Category: Writers Forum

Producer/host: Joan Clemons

Maine poets Mary Jane Martin, Selkie O’Mira, Janet L.G. Smith and Debbie Mitchell read from their work

Producers/hosts: Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons

Guests: Brewster Milton Robertson and Charlotte Jones Cabaniss Robertson, authors and co-directors of the Downeast Writers Conference (www.downeastwriters.com) which will take place June 14th-16th on Deer Isle, Maine

Brewster Milton Robertson, novelist and critic, is a Pushcart-nominated essayist, longtime member of the Southern Book Critic’s Circle and a mainstay contributor to Publisher’s Weekly. Well-known for his view that the fiction process is a seduction, his current novel A Posturing of Fools is described as “Sloan Wilson’s Man in the Grey Flannel Suit meets Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby”. Robertson’s debut novel Rainy Days and Sundays was optioned for film by Alan Brown, Executive Producer of the film, Year of the Comet Today on “Writer’s Forum” he reads from, and discusses, his work, as well as the upcoming conference.

Charlotte Jones Cabaniss Robertson is a Columnist, Critic, Librarian, Publicist, and Literary Advocate. A graduate cum laude at Auburn University and mainstay board member of the Alabama Center for the Book, and former Director of Library Services at the Bay Minette Public Library, Robertson is well-known throughout the literary south as founder of the celebrated Alabama Athenaeum, a forum from which distinguished authors could read from their works to the people of the greater Mobile, Alabama area. The founding Director of the Annual Downeast Writer’s Conference on Deer Isle, Maine, Robertson continues to serve on the advisory board of the Alabama Center for the Book and as Author Liaison Director for the famous Page & Palette Book Store in Fairhope, Alabama

Downeast Writers’ Conference, June 14-16, Deer Isle, Maine, www.downeastwriters.com or call Mr. York’s Book Shoppe, 207-669-4431, or the Robertson’s at 207-367-2773

Producers/hosts: Betty Duff and Joan Clemons

Producers/hosts:  Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons

Guests: Zachery Cole, Sandy Cohen, Maureen Farr

Producers/hosts:  Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons

Guests:  Jennifer Armstrong, Deborah Joy Corey and Les Simon read from, and discuss their work

Producers/hosts: Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons

Topic: Maine writers

Guests: Brenda Gilchrist, Gayle Hadley and Nancy Hodermarsky

Producers/hosts: Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons

Topic: Writers and Writing: Writing Memoirs, new ERR, information about the Downeast Writer’s Conference on Deer Isle

Guests: Diane Berlew, Anne Burton, Stephen York

Producers/hosts: Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons

Topic: Poetry; How the Salt Coast sages got started; Teaching English in the public schools; The rhythm of language

Guests: Sharon Bray, freelance writer for the Penobscot Bay Press, primarily the Castine Patriot, former publisher of the Bucksport Enterprise and the Narramissic Notebook; Donald Crane, since retirement has been pursuing a life-long interest in poetry and has had a number of poems published in mostly Maine based magazines;
Phil Rose, taught English for nearly 30 years and has had short stories, articles and poems, mostly with his favorite nautical theme, published in several New England magazines and newspapers. All are members of Kelly Lombardi’s Salt Coast Sages at the University of Maine in Machias.