SCHEDULE 2010

By Barbara Chai

Beginning in April 2010, Abroad Writers' Conference will be holding special writers' workshops on a lovely houseboat in Sausalito, CA. Every month we will featuring different award winning authors. To lauch this new program, Best Selling Author, Jacqueline Mitchard will be teaching a workshop for one week. Jacquelyn Mitchard is the New York Times bestselling author of The Breakdown Lane, Twelve Times Blessed, and The Deep End of the Ocean, which was the very first book picked by Oprah for her book club. Now You See Her was Jackie's debut young adult novel, and she also has several children's books to her credit: Baby Bat's Lullaby; Starring Prima!; Ready, Set, School!; and Rosalie, My Rosalie. Additional authors will be announced.

Four Award Winning Authors, teaching four writing workshops, for seven stimulating days in a 14th century French Chateau in Brittany. AUTHORS: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, LILY TUCK; NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, DAN CHAON and JOAN SILBER; PUSHCART AWARD WINNER, AIMEE BENDER

TRAVEL, FOOD, FINE WINE and SHORT STORY WRITERS will be joining us on this exciting event in Tuscany while we hunt for WHITE TRUFFLE. November is the month of white truffle festivals in northern Italy. Throughout Tuscany, towns celebrate eating the most expensive mushroom in the world. AWARD WINNING Authors: Nationl Book Award Winner, LILY TUCK, TRAVEL WRITER/DAVID FARLEY--Los Angeles Times has named David Farley's 2009 travel book as one of the top 10 books of the year; FOOD and COOKBOOK AUTHOR/Chef MICHELE SCICOLONE--Michele has written 13 award winning cookbooks; WINE and FOOD WRITER/CHARLES SCICOLONE--The New York Times calls Charles, “The Maestro of Italian Wines”. For seven days, you'll be learning how to write about food, wine and travel in Italy.

Have you seen the movie, "THE QUEEN"? Blairquhan Castle is where they filmed "The Queen", in Scotland. In June, Abroad Writers' Conference is proud to annouce, we will be holding our conference/workshops at Blairquhan Castle. Blairquhan castle is one of the finest Regency castles in Scotland and it's been discreetly modernised to provide comfort. Blairquhan castle is located in southern Scotland, an hour from Glasgow. This magnificent castle is situated on 2,000 acres of gardens and woodlands. INSTRUCTORS: EDWARD HUMES, Pulitizer Prize winner; RUSSELL CELYN JONES, Booker Prize judge in 2002, staff reviewer for London Times and Director of the MA Creative Writing program at Birkbeck College, University of London; JOAN SILBER, 2004 National Book Award finalist, PEN/HEMINGWAY Award, and winner of the PUSHCART and O'HENRY Prize for short-stories; the Highly Acclaimed Playwright, CONSTANCE CONGDON, her plays have beenn produced in Moscow, Helsinki, Brixton, Manchester, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shelykovah, Russia, as well as all over the United States. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, a member of PEN and the Dramatists Guild, and currently teaches playwriting at Amherst College; NAHID RACHLIN, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award; Poet, KAZIM ALI; SOPHIE POWELL, Agent/Author. Additional Authors will to be announced. Workshops will be held in fiction, non-fiction, memoir, playwriting and poetry. Limited to 11 single rooms and 22 shared rooms. Student have a choice of taking two workshops.

Abroad Writers' Conference is proud to be holding Kolkata's first major literary Conference in their historic City of Joy. This large literary conference and workshop will take place at the Victoria Memorial Museum and the Oberoi Hotel. We will have 40 Authors including two Nobel Prize winners and literary agents. Authors: CHRIS ABANI-- Pen/Hemingway, WILLIAM DALRYMPLE-- Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography, JUNOT DIAZ—Pulitzer Prize winner, MARK DOTY—National book award winner, ARIEL DORFMAN, LAURA ESQUIvEL –-Academy Award winning screenplay, KAREN JOY FOWLER—Pen/Faulkner finalist, Hugo Award, JANE HAMILTON—Orange and Pen/Hemingway, EDWARD HUMES—Pulitzer Prize, RUSSELL CYLN JONES—Award winning Novelist and Booker judge, YIYUM LI—Pen/Hemingway, PAUL MULDOON—Pulitzer Prize, RICHARD POWERS—National Book Award winner, NAHID RACHLIN—Pen Syndicated Fiction Project Award, MICHELE ROBERTS—Booker finalist, JOAN SILBER—Pen/Hemingway and NBA finalist, GAIL TSUKIYAMA--PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, LILY TUCK—National Book Award winner, REBECCA WALKER Workshops will be held in fiction, non-fiction, memoir, playwriting and poetry.