Please call me if you have any questions. I'd love to talk with you.

Anne Greene

Conference Director
860-685-3604
or agreene@wesleyan.edu

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June 14-17, 2012
Our 56th year
One-day program- June 16

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Announcements

Arrival information will be posted here on Monday, May 21st. 

Interested in registering now, or after the deadlines?

Click here to register or contact Anne Greene 
agreene@wesleyan.edu | 860-685-3604

 

We are delighted to announce the 2012 teaching fellows in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction:

Kate Maruyama (Fellow in Fiction), Emily McLaughlin (Fellow in Fiction),
T. Zachary Cotler (Fellow in Poetry) and Janet O’Shea (Barach Fellow in Nonfiction)

Click here for more info. 

We have extended our deadlines:

You now have until May 21 to submit a manuscript for consultation. 
Click here for details.

 You now have until May 29 to pay the balance of your conference fees.

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The Conference welcomes new writers, established writers, and everyone interested in the writer's craft. Join us and work with a faculty of nationally known writers, editors, and agents, and meet fellow writers who share your interests.  Please call me if you would like to discuss the program. I would love to hear about your work, and I look forward to seeing you in June.
                                      -Anne Greene, Director
                                       agreene@wesleyan.edu or 860-685-3604

 

The Program includes:
Seminars * Lectures * Readings * Workshops * Manuscript Consultations * Talks with Editors and Agents

2012 Special Sessions:
The Novel * Short Story * Poetry * Nonfiction * Memoir * Biography * Journalism * Writing for Film and TV * New Media * Writing about Food and Travel * Writing about Science and Medicine * Preparing Your Work for Publication * How to Sell Your Book * The Significance of the Short Story

2012 Faculty include:
Amy Bloom, Peter Blauner, Wells Tower, Roxana Robinson, Kit Reed, Lis Harris, Honor Moore, Paul LaFarge, Sarah Stern, Ben Loory, Joseph J. Fins, MD, and journalists William Finnegan and Peg Tyre.

2012 Publishers, Agents and Editors:
Andre Bernard, Pamela Dorman of Viking, Johnny Temple of Akashik, Max Rudin of Library of America, and agents Stuart Krichevsky, and Bill Contardi.

 

Recent Speakers

Edward P. Jones

Robert Stone

Amy Bloom

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What people say about us...

"I was inspired not only by the faculty but by the commitment and enthusiasm of the participants."

Magdelena Reyna '07