(April 13, 2011 – Littleton, Colorado) – The Writers Studio at Arapahoe Community College (ACC) will sponsor the Fifth Annual Spring Literary Festival from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 30 in the College’s Half Moon. The event will feature workshops, readings, an awards presentation and lunch.

“Our yearly literary festival is our favorite event,” said Dr. Kathryn Winograd, coordinator of the ACC Writers Studio.  “Each year we offer outstanding writers who have the gift for both teaching craft and inspiring creativity. It is a great opportunity for anyone who loves to write to participate in professional workshops by nationally published authors at such a low cost.”

This year’s festival will include workshops by authors Page Lambert, Mary Crockett Hill, Robert Greer, Carol Guerrero-Murphy and Will Hobbs. These authors will host the following workshops:

Nonfiction Workshop: The Man in the Moon: Finding that Universal Theme by Page Lambert. Lambert is the author of the memoir In Search of Kinship and the novel Shifting Stars. She has won the 2009 Orlando Nonfiction Award and the Willa Cather Award.

Multi-genre Workshop: The Turncoat Poet: Collaborations and Crossing Genres by Mary Crockett Hill. Hill is the author of If You Return Home With Food. Hill’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines, as well as on Poetry Daily and in American Poetry: The Next Generation. She is a co-author of the history A Town by the Name of Salem. She has won the Bluestem Award and the 2008 Autumn House Poetry Prize.

Fiction Workshop: Creating Minor Characters in Your Fiction who are Capable of Stealing the Show by Robert Greer. Greer is the founder and editor-in-chief of the literary journal, The High Plains Literary Review. His novels, First of State and Spoon were numbers five and six on The Denver Post bestseller list.  He is the winner of the 2010 Colorado Book Award for literary fiction.

Poetry Workshop: Yoked by Violence Together by Carol Guerrero-Murphy. Guerrero-Murphy is the author of Table Walking at Nighthawk. Her work has been published in many journals including The American Poetry Review, Bloomsbury Review, and Pilgrimage, and several anthologies.  She has been a recipient of the WILLA Finalist award. Her current manuscript, Birth, Death, and Other Pastures, was a finalist in the Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize.

Young Adult Writing Workshop: Everything I Know in Two Hours, by Will Hobbs. Hobbs is the award-winning author of 18 outdoor adventure novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. Seven of his novels have been named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association, and two of his titles, Far North and Downriver, were included in the American Library Association’s list of the “100 Best Young Adult Books of the 20th Century.”

Advanced registration is required to attend the festival. The fee is $45 for two workshops and $25 for one workshop. Lunch will be included with all reservations. A portion of the proceeds will go toward the Writers Studio Scholarship Fund.  The deadline to register is April 25.

For more information, contact Dr. Kathryn Winograd at 303.797.5715 or Kathryn.Winograd@arapahoe.edu.

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