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Programs:
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 8-19, 2009! The 32nd Annual Highland Summer Conference will be held at Radford University, during Summer Session I, from June 8 to June 19, 2009. 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 Crystal Wilkinson, who is the author of Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. The second week of the Conference will be conducted by author Cathy Smith Bowers, whose works include The Love that Ended Yesterday in Texas, A Book of Minutes, and Traveling in Time of Danger. The evening readings are:
Writer and RU Professor Jim Minick – Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Poet Crystal Wilkinson – Thursday, June 11, 2009
Novelist Sharyn McCrumb - Tuesday June 16, 2009
Poet Cathy Smith Bowers – Thursday, June 18, 2009 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 Ruth Derrick, Appalachian Regional Studies Center, Box 7014, Radford University, Radford, VA 24142. Call 540-831-5366 or 540-831-6152. E-mail rbderrick@radford.edu. Fax: 540-831-5951.
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