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The deadline for sending in your previously unpublished short story to our Ninth Annual Short Story Contest is Monday, June 12. Don’t send in more than 2,500 words; make sure it’s typewritten. On a separate cover letter, give us your name, address, phone number, and the title of the story. Submit the story to: Short Story Contest, PO Box 49066, Austin, TX 78765 or via e-mail at marketing@auschron.com. Go to auschron.com/shortstory/ for previous winners… You can find 80,000-100,000 cheap, good books and support Literacy Austin by buying some of them at BookFest ’00, held in Northcross Mall this weekend, June 10-11, from 9am-9pm on Saturday and from noon-6pm on Sunday. Call 478-READ for more information or for details about volunteering at Literacy Austin… The Western Writers of America holds its 46th annual national convention in Kerrville this year from June 13-17 at the YO Ranch. Pitch ideas to editors and agents, meet lots of Western writers, and find out the winners of the annual Spur Awards, which honor the best Western writing of the year. Access www.westernwriters.org for more information or call 615/791-1444… There’s another chance to meet with editors and agents at the Austin Writers’ League’s annual Agents! Agents! Agents! & Editors Too! conference July 21-23. Ten agents and three editors will be in attendance and will speak about such matters as how to find an agent, the terms of a fair contract, and what kinds of books and scripts are selling. Cost is $185 for AWL members, $220 for nonmembers. Register by July 6 in order to schedule a private consult with an editor or agent. Call 499-8914 for more information… Barry Scheck, who you probably remember as the O.J. Simpson lawyer who cross-examined DNA expert Dennis Fong, has actually been quite busy the past 10 years trying to use DNA evidence to determine which of our nation’s prisoners have been wrongfully convicted. He’ll be at BookPeople tonight, June 8, at 7pm, to discuss the formation of the Texas Innocence Network and to present his book Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted, co-written with Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer… Resistencia Bookstore (1801-A S. First) hosts the Austin Hispanic Writers on June 8 at 7:30pm… Children’s author and illustrator Patricia Polacco will be at Toad Hall Children’s Bookstore (4520 Burnet) on Saturday, June 10, from 11am-1pm with her newest book, The Butterfly… Austin author Karen Stolz will read from and sign World of Pies, her new novel set in fictional Annette, Texas, at BookPeople on Tuesday, June 13, at 7pm… Michener Center graduate and first-time novelist Lori Aurelia Williams will read from and sign her new novel for young adults, When Kambia Elaine Flew in From Neptune, at Barnes & Noble Arboretum on Wednesday, June 14, at 7:30pm… Chandra Moira Beal, author of Splash Across Texas!: The Definitive Guide to Swimming in Central Texas, will be at Barnes & Noble Guadalupe on Wednesday, June 14, at 7pm… Janet Fitch, bestselling author of White Oleander, will be at BookPeople on Friday, June 16, at 7pm.
This article appears in June 9 • 2000.