Please use the SHARE buttons to forward this news Longleaf Educational Services (501-3c) recently announced the 11th annual Longleaf Writers Conference scheduled to take place May 11-18, 2024, in Seaside, Florida, as part of Art Week South Walton. The Longleaf Writers Conference includes a full week of intensive writing workshops, one-day seminars, agent consultations, school outreach programs and social events. The conference, which takes place at the Seaside Institute and other local venues in Seaside, Florida, provides an opportunity for beginning, intermediate, and advanced writers to celebrate writing, network, and hone their craft. Visiting authors Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master’s Son – Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fortune Smiles – National Book Award Winner) and poet Maggie Smith (Good Bones, Keep Moving, You Could Make This Place Beautiful) will each lead a seminar and a public reading while guest literary agents Anjali Singh (Ayeshe Pande Literary), Martha Wydysh (Trident Media Group), and two other agents to be named later, will offer seminars and one-on-one consultations with attendees. “We are fortunate to continue to attract high-caliber writers such as Adam Johnson and Maggie Smith,” said LWC co-founder and Creative Director Matt Bondurant (The Wettest County In The World, made into the film Lawless; The Night Swimmer; Oleander City). “And there is no other writers conference that allows you to step out of intimate workshops with national award-winning authors and agents directly onto the white sand of the Gulf of Mexico. Our writers love that, and they also appreciate the people and culture of...
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