Best-selling authors and award-winning writers will present guest readings and craft talks during a week-long winter workshop being hosted by Newport MFA, Salve's master of fine arts in creative writing program. All events are free and open to the Salve Regina community as well as the general public, and anyone interested is encouraged to attend.

Tim Weed is the author of a short fiction collection, "A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing," and a novel, "Will Poole's Island." He is the winner of a Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Award and a Solas Best Travel Writing Award, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Literary Hub, The Millions, Writer’s Chronicle, The Daily News, Talking Points Memo, Backcountry and many others. A member of the Vermont Humanities Council Speakers' Bureau and a co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program, Weed has had a parallel career as an international guide and featured lecturer in locations around the globe for National Geographic, the School for International Training, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center and many other organizations.