Win a Trip to Cayman Island Writer’s Conference

Interested in learning what it takes to be a successful writer in today’s marketplace while enjoying a remarkably beautiful setting? Take a chance on winning the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression’s raffle of a trip to the October 21 - 23 FIU/Books & Books International Writers Conference in the Cayman Islands.

Conference attendees will learn from some of today’s leading fiction and nonfiction authors, literary agent Marly Rusoff, publisher Mark Halpern, and the faculty of the Florida International University MFA program. The three-day schedule features daily classes in all genres, afternoon editing and publishing symposia, and evening readings.

The raffle winner will receive round-trip transportation to Grand Cayman, three nights at the conference hotel, the Sunshine Suites, and free conference registration. Raffle tickets are $25 and are deductible as a charitable expense. Tickets may be purchased online through the ABFFE store. The drawing will take place on September 24.

The International Writers Conference faculty includes authors Kaylie Jones (Lies My Mother Never Told Me); Ann Hood (The Red Thread); Geoffrey Philp (Exodus and Other Poems); Dan Wakefield (New York in the Fifties); Debra Dean (The Madonnas of Leningrad); Campbell McGrath (Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition); Les Standiford (Last Train to Paradise); John Dufresne (Requiem, Mass.); Denise Duhamel (Ka-Ching!); and Lynne Barrett (The Secret Names of Women).

For further information about the ABFFE raffle, contact Amy Long at (212) 587-4025, ext. 12, or at [email protected]. More information about the conference is available on the FIU website.