Sixth Annual Western Maryland
Independent Lit Festival

Downtown Frostburg, MD
October 13, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

The Frostburg State University Center for Creative Writing, in partnership with the Allegany County Library System, is excited to announce that the fifth annual Western Maryland Small and Regional Press Festival is scheduled for Oct. 13, from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., at Main Street, Frostburg. The event brings together editors and publishers with writers and educators of the local community. Panel discussions and roundtable sessions include topics on various creative genres, DIY publishing, self-publishing, promotion and marketing, writing local, and reading and writing online.

We have also expanded the festival to a weekend-long event with a poetry slam on Thursday, a reading featuring several authors from participating presses on Friday at Main Street Books, a reception for press and journal attendees at the Center for Creative Writing, and a panel discussion on the author/editor relationship at the Frostburg library.

Leading up to the Small Press Festival, we will feature interviews and information about participating presses and journalists at the Center’s blog.

Says Gerry LaFemina about the event: "This is a literary arts festival. We're celebrating the writers, the teachers, the libraries, the readers and the publishers, but most of all we're celebrating that fire inside of us that wants to make up stories, that wants to be heard."

The event is free and open to the public. www.frostburg.edu/cwcenter For more information, contact the Washington Street Library at 301.777.1200 or the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing at 301.687.4340.

If you're an editor or a publisher and would like to attend, click here for a registration form.

Saturday's panel topics and events schedule.

Book Fair in Lyric Theater.

Panel discussion in the conference room of the Lyric Building.