Mark your calendar now!
Our second annual writers’ conference will take place on Saturday, October 2 at M-State Fergus Falls.
The theme this year is Writing Through Life, Life Through Writing, and we have three outstanding keynote speakers to take us through the writing life.
Victoria Kasten, a rising young author, shares her experiences writing and publishing as a teenager, while Lin Enger, noted author and director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Minnesota State University Moorhead, inspires us to write through the middle years. Mark Vinz, winner of numerous awards and Professor Emeritus of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, encourages writing through the older adult years.
Watch this post for more on the conference, including opportunities to apply for scholarships to the conference, information on workshops, and more.
Hi,
I am wondering what topics will be covered in your other sessions. I am a full-time nonfiction magazine writer, so I’m interested in new ideas regarding that.
Thanks!
dee
Hello Dee,
The workshop titles are:
- Finding Your Travel Voice/Richard Kagen
-Poetry Without Fear/Mark Vinz
-Leads: Action, Dialogue, Reaction, and Place/Linda Lein
-Cultural Loom: How to Weave Culture into Setting & Place/Annie Clark
-Giving a Successful Reading/Athena Kildegaard
-Avoid Writing Scams/Beth Rose
-Heat & Light: Emotion in Poetry/Athena Kildegaard
-Mistakes Editors Hate/Leon Ogroske
-Screenwriting 101/Scott Stewart
-Writing a Juvenile Nonfiction Proposal/ Cammy Wilson
-A Personal Journey/Debbie Kaminski
-Writing About Traumatic Events/Gerri Stowman
-Writing as an Artistic Collaboration/Heidi Kratz
-Effective Writers Groups/Luke Anderson
-I Can’t Really Tell,” She Laughed Coyly/Stash Hempeck
I can send you a more detailed schedule soon, if you’d like.
We hope you’ll be able to come to the conference – it would be great to talk with you about your writing experiences.
Reba Gilliand
Conference Administrator