New Faces

In previous years' Seminars, attendees tended to skew older, with a pretty meager smattering of under-30s. With New Voices as a theme this year and a healthy scholarship program there's a big influx of younger attendees and tons of fresh energy, both onstage and in the audience. 26 year old Mike Cook here is a writer and blogger from Baltimore. Mike heard about the Seminar from a couple who are regulars at the bar where he works. When he told them he was a writer they said they'd just come back from last year's Seminar, that this year's theme was New Voices and that he should definitely come. A year later here he is. Check out his blog at literatureisnotdead.com.