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Coming in 2010
Featured Writers
 A native of Durham, Michael Malone was a noted scriptwriter for Another World and One Life to Live soap operas. He received four daytime Emmy nominations for best writing, winning the top prize in 1994 while head writer with One Life to Live.
Malone wrote his first novel, The Killing Club, as a subplot to One Life to Live and the novel was published in 2005, reaching No. 11 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardback fiction.
He is the author of nine novels, a collection of short stories and two non-fiction books. Among his book titles are Handling Sin (1983), Uncivil Seasons (1983), Time's Witness (1989), Foolscap or the Stages of Love (/1991), First Lady (2001), The Last Noel (2003) and his latest novel, The Four Corners of the Sky (2009).
His short story titles include Red Clay, Blue Cadillac, Murdered for Love and Delacorte.
A resident of Hillsborough, where he resides with his wife, Maureen Quilligan, a professor of English at Duke University, Malone was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard. He has taught at Yale, Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to his Emmy, Malone has been awarded the Edgar and the O'Henry awards, and has been honored with a Writers Guild award.
Several of his works have been set in North Carolina, especially in the Piedmont where homicide detective Justin Saville and police chief Cuddy Mangum battle crime in the fictional town of Hillston.
Read more about the author by clicking HERE.
 A native of Washington, D.C., Ellyn Bache studied English at the University of Maryland and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has resided in Wilmington for over 20 years, but now divides her time between the Tar Heel State and Pennsylvania.
Ellyn Bache's newest book, Daughters of the Sea, is a Reviewers Choice Book of the Year nominee and a Top Pick from RT Book Reviews. Another book, Safe Passage, starred Susan Sarandon Sam Sheppard in the film version.
Bache has written eight novels as well as a short story collection, books for young people and a nonfiction journal.
Among her other titles are: Holiday Miracles: A Christmas/Hanukkah Story, Festival in Fire Season, The Activist's Daughter and Riggs Park. Visit her Web site at www.ellynbache.com.
 Chris Roerden is best known for her award-winning books for writers: Don't Sabotage Your submission-Insider Information from a Career Editor to Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D.O.A., and its earlier version Don't Murder Your Mystery-24 Fiction Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript.
In her 44 years in publishing, Chris has edited thousands of fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, including those of authors published by St. Martin’s Press, Berkley Prime Crime, Walker & Co., Midnight Ink, Intrigue, Oceanview, Rodale, and Viking. Of the 11 books and a game she’s written, she ghosted all but four. Her books on writing have won four awards, two of them national: the prestigious Agatha for Best Nonfiction and the 2009 Benjamin Franklin for Literary Criticism; and were shortlisted for five additional national awards, including the Anthony, the Macavity, USA Best Books, and ForeWord Magazine’s Writing Book of the Year.
Chris is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Maine and a former university instructor of writing. She is past president of a regional trade association of 250 commercial and university presses, and she chairs the Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy 2010 Scholarship Program. Most of all she enjoys filling invitations from across the US and Canada to present her popular workshops, in which she shares insider information about how publishing decisions are made, and steps writers through exercises to expand their use of techniques that help develop each writer’s unique voice. Her website is www.writersinfo.info.
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Click HERE to see bios of the 2010 session leaders.
Click HERE to see a complete schedule of presentations and workshops.
Printable 2010 application in PDF or Word 97-2003
Apply on line at CWC Application Form.
Click HERE for slide show and articles about 2009 Conference.
Lockhart-Taylor Center in Wadesboro
Lodging and Dining
Click HERE for information on motels and restaurants.
For moreinformation, contact:
info@ansoncountywritersclub.org
Other Links
www.carolinaromancewriters.com
www.spcc.edu
South Piedmont Community College
www.discoveranson.com
www.ansoncounty.org
Chamber of Commerce
www.cityofwadesboro.org
Directions
514 North Washington Street, Wadesboro
704-272-5300
From the east (Rockingham): Travel west on U.S. 74 to Wadesboro. Turn right at the fourth stoplight in Wadesboro onto North Washington Street. The Lockhart-Taylor Center is the first building on the right. Parking is available at the far end of the building.
From the west (Monroe): Travel east on U.S. 74 to Wadesboro. Turn left at the fourth stoplight onto North Washington Street. The Lockhart-Taylor Center is the first building on the right. Parking is available at the far end of the building.
From the north (Albemarle): Travel south on U.S. 52 to Wadesboro. At the intersection of U.S. 74, turn left. Go to the second stoplight and turn left onto North Washington Street. The Lockhart-Taylor Center is the first building on the right. Parking is available at the far end of the building.
From the south (Cheraw, SC): Travel north on U.S. 52 to Wadesboro. At the intersection of U.S. 74 turn left. Go to the third stoplight and turn right onto North Washington Street. The Lockhart-Taylor Center is the first building on the right. Parking is available at the far end of the building.
 Fee includes admission to Authors Reception Friday evening in the Olde Mill Gallery at SPCC's Lockhart-Taylor Center in Wadesboro.
You may choose to purchase a box lunch for Saturday with your application. The lunch consists of chicken salad sandwich with sides. Lunch orders cannot be taken 48 hours prior to the conference.
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