The annual Kachmeak Bay Writer’s Conference, currently underway in Homer, features 18 nationally recognized authors of nonfiction, poetry and fiction from Alaska and the Lower 48.
Though registration to the conference is closed, its Festival of Readings is open to the public and free of charge. All readings are in Homer.
Festival events include:
• A reading by National Book Award-winning nature writer Barry Lopez, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 9 at Homer High School Mariner Theater. Doors at 7:30 p.m., seating limited.
Barry Lopez
• Readings by the following Alaska writers Sunday, June 10, 7:30 p.m. at Alice’s Champagne Palace:
Elizabeth Dodd
Camille Dungy
Daryl Farmer
Dan O’Neill
Ann Pancake
Eva Saulitis
Peggy Shumaker
• Readings by the following Alaska writers Monday, June 11, 7:30 p.m. at Land’s End Resort:
James Englehardt
Debra Gwartney
Nancy Lord
Valerie Miner
Don Rearden
Sherry Simpson
Amber Flora Thomas
Book signings follow all readings.
For more information call 907.235.7743 or click here.
The 2012 Kachemak Bay Writer’s Conference is supported by a $7,000 Alaska Humanities Forum general grant.
