lynne.barrett - Lynne Barrett

Alice Baudat of the Geneva Writers Group did this watercolor of Lynne teaching in Switzerland in April 2008.

Upcoming Appearances:

Oct. 22-25, 2008: FIU Writers Conference on Hutchinson Island, FL

Nov. 6-8, 2008: FGCU Sanibel Writers Conference, Sanibel Island, FL

May 6-8, 2009: Florida Center for the Literary Arts Writers Institute, Miami, FL

The Latest:

Some nice words for "Blue Vandas" and A Hell of A Woman. More from Booklist Online.

My take on the banned-in-Miami 1961 memoir Pleasure Was My Business, by Madam Sherry, is just up on www.floridabookreview.com.

Campaign Season: I reviewed From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans for FBR.

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

Recent Events:

For info, photos, and coverage of recent appearances, please check out my Events & Photos page.

This Week In Plot:

For those of you interested in plot, I'm posting the reading for my Fall 2008 Form & Theory Plot class here. For Aug. 25: Aristotle's Poetics and Graham Greene's The Third Man.

Teaching:

At Florida International University, I teach graduate and undergraduate workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, and graduate seminars. In Spring 2008, I taught a new graduate course, Mystery and Suspense, and an undergraduate workshop in creative nonfiction. In Fall 2008 I'm teaching Form & Theory: Plot. I'm directing several MFA theses and two grad. students in an independent study research project about the poetry community in Miami in the 1930s & 1940s. I also teach at writers' conferences and travel to lead master classes for smaller groups.

This April I went to Switzerland to speak to the Geneva Writer's Group on "The Map of the Story: Scene, Movement, Territory" and to teach a Master Class in Fiction.

Geneva Press Club

Recent and upcoming publications by former students:

Former students: send me your info!

In bookstores now:

Lynn Kiele Bonasia's first novel, Some Assembly Required, Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), debuted in July.

Ian Vasquez's first novel, In The Heat, St. Martin's, came out in June. Reviewed in the St. Pete Times.

Preston Allen's All or Nothing (Akashic) was reviewed June 15 in The New York Times.

Anjanette Delgado's The Heartbreak Pill came out in May from Atria (Simon & Schuster).

Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow is co-author , with Randy Pausch, of The Last Lecture.

Lots more:

Preston Allen, All or Nothing, Akashic Books (Preston's blog is full of news of writing and gambling, both risky enterprises.)

Best American Mystery Stories 2007 includes "T-bird" by John Bond.

Anthony Gagliano, Straits of Fortune, HarperCollins.

Christine Kling, Wrecker's Key.

Dennis Lehane's collection of stories, Coronado, is out in paperback. And Gone Baby Gone is on dvd.

Mark M. Martin's creating Dada Comics at Europiummm.

Jesse Millner's I Give You This Ghost, Pudding House Press, just came out, on the heels of The Saturday After the Rapture, Main Street Rag Press.

Diane Mooney, MFA student, is teaching in China and has a blog about her adventures eating there: Have You Eaten Yet?

Leonard Nash, You Can't Get There From Here, Kitsune Books. Leonard's book has won the Silver Medal for Fiction from the Florida Book Awards.

John Parras's Fire on Mount Maggiore won the Peter Taylor Prize and was published by the University of Tennessee Press.

Neil Plakcy, Mahu Fire, Mahu Surfer. And Neil has edited the collection Paws and Reflect.

Sandra Rodriguez Barron, The Heiress of Water, Rayo, a division of HarperCollins. Winner of the Mariposa Award for Best First Book, 2007 International Latino Book Awards.

Nina Romano, Cooking Lessons, Rock Press (Nina's blog offers cooking lore and writing adventures.)

Ginny Rorby's young adult novel Hurt Go Happy, Starscape, has been garnering lots of prizes for its wonderful description of a deaf young teen.

Sue Stauffacher is the author of several books for young readers, including Bessie Smith and the Night Riders and Nothing But Trouble The Story of Althea Gibson.

George Tucker's story "Circle" appeared in the May issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. And another , "Learning to Fly," is being reprinted in a coming-of-age anthology from New Press. George's blog takes you inside the writing process.