All-day conference with three keynote speakers and twelve breakout sessions taught by professional experts on investing, retirement, debt reduction, estate planning, goal setting, and financial planning for the self-employed. $39 registration fee includes lunch and a copy of The Money Therapist: A Woman's Guide to Creating a Healthy Financial Life. Scholarships available.

Money Wise Women Educational Services
PO Box 2508
Silverdale, WA 98383
Phone: 360/204-0982
Email: info@moneywisewomen.net

Register at: www.moneywisewomen.net

North Seattle Community College
9600 College Way North
Seattle, WA

"Re-Imagining the Wild" is title of this year's Winter Fishtrap writers' conference, held at the Wallowa Lake Lodge near Enterprise Oregon. This year's presenters are Kathleen Dean Moore, Roderick Nash, and Jack Turner. Registration opens Tuesday, Dec. 2 and enrollment is limited to 55.

Winter Fishtrap at Wallowa Lake Lodge
POB 38
Enterprise, OR 97828

Website: www.fishtrap.org

Seventh Annual Seattle Rainbow Bookfest will feature a writer's breakfast and dialogue, book tables, author readings, panel discussions, workshops and more. The goals of this conference are to stimulate dialogue between writers, readers, and publishers; recognize writers of color; showcase and support works by writers of color; nuture a love for literature in children of color; and introduce the diverse perspectives and rich cultural experiences that writers of color embody to a broad reading public.

Langston Hughes Center
104 17th Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98144