The following I had clipped from a Sister in Crime newletter.
Sorry for the
formatting, but in the free version of Eudora, don't know how
to simply
reformat this post. Looking at the OldNorton site, I would
have never
thought of some of the writers -- like Ishmael Reed -- as
being crime
writers. I like Ish's work, but thought of him as a
literary/mainstream
writer who used crime in his plots. May help if you get the
program, or
whatever the conference is giving out, and contact some of
the writers
directly.
It's time to mark your calendar for the
4th Annual Chester Himes Mystery Writers Conference and
Awards
Program.
The theme this year is
LAW AND ORDER MIRRORED IN THE BLACK MYSTERY
Featured Writers in Alphabetical order: Jacqueline Turner
Banks,
Evelyn Coleman,
Margaret Cuthbert, Nora DeLoach, Robert Greer, Terris
McMahan
Grimes, Penny
Mickelbury, Walter Mosley and Gary Phillips. There will
be
participants from the fields of
Law and Order too. This conference, the best kept secret in
mystery
writing, is Saturday
May 15, 1999 from 9-6:30 p.m. at the Oakland Museum
Admission is
$45 with box
lunches available for $10 each
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