VS Grenier ~ Award-Winning Author, Speaker & Podcaster

Speakers & Events 2013 St. George Area Book Festival October 14th—19th, 2013 Jon Sebba, 2013 Utah Poet of the Year Recipient, was born in South Africa. As a student in Jerusalem, he worked cataloging 19th Century medical journals, as well as at the Hydrology Institute. He also worked as a laborer in the construction of Jerusalem apartment buildings and of evaporation lagoons at the Dead Sea (1400 feet below sea level) with summer temperatures topping 115°F. When the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six Day War began, he was married with one child. As a reservist, he was mobilized to fight in Jerusalem. Among the things he learned from that experience are: death in war is random; wars should definitely be avoided; and given the choice, few soldiers would ever start one. In 1968, Jon immigrated to the US to study civil engineering, arriving the day before Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated. En route, he worked as a lorry driver in London for four months. He has

Do You Want to be an Author or a Writer May 18, 2013 Writing Boot Camp Location: Vista Ridge Estates Community Building 1331 N Dixie Downs Rd. St George, UT 84770 ~Keynote Speaker~ Jack Remick is a poet, short story writer and  novelist. In 2012, Coffeetown Press published the first two volumes of Jack’s California Quartet series , The Deification and Valley Boy . The final two volumes will be released in 2013: The Book of Changes and Trio of Lost Souls . Blood, A Novel was published by Camel Press, an imprint of Coffeetown Press, in 2011. You can find Jack Remick online at http://bobandjackswritingblog.com/  or http://jackremick.com ~SCHEDULE~   8-8:30am           Registration 8:30-8:45am       Welcome/Opening 8:45-10:45am     Jack Remick: The Three S’s—Story, Structure, Style      This is a hands on workshop  using timed writing. Prefer longhand with pen and paper. Bring a one page passage from Work in Progress. Suggested read