News

"Texaco on Biscayne" is just out in Saw Palm's first print issue.  Some excerpts from the issue are now online.

 

"Elvis Lives," translated into Japanese, will appear in a collection of Edgar winning stories to be published by Hayakawa Publishing, Tokyo, Japan.


"Blues for Veneece" will be published this fall in the Bleak House Press anthology Delta Blues, edited by Carolyn Haines with an introduction by Morgan Freeman.  It is rumored that I will be singing with a writers blues band at the launch at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi Oct. 3rd.

Upcoming Appearances


June 12-19, 2009: International Women's Writing Guild Remember the Magic Conference, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. 

 

Oct. 3, Launch reading for Mississippi Delta Blues anthology, Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarkesdale, MS.

Oct. 17, 2009: All-day workshop "The Map of Story," as part of the International Women's Writing Guild's Big Apple Weekend, NYC. 

Oct. 22-24, F.I.U. Hutchinson Island Writers Conference, Hutchinson Island, FL.

Nov. 5-8 2009, FGCU Sanibel Writer's Conference, Sanibel Island, FL. 

Recent events

 

 

  

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






 

June 6, 2009: One day workshop, "Plot: The Map of the Story," at Grub Street, Boston, MA. More info. soon.


May 16, 2009: At 7 PM, I was part of the Lip Service reading at Book & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL.  

 And earlier that day I spoke on "The Rift: Creating Complex Characters" at the monthly lunch meeting of the Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. 


May 6-9, 2009:  Florida Center for the Literary Arts Writers Institute, Miami, FL   I taught a workshop called "Understanding Plot."  There are workshops, lectures, readings, manuscript critiques, pitching sessions, at the downtown Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College.

I coordinated the www.floridabookreview.com  live-blogging of the 25th annual Miami Book Fair International Nov. 15-16.  Read it online to see what the Book Fair was like.

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

Tom DeMarchi, director of the conference, talks about it online at The Southeast Review. 

 

Chatting with Jeanne Leiby at Big Arts, the site of the Sanibel Conference.

 

 

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


Bits & Pieces

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 up on www.floridabookreview.com.

This Week In Class

For those of you interested in plot, the reading for my Fall 2008 graduate Form & Theory: Plot course is posted on my Events and Photos page.  In Spring 09 I taught Advanced Fiction Workshop and Special Topics: Mystery & Suspense.  Coming up in Fall 09: Special Topics: Creative Nonfiction.

Teaching

     At Florida International University, I teach graduate  and undergraduate workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, and  graduate seminars.   In Spring 2009 I am teaching an advanced undergraduate course in Mystery & Suspense, and graduate Fiction Workshop.   In Fall  I taught 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! 

Most recent publication news:

J.J. Colagrande's novel Headz is just out from BlazeVox books.  The webpage for the book contains some of the outtakes, and other wonderful sidelights.

Anjanette Delgado's The Heartbreak Pill was published by Atria (Simon & Schuster). Anjanette has won the 2009 Latino Book Award for Best Romance in English for The Heartbreak Pill.   The Spanish language version, Pildora del Mal Amor, is due out in August 2009.

Patricia Engel's short story collection, Vida, will be published by Grove/Atlantic in Fall 2010.

Jesse Millner's newest poetry collection, The Neighborhoods of Past Sorrow, has been published by Kitsune Books.

 Ian Vasquez's second novel, Lonesome Point, has just been published by St. Martin's and has gotten a great advance review from Booklist.  His first novel, In The Heat, came out last summer.  Reviewed in the St. Pete Times.

Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow, who was co-author , with the late Randy Pausch, of The Last Lecture, has a new book out, The Girls from Ames.

Dennis Lehane's historical novel The Given Day came out last fall.  On his website, you can see photographs of some of the dramatic events from 1919 that the book weaves together.  Here's the New York Times review by Janet Maslin. A wonderful excerpt from the novel appeared a couple of years back in an issue of Gulf Stream Magazine that should be a collector's item.

Lots more:

Preston Allen, All or Nothing (Akashic Books)  was reviewed in The New York Times.   (Preston's blog is full of news of writing and gambling, both risky enterprises.)

Lynn Kiele Bonasia's first novel, Some Assembly Required,  Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), debuted in July 2008.

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

Susan Briante's book of poetry, Pioneers in the Study of Motion, from Ahsahta press.

Joe Clifford's story "Favors," is online in Dark Sky Magazine.

Anthony Gagliano, Straits of Fortune, was published by HarperCollins. 

Christine Kling, Wrecker's Key. 

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

Rita Maria Martinez, Jane in the Box.

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.

Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century, an anthology edited by Norman Minnick will be published by White Pine Press in March 2010.  Norm's book of poetry To Taste the Water was published by Mid-list 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 08 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.

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