This will be a conversational event, with time for lots of Q&A, with Rioghnach Robinson, the author of seven YA novels. Outside the YA fiction world, she recently signed with an agent for her first novel for adult audiences.

In this workshop, we will write poems rooted in place, and dive deeper into the genius loci of our personal geographies to write poems which immerse the reader more fully in the land that informs and shapes our work.

This will be a conversational event, with time for lots of Q&A, with A.G. Griffin, the author of three series (13 science-fiction/thriller novels). He will talk about how he made the leap to the larger publishing world, relying on the path he traveled self-marketing his works.