The 13rh Annual Bay to Ocean Writers Conference, to be held February 20, 2010 at ChesapeakeCollege, Todd Performing Arts Center, in Wye Mills, Maryland, will feature 20 speakers on topics ranging from writing craft to publishing. The writers conference is sponsored by the Eastern Shore Writers’ Association (www.easternshorewriters.org), a nonprofit organization supporting writers and the literary arts on the Delmarva Peninsula. Over 1,000 aspiring and established writers have attended the conference over its history. This year’s conference will feature the second Bay to Ocean Writing Contest. The contest, sponsored by ESWA and Delmarva Quarterly, will honor first-rate writing in short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, with submissions due December 1, 2009. For further information on the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference or the Bay to Ocean Writing Contest, visit www.baytoocean.com.