WOMEN'S FICTION FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL WRITER'S CONFERENCE 2005

The Women's Fiction Festival is organizing a writer's conference in Matera , Italy , from the 28th of September to the 1st of October, 2005. It is an RWA-sponsored event for published and unpublished writers to meet editors, booksellers, book publicists and translators. Meet the European book market and learn about the new trends and genres driving the world's largest book market. The WFF also includes writer workshops.

The WFF will provide simultaneous interpretation into and out of English and Italian.

Conference participants are welcome to the receptions, food and wine tastings and events open to the public, the book signings and to the concert and awarding of the ‘ La Baccante ' literary prize, followed by a gala dinner.

Please note that this program is temporary - the definitive program is coming soon
Events with an asterisk * will have simultaneous interpretation English-Italian

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

*9:30 am - 10:00 am Palazzo Lanfranchi - Sala delle Arcate
Welcome and introduction
Elizabeth Jennings, President, Women's Fiction Festival Association
Maria Paola Romeo, Editorial Director, Women's Fiction Festival Association

*10:00 am - 10:45 am
Introduction to the Food and Wine Writing Course -
Food Anthropology of the South
Dorothy Zinn, Anthropologist

*11:00 am - 1:00 pm
European Book Market
Panelists: Karin Stoecker, Editorial Director Harlequin Mills & Boon
Isolde Wehr, Editor Moment Verlag
Nikki Read, Editorial Director, Transita
Gillian Green, Editor Piatkus Publishing
Ornella Robbiati, editor Sonzogno
Moderated by: Maria Paola Romeo

SPOTLIGHT ON…
*5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
How to Break Into Chicklit
Deanna Carlyle

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

*9:30 am - 11:30 am Palazzo Lanfranchi - Sala delle Arcate
Book Distribution Channels in Europe
Panelists: Ornella Matarrese, Bookstore owner
Luca Domeniconi, Director of the Feltrinelli bookstore chain
Giovanni Moliterni, Bookstore owner and organizer of the Women's Fiction Festival

SPOTLIGHT ON...
*12.00 am - 13.00 am
A Novelist in Tinseltown
Liana Merrill

Friday, September 30th, 2005

*9:30 am - 11:30 am Palazzo Lanfranchi - Sala delle Arcate
Literary Agents Explain the Wild and Woolly World of Foreign Rights
Panelists: Vicki Satlow, American agent based in Italy
Luigi Bonomi, English Agent based in London
Stefano Tettamanti, Agent based in Milan
Moderated by: Elizabeth Jennings

SPOTLIGHT ON...
*5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The New Historical Romance
Sarah Dunant

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

*9:30 am - 11:30 am Palazzo Lanfranchi - Sala delle Arcate
Not Lost in Translation
Panelists: Maria Grazia Mazzitelli
Daniela Bianchi
Maria Rosaria Buri
Adele D'Arcangelo
Tiziana Tursi
Ute Christine Geiler
Moderated by: Elizabeth Jennings

SPOTLIGHT ON...
*11.30 am - 12.15 am
Meet Harlequin
Panelists: Alessandra Bazardi, Editorial Director Harlequin Mondadori
Karin Stoecker, Editorial Director Harlequin Mills & Boon