By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 4-23-07
GREENSBORO, NC – UNCG will host the annual N.C. Writers’ Network Spring Conference Saturday, June 2.
The event, a collaboration between the Writer’s Network and the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at UNCG, marks the first time the conference has been held in Greensboro. Many area writing faculty will take part, and Fred Chappell, professor emeritus of creative writing at UNCG and past poet laureate of North Carolina, will deliver the keynote address.
The conference will take place in the Elliott University Center on campus from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Workshop attendance is limited to registrants only. For more information or to register for the conference, log on to www.ncwriters.org or call (919) 967-9540.
Early registration is $110 for Writer’s Network members, $145 for non-members. Walk-in registration is $135 for members, $165 for non-members.
This conference will feature all day workshops with Quinn Dalton (fiction) and Marianne Gingher (memoir). In addition, attendees will have access to intensive courses in poetry (Stuart Dischell and Carolyn Beard Whitlow), creative nonfiction (Lee Zacharias) and fiction (Michael Parker). Editors from Press 53, Main Street Rag Press, International Poetry Review and the Greensboro Review will provide a panel about what it takes to get published.
Two conference events are free and open to the public:
•Keynote address by Fred Chappell at 11:15 a.m.
•Faculty reading and book signing at 4:15 p.m.
The Writers’ Network serves writers at every stage of development through programs that offer ample opportunities for professional growth in skills and insight. The network builds audiences for literature, advocates for the literary arts and for literacy, and provides information and support services. For further information, or if you are interested in becoming a member, call (919) 967-9540.
The Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at UNCG fosters the efforts of those who believe in the power of the crafted word to transform and improve. The beginning wordsmith and the established word master, the student and the professional alike will find in the center a place from which to draw strength, encouragement and support in producing their work and in finding the opportunity to share it with others. For more information on the center, call Dr. Mark Smith-Soto at (336) 334-5655.
