WRITER'S ROAD TRIP - ANNUAL MINI WRITERS CONFERENCE
Sponsored by Pennwriters, Inc., October 5, 2024
Zem Zem Banquet & Conference Center
2525 West 38th Street, Erie, PA
2024 SPEAKERS
Janyce Brawn
Janyce Brawn, a retired Art/ESL/Spanish teacher, is the author and illustrator of the middle-grade Tales of the Teleporting Topsider series. She has written and illustrated for books and the poetry magazine, Time of Singing, for over 25 years. Her fourth novel in the series, David and the Foglinian Menace, was published by Dragonfly Publishing, Inc. in the summer of 2023.
Annette Dashofy
Annette Dashofy is the USA Today best-selling author of fourteen mystery novels including Helpless, the latest in the Zoe Chambers mystery series about a paramedic turned coroner in rural southwestern Pennsylvania. the multi–Agatha Award nominated Zoe Chambers mystery series about a paramedic and deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance Township. Her upcoming novel, Where The Guilty Hide, which came out in January is the first in the new Detective Honeywell series set in Erie. Her standalone, Death By Equine, won the 2021 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, and she is a six-time finalist for the Agatha Award. Annette is a long-time member of Pennwriters and is president of the Pittsburgh chapter of Sisters in Crime. Visit her website at: www.annettedashofy.com.
Susan Gable
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Karen Geiger
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Susan Gottfried
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Hana Haatainen-Caye
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Catherine McLean
Catherine has been helping writers become published authors for more than two decades. She is a novelist and short story author and long-time Pennwriter who gives in-person and online courses and workshops on the craft of writing fiction. She is a book and story writing coach and freelance editor. Her book for writers, Revision is a Process - How to Take the Frustration Out of Self-Editing. Visit Catherine at www.CatherineEmclean.com or www.WritersCheatSheets.com.
Janet Pierce
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Debra Rae Sanchez
Debra R. Sanchez has moved over thirty times...so far. She and her husband have three adult children, six grandchildren, and a dog. She leads and attends various writing groups in the Pittsburgh area and also hosts writing retreats. In addition, she teaches and tutors Spanish and ESL to people of all ages and is a freelance (English/Spanish) translator.
Her bilingual picture book And My Mother Cried/Y Mi Mamá Lloró won The Author Zone TAZ Award for "Best Children's Book 2017" and her writing guide Prompted, Prodded, Published: How Writing Prompts Can Help All Writers was awarded 2nd place TAZ Award in the business book category. In 2018, her book Raw & Unfinished received a TAZ award in the poetry division. In 2020, her bilingual picture book What's that Noise? ¿Qué ruido es? was published. In 2021, she had two bilingual picture books published; Chocolate Spaghetti for Breakfast/Espaguetis de Chocolate para el Desayuno and So Much Fun/¡Muy Divertido! and also another writing guide book, Looks Matter: Beyond Judging the Cover. In 2022, her bilingual picture book Flutter Me By/Pelusas de Hadas was released. Her other writing has won awards at writers’ Conferences in various genres, including children's stories, poetry, fantasy, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Several of her plays and monologues have been produced and published. Her other works have been published in literary magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.
Debra graduated from Westminster College in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in Communications and a double minor in English and Writing. Debra is also a writing coach, freelance translator (English/Spanish) and language tutor (Spanish/ESL). Her writing is as varied as her publisher’s genres, and several of her books have been published. Her other work has been published in literary magazines (print and online) and several of her plays and monologues have been published and/or produced. You can find more information about her on her website: www.debrarsanchez.com/
Mary Sutton
Writing as Liz Milliron, Mary Sutton is the author of the Laurel Highlands mystery series, starring a Pennsylvania State Trooper and a Fayette County public defender in the scenic Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania. She is also the author of the Homefront Mysteries, set in Buffalo, NY in the early years of WWII. The series features Betty Ahern, a Rosie the Riveter turned Sam Spade. Liz is a past president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of Sisters in Crime and the current Vice President. She is also a member of International Thriller Writers, Pennwriters, and the Historical Novel Society. Liz splits her time between homes in Pittsburgh and the Laurel Highlands, where she lives with her husband and a very spoiled retired-racer greyhound. Visit Mary on her website at: www.lizmilliron.com
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