{"id":22782,"date":"2025-10-27T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:38:08","slug":"writers-conference-at-fgcu-is-free-and-open-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22782\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Conference at FGCU is free and open to all"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sanibel Island Writers Conference<\/a> has not been held on Sanibel Island for a few years, thanks to damage from Hurricane Ian and the Covid-19 pandemic. But this year it will be held nearby, at Florida Gulf Coast University, and is open to everyone, for free. Co-director of the festival Tom DeMarchi is issuing a wide invitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping anybody who\u2019s interested in writing will attend, who\u2019s in the area. And that includes anybody from campus, anybody from the community, certainly anybody even visiting the area for the weekend,\u201d DeMarchi said.<\/p>\n

The conference begins Friday November 7 at 6 PM with a keynote address. Courses runall day Saturday and topics include poetry, essays, flash fiction, and TV writing.<\/p>\n

DeMarchi hopes that the workshops will help demystify the writing process.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve done a really good job of continuing to create a writing community where everyone feels welcome, and where everyone seems to walk away with a sense of satisfaction that they\u2019ve actually learned something and they feel newly invigorated about their writing projects, and their capacity for doing it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Register here<\/a>. The web site also describes the courses and the teachers\u2019 backgrounds. You\u2019ll get a parking pass here, and you\u2019ll need one for each day.<\/p>\n

WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0donate now<\/a>. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sanibel Island Writers Conference has not been held on Sanibel Island for a few years, thanks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-22782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}