The Wesleyan Writers Conference

WESLEYAN WRITERS CONFERENCE

June 14-19, 2009

JOIN US FOR OUR 53rd YEAR

Participants: Click here for arrival information.

For Conference schedule click here

The Wesleyan Writers Conference welcomes new writers, established writers, and 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 

 

 

 

  New one-day program June 18th- click here

 

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Our faculty includes:

  • Fiction writers Amy Bloom, Andre Aciman, Alexander Chee,  Roxana Robinson,  Paul Vidich, Kit Reed, and others

  • Poets  Ravi Shankar, Peter Cole and others

  • Nonfiction writers  Katha Pollitt, Lis Harris, Alexandra Peers, Sadia Shepard,  and others

  • Editor-in-Residence Michael Rosovsky

  • Publisher  Johnny Temple and agent Julie Barer and others

Panels and guest speakers:

  • Readings of New Fiction

  • Documentary Film and Family Biography

  • The Future of Journalism

  • New Forms of The Story

  • Poetry Today

  • Graphic Novels

  • Poetry and Translation

  • Choosing an MFA Program

  • Submitting Your Work For Publication 

  • Talks With Editors and Agents

  • Blogs and Digital Media

Our 2009 program includes:

 

 

Seminars and workshops in the novel, short story, fiction techniques, poetry, memoir, essay, long-form nonfiction, and multi- media work. 

 

 

 

 

              Manuscript Consultations

 

 

     

 

           Publishing Advice

 

 

 

Best New American Voices winners

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.