Join your favorite mystery writers, aspiring writers, and mystery fans in America’s southernmost city! From South Florida's favorite storytellers to writers of international renown, this is a meet-and-greet where authors can catch up with old friends and readers can chat with their favorite mystery writers, collect signed books -- and participate in workshops, panels, and presentations where bestselling authors explain how and why they do it.
The 2017 “Murder & Mayhem in Paradise” themed Mystery Fest Key West is to include multiple writers workshops, presentations, panel discussions and social events where attendees mingle with acclaimed mystery, suspense, crime fiction and true crime writers, including headliners John Hemingway, grandson of Ernest and author of “Strange Tribe,” Keynote Speaker Clifford Irving, and Mystery Writers of America Florida Chapter past-President Randy Rawls; New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Heather Graham; bestselling and award-winning author Nancy J. Cohen; award-winning crime and science fiction writer James O. Born; bestselling Buck Reilly adventure series author John H. Cunningham and many others.
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Mystery Fest Key West
has announced a call for entries for this year’s Whodunit Mystery
Writing Competition. The winner will claim a book-publishing contract
with Absolutely Amazing eBooks, free Mystery Fest Key West 2017
registration, airfare, hotel accommodations for two nights, meals and a
Whodunit Award trophy to be presented at the 4th Annual Mystery Fest Key
West, set for June 16-18 in Key West, Florida.
Sponsored by Absolutely Amazing eBooks and
supported by the Marion Stevens Fund at the Community Foundation of the
Florida Keys, candidates wishing to compete for the 2017 Whodunit
Writing Competition are invited to submit the first three pages (maximum
750 words) of a finished, but unpublished manuscript to
whodunitaward@mysteryfestkeywest.com no later than April 15, 2017. There
is no fee to enter, finalists will be notified by May 1, and will have
until May 10 to submit full manuscripts.
“Why just the first three pages? That
criterion is a nod to late author Jeremiah Healy, a world-class mystery
writer and a great judge of mystery writing,” says Shirrel Rhoades,
co-founder of Mystery Fest Key West. “Jerry's opinion was that a book
either captures a reader in the first three pages…or it doesn’t. The
competition judges all agreed with that assessment, and decided to use
it as a yardstick for the competition.”
Complete Whodunit Writing Competition guidelines and submission details are available at mysteryfestkeywest.com.
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