EVENTS

2025 EVENTS

Saturday, May 8. 2nd Saturday Poets, 5 PM – 7 PM. Featured Reader, Gallucio’s, 1709 Lovering Avenue, Wilmington, DE 19806, Open mic to follow.

June 17 – June 21. The 17th International Conference of the Short Story in English. Ireland National & Events Centre (CEC), Killarney, CO Kerry, Ireland. Featured writer (original reading); plenary panel (with Clark Blaise, Evelyn Conlon, Taylor Marie Graham, Maurice Lee, Darlene Madott, Michael Mirolla, and Tim Struthers), titled, Alice Munro: life, history, boundaries, and legacy; workshop leader, Reading like a Writer: giving your readers what they want.

International Women of Flash Prompt & Intrigue Consortium. After serving on a plenary session on Flash Fiction, at the 16th International Conference of the Short Story in English in Singapore, the panel members, Rebekah Clarke (Australia), Shady Cosgrove (Australia), Gay Lynch (Australia), Julia Prenderghast (Australia) and Billie Travalini (United States) realized the adventure must continue. And, so it did. With the use of shared prompts new pathways to being inspired were revealed, and new flash stories were written, or flash shrunk into micro flash, or expanded into longer-than-expected flash stories. Currently, the work is being gathered by Rebakah, our amazing leader. Publication? Perhaps, but what a great ride.

The 18th Lewes Creative Writers' Conference, Lewes Public Library, 111 Adams Avenue, Lewes, DE, Saturday, August 9, 8AM - 3:30PM. with An Evening of Readings by workshop leaders the Friday before. Billie Travalini, cofounder and conference organizer, Conference includes discussion/interview, open sessions, and small critique workshops in poetry, prose, craft, and more. Conference sponsored by Lewes Public Library, Delaware Division of Libraries, John and Sally Freeman Foundation, and The Parker Real Estate Group, LLC. NO COST. Donations are appreciated.

Keynote Speaker, Workshops and Panelist

The 16th International Conference on the Short Story in English, "Diversity of Voices: A Global Storytelling History."

Reading, workshop leader, and panelist, "The Importance of Flash Fiction, with Chair Dr Shady Cosgrove, Australia, and fellow panelists, Dr. Julia Prendergast, Australia, and Dr. Gay Lynch, Australia. The conference will focus on the craft of writing both short stories and creative non-fiction in its various forms and designs as well as its accompanying criticism and scholarship. Special panels include teaching creative writing in schools and tertiary institutions, children’s literature, young adult fiction, and translated works into English from Singapore’s other official languages of Tamil, Malay and Mandarin. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, June 20 to 24, 2023

Lewes Creative Writers Conference

August 18, 2023, 5:00 PM, Readings

Jamie Brunson, Anne Colwell, Caleb Curtiss, Maribeth Fischer,

Allyson Rice, and Billie Travalini

Lewes Public Library

111 Adams Avenue

Lewes DE 19958

Lewes Creative Writers Conference

August 19, 2023, 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM Lewes Public Library

111 Adams Avenue

Lewes DE 19958

Poetry. Prose. Playwriting. and, more.

Collaboration and Writing for the Long-Haul, Maribeth Fischer and Anne Colwell; Vampire Poems: Formal Experimentation and the Generative Process, Caleb Curtiss; Using Humor to Add Depth the Your Writing, Allyson Rice; Flash Fiction: Why it is Popular and Why you Should be Writing it, Billie Travalini; French Scene Outlining: the Key to Knowing Where You are Going and How to get There, Jamie Brunson; plus Grants & Opportunities for Artists, Roxanne Stanulis; critique roundtables, and readings by DDOA Fellows.

June 20 - 23, 2023 Panelist and Reading

The International Conference on the Short Story in English was launched in 1988 in Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, by the Society for the Study of the Short Story in English (SSSS). The 16th conference will take place at The National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with the theme, “Diversity of Voices: A Global Storytelling History.

The conference will focus on stories and creative non-fiction as well as accompanying criticism and scholarship. Panels include teaching creative writing in schools and tertiary institutions, children’s literature, young adult fiction, and translated works into English from Singapore’s other official languages of Tamil, Malay and Mandarin.

Plenary Session: The Importance of “flash fiction”

Dr Shady Cosgrove, chair, Australia

Dr. Julia Prendergast, Australia

Dr. Billie Travalini, United States

Dr. Gay Lynch, Australia

May 20, Noon, Guest Speaker and Workshop Leader

National Federation of Pen Women (NFPW), Diamond State Branch

Scholastic Writing Awards

Brandywine Clubhouse

Wilmington, DE 19810

This year 257 students from the Delaware Region submitted 370 works to the Scholastic Writing Competition. Claire Sanders, a twelfth grader from Tower Hill School, received a Gold Medal for her short story, Tyme and Time Again. and Caroline Shelman, a 9th grader from Saint Mark’s received a Gold Medal and American Voice Award for her personal memoir, Growing Pains.

Reading & Panel Discussion

Delaware Humanities Forum

ZOOM webinar.

Date Time: Mar 24, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

History’s Mysteries, a series of books for ages 7 through 12, proves that Delaware’s history can be interesting and fun. Chapter 6 "The Secret of the Helmet" by Billie Travalini, read by the author; also meet illustrator Sidney Rae Moore; "Conclusion" by David Teague, read by author.
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Keynote Speaker & Coordinator

14th Annual Lewes Creative Writers’ Conference

Saturday, August 14, 2021, with readings the evening before

Lewes Public Library. Lewes, Delaware

ZOOM Webinar

The schedule will be posted soon.

Workshop Leader

50th National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW)

April 28-- May 2, 2022

Biennial Convention

The Darcy, 1515 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.