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Apr.21.2012 Kafka And Borges Meet In Prague Not - perhaps - in person, but their spirits and their craft get twinned at the Kafka/Borges Biennale. Switching years between Prague and Buenos Aires, the literary festival presents present day artistic works from both Argentina and The Czech Republic. Kafka and Borges have had immeasurable...	Nov.10.2010 Creating Great Characters in Film and Fiction Next week, November 17th, I'll be giving a master class on Creating Great Characters for Film and Fiction at the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society great literary festival in New Orleans. I'll explain how to build the right character for your story or how to create the right story from your characters...
Oct.04.2010 Litquake is underway! October is my very favorite month of the year in San Francisco, and not least of all because of Litquake. The week-long literary festival is underway and there have already been quite a few highlights. From a delightful (and Free! thank you) opening night party at 111 Minna to visual art and...	May.28.2010 FIRST, I'D LIKE TO THANK GOOGLE (THAT IS HOW "GOD" IS SPELLED TODAY) Stephen Fry Will Pick Best Tweet Ever At UK Hay FestivalBy Mark Byrne on May 26, 2010 02:23 PM Actor and writer Stephen Fry will have one eye on his Twitter account while he's at the Guardian's Hay festival, starting tomorrow, and it'll be his judging eye: As a new part of the 10-day literary...
Aug.21.2009 Frank O Connor Literary Festival THE FRANK O'CONNOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY FESTIVAL http://www.munsterlit.ie HISTORY Introduced in the year 2000, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival takes place in Cork, Ireland. It is the longest established annual festival dedicated to the short story form in an English-...	Mar.23.2009 A Few Notes on the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival I came back last Wednesday after a fruitful trip to Hong Kong for the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival, at which I had four events. The first I shared with Xujun Eberlein (Apologies Forthcoming) and Neel Chowdbury (The Inheritors), on the topic of Dislocated Voices, discussing the...
Mar.11.2009 The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2009 I am looking forward to my events at the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival. It is always interesting to meet and exchange ideas with writers from different countries and backgrounds; and I am extremely excited to have the chance to share the stage with authros who have made their names...	Oct.08.2008 Will I See You at the Southern Festival? I'm feeling that head-to-toe anticipation about the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville this weekend. My panel on mother/daughter relationships, as explored in "The Movable Nest," includes two dynamic women writers--Alice Friman is fierce and funny and smart. She wrote with pride...
Sep.27.2008 Literary Festival Is Buzzing There was a buzz in the town of Havant in Hampshire when I turned up this morning at Havant Arts Centre to give my talk. Not, I hasten to add, because I was speaking, but because of the wide range of interesting events being held. I am really pleased the literary festival is being greeted so...	Sep.23.2008 Photo Shoot and Radio Show I attended the photo shoot for the publicity for the Havant Literary Festival this morning with fellow authors, Brian Clarke and saga writer Dee Williams. ( I'm on the right holding a copy of THE SUFFOCATING SEA.) The children are from Warblington School. The photograph was for The News,...