Where did I go?

OK, so I was double-checking when the Atlantic’s fiction editor, C. Michael Curtis, would be talking at this year’s Decatur Book Festival and I now can’t find him anywhere!

Here’s the old page for the writer’s conference and here’s the one currently linked to off the homepage.

Notice a difference?  Steven Corey of the Georgia Editor’s Review has mysteriously replaced a now absent Curtis!

Perhaps Ty Pennington and C. Michael Curtis are BOTH on Oprah this weekend?

Beyond all this, remember that the DBF kicks off this afternoon at 3pm with the Writer’s Conference this afternoon at Agnes Scott.

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… Read the rest of this entry »