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After the lantern festival, there is the one-day festival, which began in 1982 with a small group of women writers to promote women's literary career, has increased dramatically, so popular with Long Beach and residents of surrounding communities, if they sold each year in the first rule day traffic.
 
To see these authors, Stuhlbarg anxiety seemed ready to mailbox for registration forms, a pen and shipping.

We must go to the mailbox, the letter the same day or you can not enter,  he said, adding that the mail is 2 clock every day and had the forms in the mail 3 pm

Those unable to attend Saturday to wait until March 2011.

When the doors of women, the annual Literary Festival authors opened Saturday morning, 67-year-old run Susan Stuhlbarg.

The elegant blue leather jacket, gave him an aerodynamic edge bands such as flocked in front of a pack of 700 women in the second floor of the Long Beach Convention Center Hall.

With all the intensity of general research, Stuhlbarg rushed between tables for a better view on the two platforms for which estimates of the authors seem to speak within minutes.

I have a small wound,  a resident of Long Beach said, apologized for obvious discomfort was arrested as he ran to the selected position.

Stuhlbarg and his friends are veterans of the festival of the author,  he said. It is at least 20 of total 29 events per year.

The same like Lantern Festival facts Women began to tail the convention center hall on Saturdays from 7 clock Council member and spokesman of the event, said Judy Ross.

Despite the huge increase from the first year and tripled in time was the Women's Literary Organization resisted Lift the lid last 700 calls.


While the 700 is not small numbers - to provide combined voice delighted the audience heard a noise outside the convention gates - an easy familiarity, was among the many round tables in which the authors could be found mixed in the mass found .

It was the first meeting (the authors have decided to Literary Festival for women), which is how it was,  said Eileen McCafferty, long-term supporters of the organization and retired nurse, Long Beach.

Each year the organizing committee selects writers who can offer a variety of experiences and projects so that everyone at any level is something interesting for them,  said Ross.

Many writers have shared personal stories or read from their work. All degrees offered advice to hundreds of readers and writers.

Some writers write best when the characters are close, and some writers write best when they have their own skin.
It is something that should really just try to understand for themselves,  Author and Sarah Lawrence College Professor Silver told the crowd.

For me, I began to improve when they started taking things,  she said with humor.

Silver first came from the writings narcissism of youth that goes beyond their days, like a book already written on the experience of life,  he said.

The life of the author is very unexpected, there is no standard to follow, and not his own life, like you,  he says.

The advice of the author Willett, however, was much more precise and unexpectedly at a literary event.


It was the room full of  Lantern Display  as described in literature Women President Valerie Morgan missed: the gathering, even champion of books and the printed page more and more obsolete.

The Kindle (e-reader) has read some of their own culture, I could not imagine my life does not now,  said Morgan.

Recently described an owner of a share Kindle Morgan, their experiences abroad, laughter, and especially the friendly crowd.

E-Reader, it is difficult to give a book to a friend or a loan book as a gift, but the important thing is that the books will not disappear. I keep my Kindle, but never cease d 'love and the purchase of books.

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