Quick Facts about the SCBook Festival May 18 – 20, 2012 Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center Columbia, South Carolina The state-wide SCBook Festival celebrates its 16th Anniversary as the state’s premier literary event in 2012. The SCBook Festival has an attendance of over 6,000 people annually. The Festival is free and open to the public on [...]
The Women Writers Forum at Charleston’s Center for Women (129 Cannon St.) will host Skirt magazine founder and editor Nikki Hardin on Saturday, April 14, from 10 a.m. to noon. Nikki will share her experiences with launching and maintaining her popular blog, Fridaville. Shark Marketing Co.’s Shari Stauch will moderate. The workshop is $25 for [...]
This talk by an experienced author and publisher Lily Herndon Weaks takes authors through the process of becoming savvy entrepreneurs, learning how to successfully navigate the ever-changing publishing industry for successful branding and maximum profit. The number one frustration publishers face is authors not treating the industry like the business it is. Many authors see [...]
Nicolas Kristof, two time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and columnist for the New York Times, will be speaking at a luncheon on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012, noon, at the Montague Terrace in the North Charleston Coliseum, Convention & Performing Arts Center, in recognition of women’s history month. Kristof will talk about how to fight poverty and [...]
This in from Dr. Ed Madden, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina: “I”m looking for poems, good poems– for a chapbook, for a performance, and for Jasper, the Columbia arts magazine. (Please feel free to forward this.) “First, I helping to organize a poetry component to the annual “What’s Love” Valentine’s [...]
The First Novel Competition recognizes one of South Carolina’s exceptional writers by providing a book contract with Hub City Press. The competition is a highly competitive, anonymous process. Publication by Hub City of at least 1,500 paperback copies of the book will bring recognition that may open doors to other resources and opportunities. The book [...]
LILA, the Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts, is meant to provide a “one-stop-shopping” forum for readers and writers to connect to literary events in and around the lowcountry. Share your news with us, and we’ll be posting as often as possible about events you’ll want to attend… Write On, Read On…