A couple more Decatur Book Festival (August 29-31) announcements have come in the past two days.

The first is referenced in the title to this post…

Aspiring writers, look no further! The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical (DBF) is hosting the Writers Conference, a series of writing workshops designed to provide hopeful authors with tips on how to improve their writing and get their work published.

The Writers Conference, presented by Poets & Writers and Agnes Scott College, begins Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. with a keynote address by C. Michael Curtis, fiction editor of “Atlantic Monthly,” and author Elizabeth Cox.

The Writers Conference Friday afternoon workshops will begin at 4 p.m. at the Alston Building and Evans Hall at Agnes Scott. The workshops will feature notable authors, poets, and journalists presenting on a variety of topics. Some highlights include novelist Doug Crandell’s “Ye Olde Thyme Writing Workshoppe and Petting Zoo,” which will include live animals; David Fulmer’s “Sex & Violence: Writing About Them Without Sounding Like a Virgin Pacifist”; and “Poets & Writers Presents Rant Without Whining: Regie Cabico on the Art of Slam Poetry, for Teens Only.”

The other from today is after the jump…

The 2008 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical (DBF) is pleased to welcome Miami-based Univision anchor and Colombian journalism legend Raul Benoit to downtown Decatur for the festival.

Born in Cali, Colombia, Benoit has been involved in the media world since he was nine-years old, when he created a neighborhood newsletter. Writing and running some of Colombia’s largest and best-known broadcasting networks, Benoit’s career has been best marked by his experience as a war reporter during the Colombian civil wars between 1984 and 1986.