HEIDI RUBY MILLER

Sign Up for Workshops Today Only 22 FREE seats in each session...  “If I rest, I rust.” This maxim is true for all of us, writers included! Key to the Pennsylvania Literary Festival...

Children's Activities Announced!!! May 30 , 31 & June 1 , Uniontown Mall We want to invite your entire family to become part of the #PAlitFest. With the help and support of local service organizations like the Rotary, PNC’s Grow Up Great program, Albert Gallatin Amedisys Home Care and Hospice, and Waddell and Reed there will be constant activities for the entire family including: art projects, readings, face-painting, give-a-way items, and even a 20 x 30 map of the Commonwealth. A full schedule of events can be found at:  http://palitfest.com/ schedule/ . Descriptions of select Children's Activities can be found below:  DINO DETECTIVES ( Saturday, May 31 – 10:30 AM ) Travel back in time to a world ruled by massive plant-eaters and vicious carnivores! Dino Detectives, a hands-on learning program presented by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, allows children to investigate prehistoric times through a series of “Science Stations”: activity sta...

Donate or Exchange Your Books! Hello Friends, By now, you've heard about the Pennsylvania Literary Festival, a three-day, statewide celebration of reading and writing coming to the Uniontown Mall from May 30 through June 1 . As part of the festival'...

Essay Contest Information Sponsored by the Fayette Chamber of Commerce The 2014 Fayette Chamber of Commerce Essay Contest is open to All K-12 students residing in Pennsylvania. Essays (fictional or non-fictional) are to be based on a photograph taken ...

Sponsorship Packages for the Pennsylvania Literary Festival When you support #PAlitFest, you are helping to bring visitors from across the region, state, and country to Fayette County. Your...

The idea arose during a casual conversation between four Fayette County locals – two published authors and two television producers: Why not gather people and resources from across the state and country for a televised celebration of everything related to reading and writing?  From that chat, the Pennsylvania Literary Festival was born, and now, the building blocks are in place for a weekend-long festival, to be held at the Uniontown Mall May 30 through June 1. The Pennsylvania Literary Festival , or #PAlitFest, as it is abbreviated by its growing group of followers on the social media Website, Twitter, will be coordinated by a team that is led by Fayette Community Television representatives Matthew Dowling and Dave Slusarick and husband-and-wife authors Jason Jack and Heidi Ruby Miller, who had the initial burst of inspiration for the event. According to the Pennsylvania Literary Festival’s website, the gathering will ...

EVENTS The June 2013 Residency at Seton Hill University for their Writing Popular Fiction MFA Program always coincides with the WPF Alum-sponsored In Your Write Mind Conference . That means hundreds of writers on campus for an incredible summer event. This year was even more celebratory as we had two film crews on property. The Popular Romance Project was filming students, faculty, and alum for the documentary Love Between the Covers , and I was there with Matthew D. Dowling and the GoingLIVE TV show to do interviews. Here are a few photo memories. Chocolate Lovers' Booksigning      GoingLIVE Mobile Set The Annual WPF Ball - This year it was themed The Princess Bride Graduation Day