The conference began in 2009 and was a huge success and, by all accounts, fun (see pictures here). A creative writing conference can prove particularly valuable for student writers who want to advance their writing skills as well as prepare for graduate school and/or commercial publication. Meeting other writers is simply a good thing.
Below is information about the 2011 conference (May 23-38, University of Houston). Here is how the boldface website describes the conference:
. . . Held in the MD Anderson Library on the University of Houston campus, the bold|face writer’s conference allows the emerging writer the intense studio focus necessary to develop their craft. Lasting five full days, participants can look forward to daily workshops, craft talks, and complementary breakfasts and lunches.
Led by the MFA and PhD candidates of the prestigious University of Houston creative writing program, this year, participants will also be able to sign up for individual feedback sessions from these established working writers:
Dr. David Maclean, creative nonfiction
Author of the memoir, The Answer to the Riddle is Me, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt 2011.
Dr. Darin Ciccotelli, poetry
Published in The Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review among others and a recipient of the James A. Michener Fellowship, an Inprint/C. Glen Cambor Fellowship, an inaugural Houston Writing Fellowship, and several Pushcart Prize nominations.
Dr. Aaron Reynolds, fiction
His stories and essays have appeared in Willow Springs, Third Coast, Sonora Review, Laurel Review, and Gulf Coast. He has also been awarded Donald Barthelme Memorial Fellowships in both fiction and non-fiction at the University of Houston, where he recently received his PhD and continues to teach creative writing full time.
$100 Early bird registration deadline: March 5
$125 regular registration: May 5
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