Hope Clark

C. Hope Clark is founder/editor of FundsforWriters.com , a Web site selected for eight years running by Writer's Digest for 101 Best Web Sites for Writers. Her motivational newsletters reach 15,000 readers, providing grants, competitions and publishing opportunities on a weekly basis. Her publishing credits include Writer's Digest, The Writer Magazine, Byline Magazine, several Chicken Soup volumes, TURF Magazine, Voices of Youth Advocates (VOYA), Next Step Teen and many more. She just completed her second agricultural mystery novel.  www.fundsforwriters.com

Eric has been working with creative and performing artists for more than twenty-five years, first as a therapist and now as a creativity coach. He has been writing for thirty-five years. His more than thirty books include Coaching the Artist Within, Fearless Creating, A Writer's Paris, The Van Gogh Blues, The Creativity Book, Performance Anxiety, and Ten Zen Seconds. Eric holds undergraduate degrees in philosophy and psychology, master's degrees in counseling and creative writing, and a doctorate in counseling psychology. For a decade he taught personal and professional development classes at St. Mary's College, Moraga, California. He founded and wrote Callboard Magazine's Staying Sane in the Theater column and currently writes for Art Calendar Magazine. He also writes periodically for Writer's Digest Magazine, The Writer, and other publications including Dramatics Magazine, Intuition Magazine, and The California Therapist. Eric has been a presenter about creativity issues at the American Psychological Association annual conference, the Romance Writers of America annual conference, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Conservatory Theater, the Writer's Digest Writers Conference and other organizations. www.ericmaisel.com