The C.D. Wright Writers Conference
will be November 7-8, 2025.​

Photo by Marley Cash-Powell

The 2025 C.D. Wright Writers Conference will be held at the University of Central Arkansas in McCastlain Hall.
Registration information can be found via this link. 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH
4:30-6pm             Check-in
7:30-8:30pm        Location: Lobby, McCastlain Hall

5-8:30pm        Keynote with Bessie Flores Zaldívar and Reception
                         Location: Ballroom

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH
7:30-8:15am         Breakfast
                                Location: Ballroom

8:30-9:45am         Professor Acie Clark and UCA Students
                                Location: Fireplace Room
                                Presenters: Acie Clark, TBD

10-11:15 am         Talking With, Talking Back: The Art and Process of Collaborative Writing
                                Location: Fireplace Room
                                Presenters: Madeline Mundkowsky, Carter Crane, Charlotte Miller, Alaina May, Avery Cagle; Moderated by Colleen Mayo
                                Lyric Biography Workshop
                                Location: Art Lecture Hall
                                Presenters: Megan Clark, Jane VB Larson

11:15am-12:15pm     Lunch
                                       Location: Ballroom
            
12:30-1:45pm         Poetry as Divination and Incantation: A Two-Way Reading and Intuitive Process Exercises 
                                  Location: Art Lecture Hall 
                                  Presenters: Hyejung Kook, Michele Battiste
                                  Reclaiming Composition from ChatGPT: Multimodal Creativity as Post-AI Pedagogy
                                  Location: Fireplace Room
                                  Presenters: Taylor Guesnier, Nimi Finnigan, Katherine Jackson

2-3:15pm        Introducing Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology
                         Location: Art Lecture Hall
                         Presenters: Ann Fisher-Wirth, Laura-Gray Street, Melissa Ginsburg, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Sandy Longhorn
                         Creative Reading
                         Location: Fireplace Room
                         Presenters: Coffy Davis, Kim Horner

3:30-4:45pm        Poems that Write Down the Body: An Interactive and Nonprescriptive Reading
                               Location: Fireplace Room
                               Presenters: Amy Ash, Alyse Bensel, Sara Henning, Nabila Lovelace
                               The Poem is a Box: Leaning Into Mystery, a Generative Workshop
                               Location: Art Lecture Hall
                               Presenters: Nicole Callihan, Julie Choffel, Joy Katz, Anna V. Q. Ross

5:00-6:00pm        Reception
                               Location: Ballroom