LOOKING AHEAD

SCHEDULED EVENTS IN 2008

10.31.2008: Deadline for the 2009 Magic Carpet Ride mentorship application
This mentorship, an innovative one-on-one creative writing program, is the first of its kind to provide specialized instruction, direction, and motivation specifically for a writer of literary magical realism. The purpose of the Magic Carpet Ride mentorship is to assist a promising magical realist writer from anywhere in the world in the completion of a polished manuscript by the end of the session which may then be actively submitted to potential publishers. Application

Previous appearances and events:

AWP 2007 (New York, NY)
AWP 2005 (Vancouver, BC)
AWP 2004 (Chicago, IL)
Barnes & Noble (Libertyville, IL)
Barnes & Noble (Woodinville, WA)
Book Expo (Chicago, IL)
Bumbershoot (Seattle, WA)
Carnegie Hall (New York, NY)
Columbia College (Chicago, IL)
Eagle Harbor Book Company (Bainbridge Island, WA)
Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, WA)
Field's End Roundtable (Bainbridge Island, WA)
Field's End Writers Conference (Suquamish, WA)
Foolscap Conference (Belleveue, WA)
Highline Community College (SeaTac, WA)
In Other Words Women's Books and Resources (Portland, OR)
Jewel Box Theater (Poulsbo, WA)
KGB Bar (New York, NY)
Kitsap Community Arts Center (Suquamish, WA)
Lottie Mott's (Seattle, WA)
Mount Prospect Library (Mt. Prospect, IL)
Mundelein Park District (Mundelein, IL)
Northwest Bookfest (Seattle, WA)
Norwescon 2003, 2004, 2006 (SeaTac, WA)
The Otis Cafe (Seattle, WA)
Our Town Cafe (Vancouver, BC)
Ovation! Musical Theatre ~ A Wave of Caring: Tsunami
    Relief Benefit Bainbridge Island, WA)
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Convention (Bellevue, WA)
The Pacific Northwest Writers Association Conference (SeaTac, WA)
The Portland Zine Symposium (Portland, OR)
The Poulsbohemian Coffeehouse (Poulsbo, WA)
Prairie Moon Books (Arlington Heights, IL)
ProseWest reading series (Ballard, WA)
ProseWest reading series at Newberry Books (Seatle, WA)
Rainbow Bookfest (Seattle, WA)
The Richard Hugo House (Seattle, WA)
Roosevelt University (Schaumburg, IL)
Russian Tea Time poetry event (Chicago, IL)
Seattle Freelances (Seattle, WA)
Seattle Writers Association (Seattle, WA)
Tacoma Community College (Tacoma, WA)
Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)
University Bookstore (Seattle, WA)
Wild Dove Writers Studio (Arlington Heights, IL)
Write on the Sound Writer's Conference (Edmonds, WA)

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

E-mail

Tamara Kaye Sellman
321 High School Road NE
Ste D3, PMB #204
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
USA