Two Keene State College Faculty Members Lead Writers Conference
KEENE, N.H. 6/15/06 - William Doreski and Jeff Friedman, two Keene State College faculty members, are among eight published authors leading the Writers Conference on the KSC campus, July 30-August 5. The week-long conference, focused on helping writers develop their fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, is in its fourth year.
William Doreski is a published author of more than 400 poems and 16 books of poetry, criticism, and memoir. Doreski’s most recent poetry collection is Sacra Via, a book-length sequence of poems about Italy. 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.
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. Friedman won two fellowships from the New Hampshire State Arts Council, the Editor’s Prize from The Missouri Review, and the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize. He has had residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. Friedman is completing a fourth collection of poems and a book of translations of poetry by contemporary Hebrew poets. Friedman, who has taught at Keene State College since 1994, is also a core faculty member in the master of fine arts program in poetry writing at New England College.
Writers Conference participants 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 attendees to write on their 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, including curriculum vitae on the six other faculty members, is available by calling 603-358-2290 and on the web (www.keene.edu/conted/writerconf/2006.pdf).
