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4th Annual Writers Conference at Keene State College

KEENE, N.H. 6/1/06 - Keene State College announces registration is open for its 4th annual Writers Conference, July 30-August 5, 2006.

Bringing eight published authors to campus, the week-long conference focuses on helping writers develop their fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry.

The faculty includes:

Celia Bland’s most recent collection of poems, Captions for Cartoons Not Yet Drawn, is among the finalists for the Center for Book Arts chapbook prize. Her 2004 collection, Soft Box, received the silver medal for poetry by ForeWord magazine. Bland’s poems appeared in Shenandoah, Natural Bridge, Heliotrope, Entelechy, Prima Matera, and Sui Generis and in anthologies published by Faber and Faber, Oxford Poetry, and Persea Books. Dean of studies at Bard College, Bland teaches poetry and first-year seminar at Bard.

William Doreski is a published author of more than 400 poems and 16 books of poetry, criticism, and memoir. His nonfiction work includes The Sun Keeps Setting, about the last months of his father’s life. An English professor, he has taught creative writing at Keene State College since 1982.

Jack Driscoll authored four books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and three novels. His novel Lucky Man, Lucky Woman received the 1998 Pushcart Book Editors Award. His wok appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, Civilization, Poetry, and Ploughshares, among other publications.

Jeff Friedman wrote four collections of poetry, with Black Threads scheduled for publication this year. His poems and translations appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, and The New Republic, among other literary magazines. He is a faculty member in the master of fine arts program in poetry writing at New England College.

Laurie Alberts wrote three novels, a story collection, and two memoirs. Her most recent book, Between Revolutions: An American Romance with Russia, was published in 2005. She received a Michener Award for the Novel, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Prize for short story, and an American Fiction award, among other honors. Alberts attended the Iowa Writers Workshop and now teaches fiction and creative nonfiction in the Vermont College master of fine arts and writing program.

Joseph Monninger is the author of two nonfiction books, A Barn in New England: Making a Home on Three Acres and Home Waters: Fishing with an Old Friend and eight novels. An associate professor of English at Plymouth State University, he is also a fishing guide and writes a column appearing in several New Hampshire newspapers.

Dzvinia Orlowsky, author of three collections of poetry, has her fourth, Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones, slated for publication in 2008. She is a founding editor of Four Way Books and a contributing editor to Agni and other magazines. Orlowsky, 1998 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council poetry grant, is a faculty member in the master of fine arts program at Pine Manor College.

Rebecca Rule is the author of two collections of short fiction for adults: Wood Heat and The Best Revenge. She coauthored two how-to-write books with Susan Wheeler, Creating the Story and True Stories. Her audiotapes of Yankee humor are Perley Gets a Dumpsticker, Fishing With George, and Mavis Goes to Yoga. Her column on New Hampshire writers, “Bookmarks,” appears in the Concord Monitor, Nashua Telegraph, and Portsmouth Herald.

Writers spend each day in workshops with other writers, meeting individually with instructors and visiting writers, and attending readings. Time is set aside each day for writing on your own.

The base cost is $950 with additional costs for academic credit at the undergraduate or graduate level and/or conference housing.

Information about the Keene State College Writers Conference is available by calling 603-358-2290 and on the web at www.keene.edu/conted/writerconf/2006.p df.

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