Register now for the 2010 Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference
by Kathleen McCoy |
Conference features award-winning, nationally recognized authors, editors and agents
The Kachemak Bay Campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage's Kenai Peninsula College is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the upcoming, highly-acclaimed 2010 Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference to be held on June 11-15 at Land's End Resort in Homer, Alaska. This year's keynote presenter will be Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Michael Cunningham.
The conference will feature 17 other award-winning, nationally-recognized authors, editors and agents who will conduct creative writing workshops, readings, craft talks and panel presentations in fiction, nonfiction, children's writing, poetry and the business of writing. Optional activities include manuscript reviews, editor-agent consultations, receptions, a boat cruise and open "mic." The evening readings on June 13-15 by visiting writers and conference registrants will be open to the general public at no charge. A special post-conference workshop will be held at Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge for conference registrants.
Noted conference faculty include Richard Chiappone, Elisabeth Dabney, April Eberhardt, Karen Joy Fowler, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Joan Kane, Len Kamerling, Nancy Lord, Dinty Moore, Jennifer Pooley, Bill Roorbach, Eva Saulitis, Joni Sensel, Peggy Shumaker, Sherry Simpson, Maurya Simon and lEmily Wall.
The early registration fee is $325 until April 30, space available. There is a special UA admitted student rate at $225 until May 1 (admitted degree-seeking students). Advanced registration is required. Major conference benefactors include Alaska Humanities Forum, Alaska State Council on the Arts, First National Bank Alaska, Era Aviation, Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College, Lands End Resort, University of Alaska's BP/ConocoPhillips Fund-UA Vice President, UAA, Icicle Seafoods, Usibelli Foundation and many individual donors.
For more program and registration information e-mail iyconf@uaa.alaska.edu, call (907) 235-7743 or visit http://writersconference.homer.alaska.edu.
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