Pat Carr — Author

PAT CARR has a B.A. and M.A. from Rice, a Ph.D. from Tulane, and sixteen published books, including the Iowa Fiction Prize winner, The Women in the Mirror, and the PEN Book Award finalist, If We Must Die. She's published over a hundred short stories in such places as The Southern Review, Yale Review, and Best American Short Stories. Her latest short story collection, The Death of a Confederate Colonel, a nominee for the Faulkner Award, won the PEN Southwest Fiction Award, the John Estes Cooke Civil War Fiction Award, and was voted one of the top ten books from university presses for 2007 by Foreword Magazine. She's won numerous other awards, including a Library of Congress Marc IV, an NEH, the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award, an Al Smith Literary Fellowship, and a Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt Writing Fellowship in Lausanne, Switzerland. She's taught creative writing and literature in numerous universities across the South, has conducted writing workshops from Santa Fe to New York, and in August taught the Civil War novel at New York's Chautauqua Institute. Her writing text, Writing Fiction with Pat Carr appeared from High Hill Press in 2010, and her memoir, One Page at a Time: On a Writing Life, also published in 2010 by Texas Tech University Press, was a finalist for both the Willa Cather Award and the PEN Southwest Non-fiction Award. Her novella, The Radiance of Fossils, is scheduled to appear from the Main Street Rag Press in the summer of 2012.

Cherry Weiner Headlines Friday at 45th Annual Conference

Cherry Weiner has been a successful literary agent for more than 25 years. She lives within driving distance of the heart of the publishing world — New York City. Cherry is a devoted champion for dozens of clients and is always seeking new authors with great book ideas. Cherry will speak on Friday morning about the industry, how she sees it evolving, and what kind of books she's looking for. Then for the rest of the week-end she will take pitches. More information will be on the web soon so that you can sign up early and make sure to book your time with Cherry. Here are some of the genres she represents:

>Adventure
>Contemporary Literature
>Crime & Investigative
>Fiction
>Mystery, Suspense & Thriller
>Nonfiction
>Romance
>Science Fiction
>Self-Help
>Supernatural & Occult
>Western