WRITING: 2007 Tunxis Writers Festival

This year’s speakers included quite a number of interesting and diverse writers, along with a lot of poets and music and food.

A good presentation by Abby Denson and Tim Fish on cartooning and the graphic novel.  otto has reincarnated as an annual art lit journal (nice job, George).  I found Christopher Whitcomb’s talk tremendously interesting both as a writer and interested citizen; Mr. Whitcomb is a former FBI Agent and has written both non-fiction and two novels–another in the works–based upon his experiences.  What was inspiring was the fact that from childhood he wanted to be a writer.  With his amazing history and experiences in his careers, he finally found his dream based upon those experiences.  I wanted to buy his books right then and there but unfortunately they had already sold out, so Amazon will be visited very soon.

Continuing on throughout the day, authors Hollis Gillespie, Mike Reiss, poet Tryfon Tolides and a view of film editing by Tunxis’ own Professor John Timmons will round out the event with more poetry readings and some live Jazz to make this a great day at Tunxis.