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WOMEN'S FICTION FESTIVAL 2006
With the support of:
US Consul Naples
Ministero per le Pari Opportunità
Regione Basilicata
Azienda di Promozione Turistica
Soprintendenza PSAE di Basilicata
Provincia di Matera
Comune di Matera
Università di Basilicata
Ente Parco della Murgia Materana
Camera di Commercio Matera
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WOMEN'S FICTION FESTIVAL 2006
MURDER AND MAYHEM IN MATERA!
Join us in Matera, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, from September 20th to September 23rd, 2006 for one of the most unique writer's conferences ever. We have a full slate of editors and agents, who will be taking appointments. Editors: Catherine Burke , Harlequin Enterprises; Hilary Sares, Kensington Publishing; Karen Kosztolnyik, Warner Books; Beverley Cousins, Penguin Books, Laurence Colchester, Bitter Lemon Press; Julia Eisele, Random House Germany; Isolde Wehr, Moments Verlag; Maria Paola Romeo, Sperling & Kupfer; Gaspare Bona, Instar Publishing. Agents: Helen Breitwieser, Cornerstone Literary Agency; Jane Gregory, Gregory & Company.
Book your editor and agents appointments online.
Email Janette Mathias
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BRIEFINGS FOR THRILLER WRITERS
This year the Women's Fiction Festival will highlight mysteries, thrillers and suspense novels, the genre guaranteed to run a chill of excitement down your spine.
The Women's Fiction Festival will make available to writers a wealth of background information in our ground-breaking Briefings series of lectures. Learn everything you need to know to make your novel as authentic as possible from the experts.
These are our Briefings experts: the US Consul General of the Rome Embassy on life in the diplomatic corps; a former senior State Department official on intelligence gathering; the FBI Rome Legat on how Legat offices work; Frank Ahearn, America's foremost skip tracer on how to disappear abroad, Europe's foremost female private investigator, a criminologist consultant to the UN on human trafficking and money laundering, a senior official of Italy's Secret Service, Digos, on combating terrorism; Italy's top crime scene analyst and forensic entomologist, Professor Introna - these experts and more will be in Matera to help you plot your next bestseller.
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MASTER CLASSES AND MORE
Whether you're writing a thriller or not, you'll learn an immense amount of information about the craft of fiction writing from some of the best writers around in our Master Classes.
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PUBLIC EVENTS
As is our tradition by now, the writer's conference in the mornings will be followed by events open to the public in the evenings, a unique opportunity for writers to interact with their readers in this most mysterious and beautiful of cityscapes, Matera. Each evening, writers of all nationalities and experts in crime will be engaged in lively debates on all aspects of mystery and thriller writing and the art of fiction writing. But come early and join us beforehand in our Happy Hour program - intimate meetings with writers and readers over drinks and munchies in a sun-drenched piazza.
CHECK THE PROGRAM
You won't want to miss it!
Check the program.
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New!! Check out the interview with chicklit mystery author Alesia Holliday and stay tuned for an interview with senior editor Karen Kosztolnyik of Warner Books!
 La Baccante
Each year, the Women's Fiction Festival awards its literary prize, the La Baccante award, to someone who has made major contributions to women's fiction. The literary prize is a jewel hand-crafted by a talented local artist. The ‘La Baccante’ prize this year goes to Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett, one of Europe’s finest mystery writers, the winner of the 1997 Feminino Lumen prize as best Spanish writer. The ‘La Baccante’ prize was awarded to Maria Venturi, in 2004 and to Inge Feltrinelli,in 2005.
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