Attn: Online registration is not available for the time being. If you would like to register now, please register via fax: 240-314-8669 or mail to: F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, 111 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850.
Please contact us by email, or call at 301-309-9461 if you have any questions. |
Short Story Contest
The FSF Short Story is accepting submissions. Send in your polished and unpublished stories of no more than 3,000 words. First prize includes $1000, presented at the 14th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, and publication in The Potomac Review. Three runner-ups will receive $200 each at the conference. There is a $25 entry fee for the adult contest, but no entry fee for the high school students, and the deadline to enter is July 17, 2009.
Julia Alvarez Announced as Next F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Honoree
Popular novelist Julia Alvarez has been announced as the 2009 honoree for the prestigious F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Award. She will accept the award at the 14th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference on October 17.
Julia Alvarez is an author who excels in multiple fields of writing: storybooks for children, young adult books, nonfiction, poetry — and most notably, novels. She is best known for critically acclaimed novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accentsand In the Time of the Butterflies. More recent fiction includes Return to Sender and Saving the World.
In being selected as an F. Scott Fitzgerald Honoree, Julia Alvarez Leonard joins an impressive group of talented authors. Previous award winners to accept the Fitzgerald award at the annual conference in Rockville, Maryland include John Updike, Norman Mailer, E.L. Doctorow, Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest J. Gaines, Edward Albee , William Styron, John Barth, Grace Paley, Pat Conroy, William J. Kennedy, and Jane Smiley. Last year’s honoree was Elmore “Dutch” Leonard.
Support comes from the City of Rockville, Montgomery College, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Gazette Newspapers, the Rockville Cultural Arts Commission, Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation, Ltd., Vermont Coffee Company, Roundhouse Theater and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society.
Learn more about Julia Alvarez and her work at her website.
www.juliaalvarez.com
Make plans to see Julia Alvarez in person at the next F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference on October 17, 2009. Stay tuned to the conference website for details as they become available.
www.peerlessrockville.org/FSF
If you have any questions, you can email us at FSFconference@gmail.com or potomacrevieweditor@montgomerycollege.edu.
Thank you for your interest!
|
|