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A Note from the Director
Friends,
Greetings from Conway, Arkansas!
Last month, we kicked off preparations for the 2018 conference (November 9–10) with the launch of our Call for Proposals (deadline April 15). This month, we are excited to introduce you all to our Friday night keynote speaker, the poet and writers' advocate Allison Joseph!
For those of you attending the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) in Tampa, we look forward to meeting you. Stop by our booth, #1606, for a friendly smile and a wee bit of swag.
In the meantime, please help us create a diverse and lively conference by sharing this newsletter with writers far and wide!
As we continue our preparations, we wish you all happy reading, happy writing.
~ Sandy Longhorn, Director of the C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference
Allison Joseph to be Friday Night Keynote Speaker The C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference is thrilled to announce Allison Joseph as our keynote speaker for Friday, November 9, 2018. The conference will kick off Friday evening with Joseph's reading and book signing, followed by a reception for conference attendees.
Allison Joseph lives in Carbondale, Illinois, and directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University, where she is the Judge Williams Holmes Cook Endowed Professor of English. She also serves as poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. Joseph is the author of over 16 books of poetry, both full-length collections and chapbooks. Her next full-length book of poetry, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, is due from Red Hen Press in March 2018.
Born in London, England, to Caribbean parents, Joseph grew up in Toronto and the Bronx. She earned her BA from Kenyon College and MFA from Indiana University. Her work frequently joins autobiography to cultural narratives and histories of Afro-Carib communities and moves seamlessly between formal and free verse. Joseph’s honors and awards include fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences and from the Illinois Arts Council. She is the recipient of a George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. At Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Joseph ran the esteemed Young Writers Workshop (YWW), a summer program for high school students, until it ended in 2016. In addition, she is the creator (in 2005) and facilitator of the most important electronic mailing list for creative writers, CRWROPPS, the Creative Writing Opportunities list, which serves as a clearinghouse for calls for submissions, job openings, and contest information, and which maintains a nearly daily presence in subscribers’ inboxes.
In interviews and reviews, Joseph has garnered this praise:
"Wise and clear-eyed, charting moments of tenderness and emotion in everyday life." ~ Matthew Thorburn, Ploughshares
"One of the best poets and most tireless literary citizens this side of the Milky Way." ~ Michael Meyerhofer, Atticus Reivew
"[Has the] ability to capture the human experience ... strikes a chord with readers regardless of race."
~ Kiandra Jimenez, Lunch Ticket
Call for Proposals
Deadline
May 15
Click Here!Tayari Jones, 2017 Keynote, in the News
Anyone who attended our 2017 keynote event with Tayari Jones knows how excited we all were when An American Marriage finally hit the bookstore shelves. It is with even more excitement that we congratulate Tayari Jones on her latest sweep of good news. Last month, Oprah Winfrey announced that An American Marriage was her next book club selection. The book also showed up as a February selection for Book of the Month and has been garnering rave reviews in publications like The Washington Post, The Rumpus, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Times.
If you haven't had a chance to pick up a copy of An American Marriage, you might want to add it to your list!
Recommended Reading We offer here a brief list of women writers whose work has made an impression on our lives. If you would like to send us a recommendation for consideration,* email the director, Sandy Longhorn, at slonghorn@uca.edu. Please include the author’s name and one representative title. Remember, we hope to support writers in all genres and styles from mass market to literary or academic, from bloggers to journalists. Help us spread the word about fantastic women writers of today or yesterday.
*The Executive Committee will make the final decision on which titles to feature.
Tayari Jones ~ An American Marriage ~ fiction (Algonquin Books, 2018)
Dorianne Laux ~ What We Carry ~ poetry (BOA Editions, 1994)
Ursula K. Le Guin ~ No Time to Spare ~ essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Celeste Ng ~ Everything I Never Told You ~ fiction (Penguin Books, Reprint 2015)
Amanda Palmer ~ The Art of Asking ~ nonfiction (Grand Central Publishing, Reprint 2015)
Maggie Smith ~ The Well Speaks of Its Own poison ~ poetry (Tupelo Press, 2015)
Helen Thomas ~ Front Row at the White House ~ Nonfiction (Scribner Book Company, 2000)
Michele Wright ~ Dear Success Seeker: Wisdom from Outstanding Women ~ essays (Atria Books, 2009)
Friends,
Greetings from Conway, Arkansas!
Last month, we kicked off preparations for the 2018 conference (November 9–10) with the launch of our Call for Proposals (deadline April 15). This month, we are excited to introduce you all to our Friday night keynote speaker, the poet and writers' advocate Allison Joseph!
For those of you attending the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) in Tampa, we look forward to meeting you. Stop by our booth, #1606, for a friendly smile and a wee bit of swag.
In the meantime, please help us create a diverse and lively conference by sharing this newsletter with writers far and wide!
As we continue our preparations, we wish you all happy reading, happy writing.
~ Sandy Longhorn, Director of the C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference
Allison Joseph to be Friday Night Keynote Speaker The C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference is thrilled to announce Allison Joseph as our keynote speaker for Friday, November 9, 2018. The conference will kick off Friday evening with Joseph's reading and book signing, followed by a reception for conference attendees.
Allison Joseph lives in Carbondale, Illinois, and directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University, where she is the Judge Williams Holmes Cook Endowed Professor of English. She also serves as poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. Joseph is the author of over 16 books of poetry, both full-length collections and chapbooks. Her next full-length book of poetry, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, is due from Red Hen Press in March 2018.
Born in London, England, to Caribbean parents, Joseph grew up in Toronto and the Bronx. She earned her BA from Kenyon College and MFA from Indiana University. Her work frequently joins autobiography to cultural narratives and histories of Afro-Carib communities and moves seamlessly between formal and free verse. Joseph’s honors and awards include fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences and from the Illinois Arts Council. She is the recipient of a George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. At Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Joseph ran the esteemed Young Writers Workshop (YWW), a summer program for high school students, until it ended in 2016. In addition, she is the creator (in 2005) and facilitator of the most important electronic mailing list for creative writers, CRWROPPS, the Creative Writing Opportunities list, which serves as a clearinghouse for calls for submissions, job openings, and contest information, and which maintains a nearly daily presence in subscribers’ inboxes.
In interviews and reviews, Joseph has garnered this praise:
"Wise and clear-eyed, charting moments of tenderness and emotion in everyday life." ~ Matthew Thorburn, Ploughshares
"One of the best poets and most tireless literary citizens this side of the Milky Way." ~ Michael Meyerhofer, Atticus Reivew
"[Has the] ability to capture the human experience ... strikes a chord with readers regardless of race."
~ Kiandra Jimenez, Lunch Ticket
Call for Proposals
Deadline
May 15
Click Here!Tayari Jones, 2017 Keynote, in the News
Anyone who attended our 2017 keynote event with Tayari Jones knows how excited we all were when An American Marriage finally hit the bookstore shelves. It is with even more excitement that we congratulate Tayari Jones on her latest sweep of good news. Last month, Oprah Winfrey announced that An American Marriage was her next book club selection. The book also showed up as a February selection for Book of the Month and has been garnering rave reviews in publications like The Washington Post, The Rumpus, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Times.
If you haven't had a chance to pick up a copy of An American Marriage, you might want to add it to your list!
Recommended Reading We offer here a brief list of women writers whose work has made an impression on our lives. If you would like to send us a recommendation for consideration,* email the director, Sandy Longhorn, at slonghorn@uca.edu. Please include the author’s name and one representative title. Remember, we hope to support writers in all genres and styles from mass market to literary or academic, from bloggers to journalists. Help us spread the word about fantastic women writers of today or yesterday.
*The Executive Committee will make the final decision on which titles to feature.
Tayari Jones ~ An American Marriage ~ fiction (Algonquin Books, 2018)
Dorianne Laux ~ What We Carry ~ poetry (BOA Editions, 1994)
Ursula K. Le Guin ~ No Time to Spare ~ essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Celeste Ng ~ Everything I Never Told You ~ fiction (Penguin Books, Reprint 2015)
Amanda Palmer ~ The Art of Asking ~ nonfiction (Grand Central Publishing, Reprint 2015)
Maggie Smith ~ The Well Speaks of Its Own poison ~ poetry (Tupelo Press, 2015)
Helen Thomas ~ Front Row at the White House ~ Nonfiction (Scribner Book Company, 2000)
Michele Wright ~ Dear Success Seeker: Wisdom from Outstanding Women ~ essays (Atria Books, 2009)