There are only twenty-four days to go until to the thirty-sixth annual (and largest ever) Port Townsend Writers' Conference! To celebrate, Conference alum and 2009 resident Elizabeth Thorpe sent us this beautiful picture of the sunrise breaking open above Whidbey Island; or to bring in Homer: dawn showing again, with rosy fingers.

Check-in starts Sunday, July 12 at 3:30 pm for the thirty-sixth consecutive Conference. Everything is completely sold out, except for the afternoon workshops, but the readings and lectures (see link to the right) are free to the public and should be amazing this year.