Lit Beat

Advertiser Staff

SPECIAL EVENTS

• TALK STORY FESTIVAL, featuring spellbinding story tellers: Spooky tales Friday, Kid Kind Tales Saturday, Adventure stories next Sunday, 7-9:30 p.m. McCoy Pavilion, Ala Moana Park; free; live webcast all three nights (www.lava.net/talkstory2001).

• "THE CARE OF PRECIOUS AND RARE BOOKS," by Rob Lucas, former teacher of bookbinding and book conservation at Mills College, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Mission Houses Museum, downtown; free. 531-0481.

FOR WRITERS

• WORLD'S LARGEST WRITING WORKSHOP with well known writer's sharing ideas on all aspects of writing, 7 p.m. Thursday, Barnes & Noble, Kahala Mall; co-sponsored by "Writer's Digest"; free. 737-3323.

• ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA features "The Artist's Way," by Cathi Bruhn, 10 a.m. Saturday, 'Aina Haina Library. 5246 Kalaniana'ole Highway 735-9610

• FIRST ANNUAL BAMBOO RIDGE WRITERS INSTITUTE, featuring Hawai'i authors, poets, playwrights and film makers, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Oct. 20, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Campus Center; $50 registration, $40 additional for Master Workshops; early registration recommended, forms at www.bambooridge.com. 988-2500.

• WRITING RETREATS, for people interested in writing fiction, poetry, memoir, creative nonfiction and business correspondence in a creative setting, Windward Community College, 45-720 Kea'ahala Road, Kane'ohe, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Oct. 27, Hale Alaka'i, Nov. 17, Hale Kuhina; $5 per session. 235-7433, 235-7400.

• 11TH HONOLULU WRITERS CONFERENCE, with best selling author of "legal thrillers", Perry O'Shaughnessy, A Warner Books editor and three literary agents, plus information about children's books and self publishing, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Nov. 3, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, East-West Center, Jefferson Hall; $89 registration, students $60. 395-1161.

• HAWAI'I PACIFIC UNIVERSITY POETRY CONTEST: send three poems of fewer than 100 lines containing your name, address, phone number and/or e-mail and a five-line biography to The James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry, 1060 Bishop St., Suite 402, Honolulu, HI 96813; open only to Hawai'i residents; deadline Dec. 1; $500 prize, poem publication. 544-1107.

SIGNINGS/READINGS

• WALLY AMOS, author of "The Cookie Never Crumbles: Inspirational Recipes for Everyday Living," 12:30-1:30 p.m., Oct. 12, Bestsellers Bishop Square, 1001 Bishop St., Pauahi Tower, downtown. 528-2378.