Level: Intermediate and Advanced

Instructor: Lee and Bobby Byrd

Lee and Bobby Byrd are the founders of Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, TX. The husband and wife duo will be accepting 30 manuscripts (15 poetry and 15 fiction) for 20 minute, individual editorial consultations Each manuscript must consist of 10 to 15 pages of writing. Space is limited; call Gemini Ink to make an appointment.

Date: Saturday, Oct. 9 and Sunday, Oct. 10 by appointment

Limit: 30 Participants

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Oct. 6

Required Manuscript: Manuscripts must be mailed to 701 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX 79901 upon registration. If the pages are fiction, please mark the envelope ATTN: Lee Byrd / Gemini Ink Consultation; if they are poetry, then mark the envelope ATTN: Bobby Byrd / Gemini Ink Consultation

About the instructors:

Bobby Byrd – poet, essayist and independent publisher – is the author of numerous books of poetry. His latest volume, White Panties, Dead Friends and Other Bits and Pieces of Love (Cinco Puntos Press, 2006), received the 2008 Southwest Book Award. For his poetry Byrd is the recipient of a National Endowment of Arts Fellowship, the D.H. Lawrence Fellowship by the University of New Mexico and an International Residency Fellowship from the NEA and Instituto de Belles Artes de México. He recently co-edited and contributed to, Lone Star Noir (Akashic, 2010), an anthology of Texas noir short fiction. With his wife Lee, he is the co-publisher of Cinco Puntos Press.

Writer and publisher Lee Merrill Byrd lives in El Paso. In 1985, with her husband, poet Bobby Byrd, she founded Cinco Puntos Press, a publishing house recognized for bringing the multicultural literatures of the American Southwest and the U.S./Mexico border region to a national audience. Lee has published a collection of short stories, My Sister Disappears (SMU Press, 1993), two children’s books, The Treasure on Gold Street (Cinco Puntos, 2003) and Lover Boy (Cinco Puntos, 2005) and a novel, Riley’s Fire (Algonquin, 2006), named one of the Top Ten Best Books of 2006 by People magazine. In 1997, she was the recipient of the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship.

SAVE THE DATE: Bobby and Lee will also be participating  in a special Saturday Reading with Ámbar Past on Oct. 9 at 7pm at Gemini Ink, located at 513 S. Presa. The event is free and open to the public.