[NEohioPAL] DISCOUNT FOR NEOPAL - MEET RON POWERS!

[Tom Fulton]

Hello Everyone,

I am writing to invite you to attend the Fairmount Writers Conference at a
10% discount.  Any neopals subscriber may claim this discount simply by
saying you subscribe.  To learn all about the conference:
http://www.fairmountcenter.org/writers-conference.htm - call 440-338-3171 to
sign up!


*THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
at
THE MAYFIELD VILLAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
*
*MEET AND HEAR

Pulitzer Prize Winner RON POWERS (Flags of our Fathers)
ANN HOOD (The Knitting Circle)*
*Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow)
Charles Michener (Senior Editor New Yorker, Newsweek)*
*And others!

* *Come One Day or Two  *
*Pricing is available for both*
*Don't forget to claim you NEOPAL 10% discount*



The Fairmount Center for the Arts presents its first national writers'
conference with an outstanding collection of internationally known authors,
including Ron Powers ( *Flags of Our Fathers*) and Ann Hood (*The Knitting
Circle*).  The Fairmount Center for the Arts Writers' Conference will take
place Saturday and Sunday, October 13 and 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
at the Mayfield Village Civic Center, 6622 Wilson Mills Road, at SOM Center
Road (Rt. 91).



Conference director and locally based author Scott Lax (*The Year That
Trembled *) says, "With the support of Executive Director Tom Fulton, we at
The Fairmount Center for the Arts have assembled a faculty of some of the
finest writers and literary minds in America: Ron Powers, Ann Hood, Mary
Doria Russell, Michael Ruhlman, Charles Michener and Peter Scott.  [See
author bios below.]  Each of them has broken literary ground; each has
written important works of fiction or nonfiction, or both.   Each is a
gifted author who is willing to share his or her gift with writers and
readers for two days."



This conference, as Lax noted, is not only for writers; it is geared just as
much toward readers. It is, Lax says, "for anyone who cares about language
and words."



Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award winner, a *New York Times* #1
best-selling author, and the chair of the conference's Nonfiction
Department, says, "In an autumn landscape filling up with 'market-friendly'
writers' conferences, Scott Lax understands that writing must be taught as a
craft, as opposed to a commodity.  The Fairmount Center for the Arts
Writers' Conference is for those who wish to write, not those who wish to
have written.  I can't wait to get there not only to teach, but to learn
from this outstanding faculty."



The two-day conference will include panel discussions, readings, lectures
and question-and-answer sessions. Continental breakfast, snacks and lunch
will be provided both days.



The fee is $295 for adults, and $195 for students with a valid student I.D.  It
is open to the public and no submissions are required.  Seating is limited.



Call 440-338-3171 for reservations. For more information or to sign up,
please visit

http://www.fairmountcenter.org/writers-conference.htm


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*THE AUTHORS*



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*Ron Powers, *conference Nonfiction Chair, won a Pulitzer Prize and an Emmy
Award. He is the co-author of *The New York Times *#1 best-selling book, *Flags
of Our Fathers*, which is now a major motion picture.   A leading expert on
Mark Twain, featured on Ken Burns' PBS documentary on Twain, Powers is
author of the critically acclaimed *Mark Twain: A Life*, and 11 other books,
including the recent release, *Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last
Confederate Warship* (Crown).  The former head of nonfiction at the famed
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Powers has written for many publications,
such as *The Atlantic Monthly*.  He wrote a column for *GQ*, and is a
frequent book reviewer for *The New York Times Book Review*.  An
accomplished nature photographer, Powers lives in the Green Mountains in
Vermont.



*Ann Hood* , conference Fiction Chair, is the author of the current best
selling, critically acclaimed novel, *The Knitting Circle* (Norton), which
has been called "A heartbreaker" by *Vanity Fair *magazine.  A former flight
attendant for TWA after receiving her BA in English from the University of
Rhode Island, Hood wrote her widely praised first novel, *Somewhere Off the
Coast of Maine*, while 30,000 feet in the air.  She is the author of 10
other books of fiction and nonfiction, and her recent essays and short
stories have appeared in *Good Housekeeping*, *The New York Times*, *Ladies
Home Journal*, *Ploughshares*, *O *magazine and *The Paris Review*.  Hood is
the recipient of a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, The Paul Bowles
Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Providence,
Rhode Island.



*Michael Ruhlman* was born in 1963 in Cleveland and graduated from Duke
University in 1985 with a degree in English Literature.  He is the author of
eight nonfiction books and the co-author of four cookbooks.   His writing –
on a wide variety of subjects, from heart surgery to boys' schools to wooden
boat making to the art of cooking and food – has been highly praised in such
periodicals as *Publisher's Weekly, The New York Times Book Review *and *The
Boston Herald*, which called *Walk on Water*, his book on heart surgery,
"Astonishing…thrilling…incredible."   Ruhlman, who lives in Cleveland
Heights with his wife and kids, is best known for writing about food and
chefs in such books as *The Soul of a Chef *.



*Mary Doria Russell* , who once taught anatomy at CWRU, wrote three
critically acclaimed novels that struck a deep chord with readers for their
respectful but unblinking consideration of fundamental religious
questions.  Her
work has been recognized with nine national and international literary
awards.  *The Sparrow* and *Children of God* remain steady best sellers,
translated into a dozen languages.  In 2005, *Thread of Grace* (Random
House) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.   *The San Francisco Chronicle *said
of her work: "Brilliant... Powerful... Russell is an outstanding natural
storyteller whose remarkable wit, erudition, and dramatic skills keep us
turning the pages in excitement and anticipation."   Mary Doria Russell, who
lives in Cleveland, is writing *Dreamers of the Day*, about the Cairo Peace
Conference, to be published in 2008.



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*Peter Scott* is the author of one history and three novels, including the
recently published *Barter Island* (Down East Books), which has been praised
by legendary fiction writer Tim O'Brien as "tender, funny, sad and scary,
and boy oh boy does Scott nail the setting."   *The Boy Who Came Walking
Home* and *Something in the Water*, which the *Boston Globe* called "A
thoroughly engaging novel," are prequels to *Barter Island*, and all of them
deal with themes of war and peace.  A veteran of the Vietnam War as a U.S.
Army Officer, Peter was raised in Maryland.  He earned his M.A. in 1973, and
has published 15 short stories and numerous magazine articles.  An English
teacher at Hawken School, Scott lives in Chagrin Falls.



*Charles Michener* is the former senior editor of *The New Yorker*, for
which he still writes; his article "The Clevelanders" was a vibrant portrait
of The Cleveland Orchestra. Michener is also former senior editor of *
Newsweek*, and writes about the arts for *The New York Observer*.  A former
Peace Corps worker in Ethiopia, Michener is the author of numerous books
about the arts, including co-authoring Ghost of a Chance, with Peter Duchin;
*The Kid Stays in the Picture*; with Robert Evans; and *The Toughest Show on
Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera*, with Joseph
Volpe.  Michener,
who lives in New York City and Cleveland, is currently writing a book about
the reinvention of northeast Ohio, to be published by Knopf.



*Scott Lax* 's novel, *The Year The Trembled*, was called "articulate with
passion,

humor and heartbreak" by the *Midwest Book Review*, and one of 1998's
"Milestones in Fiction" by *The Denver Post*.  With Tyler Davidson, he
produced the feature film based on his novel, which is in worldwide release
on DVD; he then adapted it for the stage.

A graduate of Hiram College, Lax was a 1993 Scholar in Nonfiction at the
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a 1998 Fellow in Fiction at the Sewanee
Writers' Conference, as well as the recipient of four first-place film
festival awards in 2002.  Lax, who lives in Chagrin Falls, is senior writer
for *Northern Ohio Live *magazine and teaches writing at The Fairmount
Center for the Arts, and the Wildacres Writers' Workshop in North Carolina.


-- 
Tom Fulton (tomtq2 at gmail.com)
Executive Director
Fairmount Center for the Arts

"Thou must be patient.."
King Lear
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