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THE "WRITE" STUFF:
Author, poet and documentary film-maker Roya Hakakian speaks on
nonfiction and memoir during the 52nd annual Wesleyan Writers
Conference, held on campus June 15-20. Hakakian is the author of the
award-winning memoir, Journey from the Land of New: A Girlhood Caught
in Revolutionary Iran. A former TV journalist and documentary
filmmaker, she is now a fellow at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center. |
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Participants were offered writing
instruction through group seminars, readings, workshops and one-on-one
manuscript consultations. Each program is designed to offer the
participants new perspectives on their work and the company of other
writers who share similar interests. |
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Conference teacher Katha Pollitt speaks with
participant Tom White of Peterborough, N.H. about literary journalism.
Pollit is a poet, essayist, and columnist/blogger for The Nation.
She is the author of four collections of essays, and has received
two National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism, a Whiting
Writers' Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry and a
Guggenheim fellowship. |
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Conference participant Ann Kelsey of West
Palm Beach, Fla. takes notes during a session on nonfiction. Other
classes included discussions on new fiction, long-form fiction, writing
a memoir, social issues, biography, multimedia publishing and mixed
media. |
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Pictured at far right, back, Elizabeth
England, editor of Epiphany Magazine, discusses what editors look
for and how to get published in small magazines.
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Josip Novakovich, left, speaks with
conference participant Richard Norman of Norwich during a one-on-one
session. Novakovich, taught fiction techniques at the writers
conference, is the author of three story collections and one novel. He
has received the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two
National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Ingram Merrill Award
and an American Book Award. (Photos by Olivia Bartlett) |
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