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Highland Summer Conference |
Discover the Power of Writing with Powerful Writers Earn 3 hours credit in English 490/590 for a two-week workshop in creative and expository writing. Register now for June 2-13, 2008! The 31st Annual Highland Summer Conference will be held at Radford University, during Summer Session I, from June 2 to June 13, 2008. The Highland Summer Conference is a two-week lecture-seminar workshop combination conducted by well-known guest writers. It offers the opportunity to study and practice creative and expository writing within the context of regional culture. The course is graded on Pass/Fail basis for undergraduates and letter grades for graduate students. It may be taken twice for credit. The class runs Monday through Friday afternoons, 1:30-4:30, with readings and receptions by visiting authors on Tuesday and Thursday evening in McConnell Library from 7:30-9:30. The evening readings are free and open to the public. This year's Highland Summer Conference will be conducted the first week by Darnell Arnoult, who is the author of Sufficient Grace and What Travels With Us: Poems. The second week of the Conference will be conducted by author Frank X Walker, whose works include Affrilachia: Poems, Black Box, Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York, When Winter Come: The Ascension of York, and is the Founding Editor of Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture. The evening readings are:
Writer and RU Professor Dr. Rick Van Noy – Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Poet and Novelist Darnell Arnoult – Thursday, June 5, 2008
Poet Dana Wildsmith – Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Affrilachian Poet Frank X Walker – Thursday, June 12, 2008 All readings will be at 7:30 p.m. in McConnell Library and are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Dr. Grace Toney Edwards or Dana Stoker Cochran, Appalachian Regional Studies Center, Box 7014, Radford University, Radford, VA 24142. Call 540-831-5366 or 540-831-6152. E-mail dcochran7@radford.edu. Fax: 540-831-5951.
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