|
Scroll to see the
amazing speakers we have this year. Editors, Wrting Teachers, Freelance Writers, Song Writers and more .
Christine Kohler is presently an instructor for the Institute of Children’s
Literature, a college-accredited long-distance learning program that teaches adults how to write for children. She has
studied at six universities and has
degrees in journalism, education, and English. She worked at daily newspapers as a reporter, photojournalist, and
foreign correspondent, covering politics for Gannett, and an editor and copy
editor for the San Antonio Express-News. Her first four children’s books were published in 1985. She is published in
fiction and nonfiction children’s books, adult magazine and newspaper articles,
photography, and poetry.
Karla K. Morton, the 2010 Texas Poet Laureate, has been
described as "one of the more adventurous voices in American poetry"
and has been featured on Good Morning Texas, NPR, ABC News, CBS News and in countless newspapers, blogs and
magazines.
As the first female Texas Poet Laureate in nearly 20 years, Morton created the Little Town, Texas Tour.
As part of the tour, she has traveled across the state, sharing her
poetry and love for the arts with high schools, universities, arts
organizations, bookstores, conference attendees and more.
Initially taking the arts world by storm with her book/CD Wee Cowrin' Timorous Beastie (a North Texas Book Festival Awards finalist created in collaboration with award-winning composer Howard Baer), Morton's critically-acclaimed poetry collections now include:
Gail Bennison is a self-taught writer with an affinity for people
profiles. She began writing professionally at age 50, and over the last
10 years has written more than 500 comprehensive people profiles and
collections, as well as a weekly technology column and automotive
column.
She has been published in several newspapers and
magazines, including: Fort Worth Business Press, Millionaire Blueprints
magazine, Pilot Point Post Signal, Little Elm Journal, Frisco
Enterprise, and Parker County Today magazine.
Gail currently
works as a staff writer for Fort Worth, Texas magazine and as a
correspondent for the Collin County Business Press.
She recently
wrote a collection of Super Bowl XLV cover stories for Fort Worth, Texas
magazine and contributed several articles for the magazine’s Super Bowl
XLV Commemorative Issue.
Charles
Lohrmann currently
serves as the Editor of Texas
Highways magazine, having previously worked as Managing Editor and Associate
Publisher of Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine. Lohrmann was Editor of
Continental, the Continental Airlines inflight magazine, Vice-President and
Editor-in-Chief of Austin Homes & Gardens and San Antonio Homes &
Gardens magazines, and Editor of Four Winds magazine, a Native American art
journal. His work appeared in Native Peoples, Southwest Art, and American
Way. Lohrmann wrote The
Language of the Robe: The American Indian Trade Blanket, and contributed a
major essay for Chihuly’s Pendletons. As a creative director and communications
strategist, Lohrmann has worked with a range of corporate and agency clients as
a communications strategist and creative director.
Michael H. Price is a
first generation Texan by way of West
Virginia & Oklahoma. A working journalist, musician
and cartoonist-illustrator since his school days, Price has devoted much of his career to the preservation & interpretation
of Texas music. In this area, his books include Daynce of the Peckerwoods: The
Badlands of Texas Music and Mortal Coils. As a film critic he has published the on-going series entitled Forgotten Horrors
and the show-business biography Mantan the Funnyman: The Life & Times of Mantan Moreland. He has served as an editor and
writer for numerous publications including the Fort Worth Business Press.
|
