2012 Florida Tech Creative Writing Institute Keynote Speaker Takes Gold in 2011 Florida Book Award Contest

MELBOURNE, FLA.—The keynote speaker for the Florida Institute of Technology Fourth Annual Creative Writing Institute, fiction writer Lynne Barrett, recently took the Gold Prize in the 2011 Florida Book Awards. She won first place in the General Fiction category for her book, Magpies.

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