions for June 10, but we are most certainly interested in hearing from you and others about suggestions. Please send these to me via email, and I will acknowledge receipt of your proposals as soon as I receive them.

Dr. Donna Walker-Nixon
Email: walkernixon at aol.com
Web site: http://www.tarleton.edu/~langdonreview/
Donna's Blog: http://journals.aol.com/walkernixon/DonnasBlog/

Events: Texas Coalition of Authors

Authors, if you know details, a website, or possess other clues about fall book events, please send them to Linda@texasauthors.org . Meanwhile, don't miss these opportunities, listed on http://texasauthors.org/html/calendar.html : In particular, notice the link to download the Exhibitor's Contract 2007 for Texas Book Festival, November 3-4.

• May 15--deadline for application Giddings Public Library Word Wranglers Festival, Sept. 14, 2007 Minnie@simmang.com
• May 25-26--Brazos Writers, Bryan/College Station, mini-conference This Business of Writing,
  http://www.brazoswriters.org/wordpress/?p=57>http://www.brazoswriters.org/wordpress/?p=57
• June 15 & 16--Dallas Hardboiled Heroes and Cozy Cats http://mwasw.org/
• June 15 – 17--Agents & Editors Conference, Writers’ League of Texas http://www.writersleague.org/agents2006.htm .
• June 29-30, Corpus Christi, CorpusBeat, Inc.,1st annual Author & Literacy Festival,
  download forms Dear Author, Registration
• August 29-30, Encyclo-Media Conference, Cox Convention Center, Oklahoma City
• September 14, Texas Word Wrangler Festival, Giddings** (see note below)
• October 12-13, 1st annual Burnet Cultural Arts Festival, www.bcafburnet.org Mike Gullickson 512-756-8303
• November 3-4, Texas Book Festival. Download Exhibitor’s Contract 2007
• November 30, 2007 deadline for entries in new poetry contest. Details at www.poetrycompetition.ca .

Metaphors be with you!

Linda S. Bingham
Texas Coalition of Authors
www.texasauthors.org
Linda@texasauthors.org

The Workshop meets every week... regardless!

The weather tried very hard to keep us from meeting last night, to no avail. Our board of directors resolutely continued its weighty discussions, shrugging off the pounding of rain on the roof and ear-splitting thunder. We laughed at the danger and persisted even as the power went out, came back, and then went out for good.

More than twenty members showed up, despite the approaching storm. As the time for the regular meeting rolled around, we milled about in the dark and watched the wind and lightning, waiting for the lights to come back on. They didn't. We opted to delay our business meeting a week, but we held the regular meeting and listened to rejections, acceptances, submissions and announcements, including member Ginnie Siena Bivona's astounding four acceptances in one week!

Without light, we were unable to do read and critique, so it was a short meeting. But many of us reconvened at IHOP. This is another chapter in the Workshop's long and storied history of refusing to allow meetings to be canceled. This January, seven of us met in the middle of an ice storm. One year, four members met on Christmas Day. When we say every Wednesday, we're not kidding.