Tampa Bay Publishing Conference 2022

$50 discounted registration available for meetup members only: www.eventbrite.com/e/288267735557/?discount=FloridaWriters

Explore the ins and outs of publishing with Florida authors and industry professionals April 29-30 at the Sanderlin Center in St. Petersburg, Florida!

The two-day event includes authors sharing their personal publishing journeys and what they learned along the way, tackling topics related to publishing and writing for poets, fiction writers, memoirists, and others.

Speakers are scheduled Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30 at the Sanderlin Center in St. Petersburg from 11 to 4 p.m.

Participating authors and professionals include Phillippe Diederich, Brian Edgar, Amanda Forrester, Sheree L. Greer, L.L. Kirchner, Gloria Muñoz, Sarah Penner, Brian Petkash, Natasha Samreny, Jerrod Schwarz. (Read more about them below!)

Discounted registration of $50 is available for meetup members only at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/288267735557/?discount=FloridaWriters

Regular advance registration is $75 for all events. Entry at the door is $100 for both days and $50 per single day. No refunds.

Email [WordierThanThou@gmail.com](http://mailto:WordierThanThou@gmail.com/) for more information.

The following authors are confirmed to participate in this year’s conference:
· Phillippe Diederich is a Haitian American writer and photographer born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Mexico City and Miami. He is the winner of the 2017 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. His novel Playing for the Devil’s Fire (Cinco Puntos Press, 2016) was awarded the 2017 HEB Best Young Adult Novel by the Texas Institute of Letters.
· Brian Edgar is a screenwriter, educator and script coach. He has written scripts for Al Pacino, Killer Films and HBO. Presently, he is working on a thriller. A co-founder of Story to Screenplay, Brian works with authors and students to adapt their novels and stories to the screen. He has taught screenwriting and film for over 20 years.
· Amanda Forrester is a poet, educator and feminist. Her collection, Resurrection, was released by WordTech Communications in 2021. She’s also an assistant professor of creative writing at Southeastern University and president of the Florida Literary Arts Coalition.
· Sheree L. Greer is a writer, artist, teacher, and publisher living in Tampa, Florida. In 2014, she founded The Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center to showcase and support the work of Black women and women of color writers and is the author of two novels, Let the Lover Be and A Return to Arms, a short story collection, Once and Future Lovers, and a student writing guide, Stop Writing Wack Essays.
· L.L. Kirchner’s essays, op eds and features have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TheHuffingtonPost, among numerous other outlets. She’s the author of Hello American Lady Creature: What I Learned as a Woman in Qatar.
· Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, literary translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy and writing. Her poetry book Dawn's Early / Danzirly was awarded the Academy of American Poets 2019 Ambroggio Prize. She has also been honored by Lumina’s Multilingual Nonfiction Writing Award, a Las Musas Mentorship for Latinx and nonbinary authors, a New York State Summer Writers Institute Fellowship, the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize, the Bettye Newman Poetry Award, and a Gen Yes Doris Duke Foundation Artist Award.
· Brian Petkash grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, a focal point of much of his writing. A former high school literature and creative writing teacher, he lives in Tampa with his partner Celeste and works as a marketing professional in both the game and comic book industries. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Tampa. Mistakes by the Lake*,* his collection of stories, was published by Madville Publishing.
· Sarah Penner is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary (Park Row Books/HarperCollins), which will be translated into two dozen languages worldwide. It debuted at #7 on the NYT bestseller list for hardcover fiction, was a Book of the Year top 5 finalist, and sat on the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists for three months.
· Natasha Samreny is a TCK writer, stand-up comedian, and improviser based in Tampa, Florida. She’s also a multicultural creator and multimedia storyteller with 10+ years in content creation, including audio, video, photography, and written content.
· Jerrod Schwarz teaches creative writing at the University of Tampa and edits poetry for Driftwood Press. Most recently, his erasure poetry was featured on VICE and New Republic. His first full length collection, No Name Atkins, was published by CLASH Books in 2020, and his chapbook collection conjure was published in 2019 by Thirty West Publishing House.