Dwyer will be among more than 20 contemporary authors and poetic artists featured at “LitFest 2009, A Celebration for Word Lovers.” The public is invited to enjoy writing workshops, readings by the novelists and poets, and opportunities to meet the authors.
Food from Schat’s Bakery and the Mendocino College Latino Club will be available. For more information about LitFest 2009, call the Mendocino College Library at 707.468.3051 or visit the event website, www.mendocino.edu/litfest.
The one-day literary festival is sponsored by the Mendocino College Foundation, the Friends of the Mendocino College Library, and several additional supporters, noted John Koetzner, head librarian at Mendocino College.
Mendocino resident Dwyer was added to the program when fiction writer Josh Bazell canceled his appearance due to personal reasons, according to Koetzner. Dwyer’s “Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein” is a nominee finalist for the 2009 Northern California Book Award in Fiction. It is also a finalist for the 2008 Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction from ForeWords Magazine and is the winner of the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group’s 2008 “Indie” Book Award for Historical Fiction.
The celebration will feature additional readings by fiction writers Hal Zina Bennett, Marc Bojanowski, and Sheldon Siegel, and by poets Dan Barth, James BlueWolf, Armand Brint, Armando Garcia-Davila, Mary Norbert Korte, Jim Lyle, Linda Noel, Mary McMillan, Richard Schmidt, David Smith-Ferri, Sandra Wade, Theresa Whitehill, and Carolyn Wing Greenlee.
Writers Jody Gehrman, Kim Green, Charlotte Gullick, Rebecca Lawton with Jordan Rosenfeld, Amy Wachspress with Terena Scott, and Jean Hegland will offer workshops. It is recommended that writers who want to attend the writing workshops sign up in advance by visiting the LitFest website, www.mendocino.edu/litfest.
