Recent Events

June 13-20 2008: International Women's Writing Guild Conference, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.


 May 22, The Noir Side of the Sun: Crimes, Mysteries & Thrillers Miami Style, 6:30 PM Soya  e Pomodoro, 120 NE 1st St., Miami. 

 A Write Out Loud reading, sponsored by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. Featuring Lynne Barrett, James O. Born, Edna Buchanan, Vicki Hendricks, Paul Levine, Bob Norman, and Bob Williamson.

 

 May 20, Open Doors presented an Evening of Poetry and Storytelling.  Lynne Barrett, Leonard Nash, Nina Romano read .  Open Doors, Miami Modern District, 7300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami.  A reading at a furniture store?  Why, yes.

The Miami Herald's Ben Candea reports on the evening.

Tom Swick's blog at the Sun-Sentinel describes this event and other doings on the Upper East Side.


April 12-13, Master Class: Saturday: "The Map of the Story: Story, Scene, Movement, Territory,", Sunday Master Class in Fiction,  Geneva Writer's Group, Geneva, Switzerland.

                                          Geneva Press Club 

 

Saturday, March 29, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.: Workshop: "21st Century Noir," at the Florida Center for the Book, Broward Public Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL.  Chauncey Mabe of the Sun-Sentinel gave this workshop a great write-up on his blog.  This workshop was part of The Big Read  For info on other Florida Center for the Book events, e-mail.

 

 

 

 

Kind words from Chauncey Mabe of the Sun-Sentinel for my workshop at the Florida Center for the Book in March.


 

Monday, March 10: A Hell of A Woman, A Conversation, with Megan Abbott, Lynne Barrett & Vicki Hendricks.                                                          —10 a.m., Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Ave., Room 2106, Miami                                                                                                               —1:30 p.m., Miami Dade College, Hialeah Campus, 1780 W. 49th St., Hialeah  Co-presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts and the student life department at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus in celebration of
Women's History Month.  Free and open to the public.

 

Saturday, March 8, American Association of  University Women Book Brunch, Riverside Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, FL .

 

2007~~ 

December 7: Launch of A Hell of a Woman at Murder on the Beach in Delray Beach, FL. 

Lynne Barrett & Vicki Hendricks read from their stories in  the new anthology of female noir and answered questions.

 

 

 

A Murder on the Beach denizen appreciates A Hell of a Woman 

 

Miami Book Fair International 

November 10th & 11th: The Florida Book Review took on live-blogging at the Book Fair, coordinated by Lynne.  Read her piece on Richard Russo and the questions authors are asked here and blogging by FBR staff, book fair attendees, and other authors here.

Noir Fiction, the Darker Side of Literature Sunday, Nov. 11th at 12:30 P.M.  featured  Megan Abbott, Lynne Barrett, John Bond, John Dufresne, & Vicki Hendricks reading from their work and discussing what the heck Noir is, anyway, to a lively audience that packed Centre Gallery at Miami Dade College.  Lynne & Vicki read from their stories in A Hell of A Woman, an anthology of female noir edited by Megan Abbott.  There's a blurry photo of the panel up on John Dufresne's blog.

Earlier in 2007, on the Miami Noir touring trail...

LB, Vicki Hendricks, Jeff Wehr, George Tucker, Barbara Parker at Murder on the Beach.