Writing Conference Scheduled for ASU

Three Georgian writers will be featured in the 12th annual Winter Gathering of Writers Jan. 23 at Augusta State. The three present a free public program A Celebration of New Georgia Women Novelists. The conference is at 7:30 p.m. in Room W1002, Science Building.

The presenters include Julie Cannon of Watkins, Ga., whose first novel Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes, was published in 2001. Faye McDonald Smith, an Atlanta-based editor and communications consultant, is author of Flight of the Blackbird, which won the 1997 American Library Association’s honor award in fiction. Estelle Ford-Williamson, from North Georgia, is author of the novel Abbeville Farewell, also published in 2001. Cannon and Ford-Williamson are both Sandhills Writers Conference graduates, the Southeast's most prestigious conference for writers of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, plays, children's literature, and song lyrics, held annually at ASU.

The free program is sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communications with support from the ASU Foundation. For information, call Tony Kellman at 737-1500.