Wesleyan Writers Conference- A Special One Day Event...

Celebrating The New

Thursday, June 19
9 AM - 10 PM on the Wesleyan University campus

Classes and discussion sessions:

Novel and Short Story
Jess Row, fiction writer selected as one of Granta's 2007 Best New American Novelists

Nonfiction and Memoir
Roya Hakakian, poet, documentary film-maker, and author of the
award-winning memoir, Journey from the Land of New: A Girlhood
Caught in Revolutionary Iran

Journalism and Freelance Writing
Alexandra Peers, noted freelance writer and former editor, reporter and columnist at the Wall Street Journal

Special Event:

Words/Movement/Translation
A workshop and special session with dance/theatre artist Eiko Otake,
winner of a MacArthur Award for her work with partner Komo on performance installations, workshops and dance/video projects.

Panels:

Publishing and New Media
Panel featuring Johnny Temple of Akashic Books, publisher of urban literary fiction and political nonfiction, Amanda Stern of NYC's Happy Ending reading and music series, and John Kulka, expert on digital publishing and founding editor of the Best New American Voices anthology.

Agents and Editors
A panel featuring agents Julie Barer, Esmond Harmsworth, and Daniel Mandel, as well as
editors Denise Roy of Simon and Schuster, Elizabeth England of the literary magazine Epiphany, Jay Baron Nicorvo of  Ploughshares and PEN America, the literary magazine of the PEN American Center and John Kulka of Harvard University Press.

Keynote lecture and book-signing:

New: André Aciman

The 2008 Padraic Colum Lecture and Reading
André Aciman is the author of the novel Call Me by Your Name, of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, and of False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. He has also co-authored and edited The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. Born in Alexandria, he lived in Italy and France. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at Princeton University and Bard College and is currently the chair of The CUNY Graduate Center's Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature and the director of The Writers' Institute at The Graduate Center. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from The New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as in several volumes of Best American Essays

Book-signing to follow.

(Novelist Ha Jin, is unable to attend the conference this year)

 To register for this special one-day event, download a registration form in:

• PDF
• Microsoft Word