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Novelist Jill McCorkle, our keynote speaker, heads a stellar list of faculty members for the Hub City's 2009
Writing in Place conference, which will be held July 31-Aug. 2 at Wofford College. Registration is officially open. This year's event also features a Sunday morning keynote session with agent Charles Everitt of Boston, former CEO of Globe Pequot Press. This conference sells out every year, so register early to ensure your place.
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Published novelists, poets, essayists, and literary critics lead a
series of workshops over three days that include intense instruction,
challenging exercises, and an opportunity for feedback.
Registrants must sign up for one of three genres:
poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Our instructors will
expect you to write during this conference, and we have planned a weekend with
"downtime" for that purpose. We also want you to have time for
networking with faculty and new friends.
REGISTER HERE
2009 Faculty
JOHN LANE (Creative Nonfiction) is the author of three books of essay/memoir from the University of Georgia Press, including most recently, Circling Home. He has been published in The Southern Review, Agni, The Fourth Genre and National Geographic Books. John teaches creative writing and environmental studies at Wofford College. He also writes a weekly newspaper column called the "Kudzu Telegraph."
SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS (Creative Nonfiction) teaches at Warren
Wilson College
in Asheville and
edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal. His poems have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, New England Review, Post Road, Seneca Review, Tin House, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. His collection of poems, We Generous, was published by Red Hen Press.
JILL MCCORKLE (Fiction) is the author of five novels, most recently Creatures of Habit (A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2003). Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Magazine, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South.
A recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize (1999) and the North Carolina
Award for Literature (1999), she is
currently on faculty at North Carolina State University.
GLENIS REDMOND (Poetry) is a poet, educator and performer from Asheville, North Carolina. She is a
Kennedy Teaching Artist and her work has aired on National Public Radio. She has been published most recently in Meridians, African
Voices, EMRYS, and The Asheville Poetry Review. Her full-length collection of poetry, Backbone, is published by Underground Epics.
RON STODGHILL (Creative Nonfiction) is a staff writer for the New York Times. He was educated at the University of Missouri and Harvard University, where he was a Nieman Fellow. His work has appeared in Time, BusinessWeek, Essence, and several newspapers. A former editor in chief of Savoy magazine, Stodghill divides his time between New York City and Charlotte.
ASHLEY WARLICK (Fiction) is the author of three novels, The Distance From The Heart
of Things (1996), The Summer After June (2000),
and Seek the Living (2005), all
published by Houghton Mifflin.
In
2006, she received a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for
the Arts. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at Queens University and at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and
Humanities.
CHARLES EVERITT (Literary Agent) After 35 years on the editor/publisher side of the
desk, Charles Everitt has been a
literary agent for 11 years. Originally a news editor at Publishers Weekly, he moved up to
Little, Brown in Boston for 14 years as managing editor, foreign rights
manager, and associate editor acquiring and editing 10-15 primarily nonfiction
books a year. After a two-year detour as a founder of WorldPaper, an international newspaper supplement with over 1 million
circulation on five continents, in 1979 Everitt became president of the Globe
Pequot Press. During his fifteen years as CEO and publisher, the company
concentrated on useful non-fiction, building toward what that company is today.
Charles Everitt Literary Agency, Inc., is a one-person office outside of Boston
which represents history, memoir, business, animal rights, health (public and
personal), outdoor, and a few fiction, writers. All but two of these clients
were first-time authors.
Concurrent session faculty to be released soon.
Schedule
Friday
5:00 pm Registration begins
6:00 pm Barbecue
7:00 pm Writing classes
8:00 pm Panel discussion with faculty
Saturday
8:00 am Coffee and Danish
9:00 am Opening session
9:30 am Writing classes
Noon: Lunch
1 pm Writing time
3 pm Writing classes
6 pm Social Hour/Dinner at Hub-bub
7:30 pm Keynote with Jill McCorkle
8:30 pm Open mic
Sunday
8:00 am Coffee and Danish
9-10:30 Keynote with agent Charles Everitt
10:45-12 Four Concurrent sessions
1. MEMOIR IN A DIGITAL AGE (George Williams) Learn to document and reflect upon your life through the use of various simple
and affordable (or free!) digital tools and media. Participants will learn to
combine their choice of text, image, sound, and video to create a memoir
appropriate for the digital age in which we live. No advanced computing skills
required.
Others Pending
Conference lodging
Lodging is available in a Wofford
College dormitory for $20
a night. These are single rooms, and you will not have a roommate. Please check
the appropriate box if you intend to stay at Wofford. Other hotels in the area
include the Marriott at Renaissance Park (864-596-1211), the Inn on Main (864-585-5001),
and the Fairfield
(864-542-0333). PLEASE NOTE: The
Wofford dorm rooms are spartan, and the beds are four feet off the floor. If
you have difficulty reaching a bed that high, please consider a motel room.
What to bring
For your comfort, please bring a sweater or jacket. Classrooms can sometimes
be chilly. Bring a notebook and writing instrument. You may also bring a
laptop. If you want to take part in the open mic, bring a short piece of your
work to read. Overnighters should bring a pillow and blanket for a single bed.
Sheets and towels are provided.
About Manuscript Critiques
Manuscript critiques are available on Sunday morning on a first-come, first-served basis. The price is $30 for a 30-minute session. You can sign up for these as you register. Then you will send us one copy of your manuscript by July 1. Manuscript limits are: poetry: 5 poems; short story, creative nonfiction, or screenwriting: 15 pages. Please do no send more pages than stipulated, and do not revise the manuscript once sent.
Discounts
If you have joined the Hub City Writers Project as a member at the $30 level or higher, tuition to the conference is reduced to $170. This membership also entitles you to 25 percent discount on Hub City books. If you have questions about whether you have made a donation, email us. The DONATE button is on the home page.
Conference history
Past Instructors and keynote speakers for our conference have included: Tommy Hays, Fred
Chappell, George Singleton, Elizabeth Cox, Ron Rash, Betsy Cox, Nikky Finney, Janisse Ray,
Rebecca McClanahan, Claire Bateman, Dot Jackson, Rick Mulkey, Frye Gaillard, Ruth Moose, Rosa Shand,
Cathy Smith Bowers, Deno Trakas, Tom McConnell, and many others.
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