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WESLEYAN WRITERS CONFERENCE

June 15-20, 2008

JOIN US FOR OUR 52nd YEAR

  Click here for registration details

Extended deadline for manuscript submissions--You now have until May 23 to send the material you'll discuss with your reader.

 

 Festival of the New, June 19

A special option for those of you who can only join us for one day--

Master classes, workshops, readings, publishing and featured speakers including Jess Row, Roya Hakakian, and Ha Jin!

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I am delighted to know of your interest in the 2008 Wesleyan Writers Conference. You will find an overview of the program here along with information about our new staff.

The Wesleyan Writers Conference welcomes new writers, established writers, and anyone anyone interested in the writer's craft.

The program includes seminars, readings, workshops, publishing advice, and optional manuscript consultations, all designed to offer you new perspectives on your work and the company of other writers who share your interests.

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

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

 

 

Our 2008 Program:

The Conference week includes seminars and workshops in the novel, short story, fiction techniques, poetry, memoir, essay, long-form nonfiction, and multi-media work, as well as guest speakers, lectures, readings, (optional) manuscript consultations, and publishing advice.

Keep watching this site for more faculty and speakers

Our staff includes:

 

  • Special Guest: MacArthur-winning dance artist/translator Eiko Otake of Eiko & Koma on Translation and Movement

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • and Teaching Fellows (junior faculty) to be announced

If you would like to be on our mailing list, please forward your information.  Include both your email and mailing address. 

 

 
News!

2007 Conference participant, Ted Wheeler, has been selected for the next edition of the prestigious BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES anthology.

Each year the Conference selects two outstanding stories written by Conference participants and nominates them for the next edition of the anthology, a collection of work by some of the nation's most promising new writers.  Other Wesleyan winners appearing recently in BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES include Elizabeth Kadetsky, Dan Pope, and Michael Lowenthal.

You will find program details, registration information, and fellowship/scholarship guidelines by using the links below.

 

 

 

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QUESTIONS? Contact Anne Greene | agreene@wesleyan.edu | 860-685-3604