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Rather than upload each event individually, kindly click on the link below, where you will find all my appearances through December, 2009. Thank you.

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Anyone who has had a child knows that parenting is one of life's most exhilarating, awesome, maddening, humbling, crazymaking, joyful and wrenching experiences--which is what also makes it excellent i

Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Bring copies of your work in progress - journal, story, poem, novel, play or essay. Read it aloud and take notes as the workshop quotes your own most powerful lines back to you.

Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:00 pm

Bring copies of your work in progress - journal, story, poem, novel, play or essay. Read it aloud and take notes as the workshop quotes your own most powerful lines back to you.

Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

This ten week course for beginning writers helps you assess your potential, identify your strengths, and learn valuable writing techniques.

Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am

September 24-27---------Southern Independent Booksellers Association Trade Show in Greenville, SC

October 8-11------------Southern Festival of Reading in Nashville

October 20--------------UNI Bo

Start: 6:16 am
End: 6:16 am

For students with at least 150 pages of a novel, this advanced course focuses on elements of technique and vision necessary for a work to be considered complete.

Start: 4:17 pm
End: 4:17 pm

Appearances & Signings:

Sunday, October 4th. West Hollywood Book Fair.
I will be participating in the panel, "The Long Road, "Book to Film."

Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm

Fall is the perfect time to get back into writing with "Telling Your Story" at Seattle's Richard Hugo House.

Start: 1:32 pm
End: 1:32 pm

The Ghosts of Eden has been nominated for the Waverton Good Read Award. This is an award for a debut novel and is voted for by the people of the village of Waverton in Cheshire, England.

Start: 9:00 am
End: 6:00 pm

Exploring a region’s food and wine offers fascinating glimpses into local personalities, and reflections of the history and culture of a people.

Start: 7:50 pm
End: 7:50 pm

3 days of readings, workshops and performances by LGBTQ writers, poets, playwrights and performers.
I'll be reading at noon on November 7th at the Decatur Library, along with Sara Amis and Lara Zieli

Start: 11:00 am
End: 8:43 am

Three day celebration of poetry with readings and performances by: Kathryn Stripling Byer, Frank X Walker, Leroy Bynum & doris davenport.
Also includes special workshops for and performances by stud

Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am

Writers Conference
November 6 and 7, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Maxine Hong Kingston
Award-winning author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and featuring an agents panel, workshop

Start: 8:00 am
End: 11:59 pm

Opening Plenary: Shira Tarrant, Patricia Eng, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Courtney Martin with Michael Kimmel as moderator.

Across the country, groups of male students are making their voices heard!

Start: 8:00 am
End: 6:30 pm

The Sisters in Crime chapter of Columbus, Ohio, is sponsoring its first Midwest writers' conference, Bodies and Buckeyes. It's a one-day affair on Nov. 7th from 8 a.m. until 6:30 p.m.

Start: 9:30 am
End: 4:30 pm

You may have wonderful ideas for your novel, fascinating characters, and beautiful writing, but those attributes alone won't tie a novel together.

Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:29 pm

Writers and booklovers alike are invited to the first ever Dark & Stormy Book Weekend in Manzanita Oregon November 7-8, 2009.

Start: 10:00 am
End: 4:00 pm

There's a big book and craft fair this Saturday in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm

LIVE NOVEMBER 07 - Broadcast from the New Freight and Salvage theatre in Downtown Berkeley

Start: 9:30 am
End: 5:00 pm

The Book Fair for the State of Ohio

Start: 10:30 am
End: 1:00 pm

Private seminar. For information: speaking@mylenedressler.com

Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm

Multi-author book signing.

Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

Readings from Justin Chin, Sarah Gambito, Maiana Minahal, and Marianne Villanueva

Free

SATURDAY Nov. 7, 2009. 2 p.m.
The Bayanihan Center, 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco

Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

Diane will read with Charles H. Johnson. The reading will take place in Tulipwood, a beautiful restored Victorian house.

Start: 5:03 pm
End: 6:00 pm

35th Anniversary of Atlanta's feminist bookstore.
4 days of author readings and signings, including Alice Walker, Pearl Cleage,Gloria Steinem, the Indigo Girls and others, including me.

Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Contributors read from Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues.

Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm

Reading and Discussion on Class/Warfare with Mark Nowak, Reid Gómez and Rachel Loden at Small Press Traffic.

As you well know, for over 35 years Small Press Traffic has been at the heart of where

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Judy Joy Jones to be interviewed on 'Mama Joyce Show' about her book; 'The Bones of the Homeless', her opera libretto on Frida Kahlo, & her painting of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India on Saturday; 11

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