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CONFERENCES & RESIDENCIES

events for poets. The faculty includes

poets Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Nickole

Brown, Reginald Gibbons, Jessica Jacobs,

Major Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, Dana

Levin, Adrian Matejka, and Maggie

Smith. The special poetry guests are

Joy Harjo and Patricia Smith. The cost

of tuition is $950 for workshop partici-

pants and $550 for auditors. One-on-one

manuscript consultations with Lorna

Knowles Blake, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, or

Angela Narciso Torres are available for

an additional $99. Using only the online

application system, submit three poems

of up to six pages with a $25 application

fee by November 10. Lodging is available

at area hotels for discounted rates, start-

ing at $159 per night. Visit the website

for more information.

Palm Beach Poetry Festival, 3199 Lake

Worth Road, Suite B-3, Lake Worth,

FL 33461. (561) 868-2063. Susan R.

Williamson, Director.

[email protected]

http://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org

Portland Book Festival

The 2019 Portland Book Festival,

hosted by Literary Arts, will be held on

November 9 at the Portland Art Museum

from October 24 to October 26 on the

campus of the University of Tampa. The

conference features workshops in poetry,

fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as

panels and readings. The faculty includes

poet Erica Dawson, fiction writer Steph

Post, and nonfiction writer Craig Pitt-

man. The cost of the conference is $65

for FLAC members and $95 for non-

members. Workshops are available for an

additional $40. Registration is first come,

first served. Lodging is available at the

nearby Sheraton Riverwalk Hotel for a

discounted rate of $145 per night. Visit

the website for more information.

Other Words Literary Conference, Florida

Literary Arts Coalition, P.O. Box 992,

Saint Augustine, FL 32085.

(904) 819-6339. Rick Campbell, Director.

[email protected]

http://www.floridarts.org/conference

Palm Beach Poetry Festival

The 16th annual Palm Beach Poetry Fes-

tival will be held from January 20, 2020,

to January 25, 2020, at the Old School

Square in downtown Delray Beach,

Florida. The festival features workshops,

readings, craft talks, manuscript con-

sultations, panel discussions, and social

Livesey, and Anna-Marie McLemore;

nonfiction writer Rhys Martin; agent

Jennifer Udden (Barry Goldblatt Liter-

ary); Nimrod International Journal of

Prose and Poetry editorial board members

Diane Burton, Crystal Carey, Cynthia

Gustavson, and Christopher Murphy;

and recent winners of the Nimrod Liter-

ary Awards. The cost of the conference is

$60, which includes lunch. Scholarships

are available. The deadline to register

for a one-on-one manuscript consulta-

tion with an editor is October 12; general

registration is first come, first served.

Lodging is available at the nearby Hyatt

Regency hotel for a discounted rate. Visit

the website for more information.

Nimrod Conference for Readers and

Writers, Nimrod International Journal of

Prose and Poetry, 800 South Tucker Drive,

Tulsa, OK 74104. (918) 631-3080. Eilis

O’Neal, Editor in Chief.

[email protected]

http://www.nimrod.utulsa.edu/conference.html

Other Words Literary

Conference

The Other Words Literary Confer-

ence, presented by the Florida Literary

Arts Coalition (FLAC), will be held

Florida’s Premier

Low-Residency MFA

Fiction • Nonfiction • Poetry

http://www.ut.edu/mfacw • (813) 258-7409

&

present

THE JAKE ADAM YORK PRIZE

for a first or second full-length

POETRY COLLECTION

judge = FRANCINE J. HARRIS

deadline = October 15, 2019

prize = $2,000 + publication

by Milkweed Editions

copper-nickel.org/bookprize