The National Hispanic Cultural Center in May of this year will be hosting the 2009 7th Annual National Latino Writers Conference. The conference is an opportunity for authors to participate in workshops, attend panel discussions and have “three one-on-one appointments with an agent, author, and editor.” Who wouldn’t want such opportunities? The Conference promises to bring authors, agents and editors of national reputation. Unlike Cave Canem’s focus which is solely on poetry, the National Latino Writers Conference welcomes Latino writers whose work includes the genres of novel-writing, poetry, biography, playwriting, screenwriting, short fiction and children’s literature. Resources such as these open up a world for writers that often may not be offered to them.
7th Annual National Latino Writers Conference
May 20 – May 24, 2009
10 am – 5 pm
NHCC Campus
$250 registration fee
Nationally known authors, agents, and editors will present in workshops and panel discussions. All attendees will have the opportunity to have three one-on-one appointments with an agent, author, and editor. Genres include: novel, poetry, biography, playwriting, screen-writing, short fiction, and children’s literature. Accepting a total of 50 fiction and nonfiction writers. If submitted early, authors will read a sample of your work. Workshops will include hands-on exercises. Registration deadline is March 30, 2009. Call 505/246-2261 for information. Go to their website to click on registrar form.
NATIONAL LATINO WRITERS
CONFERENCE MAY 21-23, 2009
Faculty Listing
• Gabriela Baeza Ventura: Executive Editor Arte Público Press and associate professor of Spanish, University of Houston, supervises production of over 30 titles a year.
• Doris Booth: Editor, Authorlink.com an online literary clearinghouse. Ms. Booth has
considerable expertise on publishing and marketing.
• Moses Cardona: Agent with John Hawkins & Associates, New York. Mr. Cardona is a literary agent who represents Latino fiction and non-fiction.
• René Colato Laínez: Children’s literature, bilingual elementary teacher in Los Angeles, author of children’s picture books I am René, the Boy/Soy René, el niño which won the International Latino Book Award for best bilingual picture book of 2006.
• Adriana Dominguez: Editor, Ms. Dominguez has New York editing experience most recently with HarperCollins. Children’s Books and Rayo.
• Anna Gallegos: Publisher, Director of Museum of New Mexico Press, has had New York publishing experience with Vintage and Random House. She has been Director at Museum of New Mexico Press since 2001.
• Mario García: Memoir/biography, Mr. García is professor of History and Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Among his notable books are Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography.
• Reyna Grande: Novel, Ms. Grande was born in Guerrero, Mexico, her novel Across a Hundred Mountains was the winner of the Premio Aztlán Literary Award and a National Book Award. Her second novel is forthcoming.
• Demetria Martínez: Memoir/autobiography. Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana was the winner of an International Latino Book Award.
• Valerie Martínez: Poetry, Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico and professor of
Creative Writing and Literature at the College of Santa Fe. Her book Absence
Luminescent was the winner of the Larry Levine Prize.
• Patty Moosebrugger: Agent, Patty Moosebrugger Literary Agency, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Novelist and poet Benjamin Saenz is one of her notable clients.
• Achy Obejas (invited): Translation, Born in Cuba Ms. Obejas came to the United States at a young age. She has been a translator, editor and journalist. Her novel Days of Awe received several awards among them the Lambda Literary Foundation Award and Best Books of 2001 from the Los Angeles Times.
• Lisa Pacheco: Editor, Ms. Pacheco is the Acquiring Editor for the University of New
Mexico Press.
• Malin Alegria Ramírez: Young adult novel. Estrella’s Quinceañera. Malin Alegria was recently named one of the San Francisco Library 2008 Laureate Honorees.
• Bobbie Salinas: Children’s literature, Author and illustrator Bobbi Salinas is an instructor in multicultural and adult education, The Three Pigs-Nacho, Tito and Miguel was the winner of the Tomás Rivera Children’s Book Award.
• Stephanie Sanchez Von Borstel: Agent, Full Circle Literary LLC, San Diego, CA. Her publishing career began with PSS/Putnam, followed by seven years as marketing manager with Harcourt.
• Michael Sedaño: Online resources, journalist and one of the three original La Bloga blogueros.
• Charley Trujillo: Publisher Chusma House Books (produces 30 titles a year). Mr. Trujillo is also a writer and filmmaker.
• Luis Urrea (invited): Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize for Fiction for The Hummingbird’s Daughter and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction for The Devil’s Highway.
• Sharon Warner: Novel, professor of Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico where she has been given several teaching awards. Ms. Warner is the Founding Director of the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. Among her books are the novel Deep in the Heart.
• Frank Zuñiga: Screenwriter, producer, director Disney Studios examples include “
Heartbreaker with Fernando Allende among others. He is also a former director of the New Mexico Film Office.
7thAnnual National Latino Writers Conference
May 21 – 23, 2009 Albuquerque, NM
AGENDA-AT-A-GLANCE
Thursday May 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast & Registration
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary, Keynote [Ortego y Gasca]
10:00 – 11:30 Poetry [V. Martínez], Novel [Grande], Short Fiction [Warner], Screenwriting [Zuñiga], Children’s Literature [Colato Lainez]
11:30 – 12:00 Lunch and changes and adjustments
12:30 – 2:00 Webinar [Booth],
Presenting Your Work [Sedaño]
2:30 – 4:00 Memoir [García]
Online Sources/Newswriting [panel]
4:00 – 5:30 Editors [panel
6:00 – 8:00 Social and open mic (music and food)
Friday May 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 Poetry [V. Martínez], Novel [Grande], Short Fiction [Warner], Screenwriting [Zuñiga]
10:30 – 12:00 Playwriting (Martínez-Lutz]
Chidren’s Lit. [Colato Lainez]
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch and open mic
1:00-3:00 Agents [panel]
1:30 – 3:00 Memoir [D. Martínez], Children’s Lit. [panel]
3:30 – 5:00 Publishers [ panel]
6:00 – 8:00 Banquet: Premio Aztlán, Keynote [López], music
8:00 – 10:00 Performance by comedian Michael Quezada and the Diego Arencón Latin Jazz Quintet
Saturday
9:00 – 1:00 One-on-one Interviews
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