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Details * WC&C Scholarship Competition Contests WC&C Scholarship Submissions of fiction and poetry are welcome between December 1 and March 30. Details * Conference & Bookfair Schedule Conference & Bookfair Event Schedule Our 2013 Conference & Bookfair will feature more than 500 events. Details Calendar + Feb 07 Writers Studio at UCLA Extension Presented by the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, the Writers Studio at UCLA Extension is an intensive four days of instruction and writing. + Feb 22 Arizona State University - Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference Sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, Desert Nights, Rising Stars returns with new faces, old friends, and a renewed emphasis on developing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a true community of writer + Mar 06 AWP Annual Conference Each year, AWP holds its Annual Conference & Bookfair in a different city to celebrate the authors, teachers, writing programs, literary centers, and independent publishers of that region. The conference typically features 450 readings, lectures, panel di + Mar 15 Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference: Intensive A small (maximum 8), highly selective master conference (including, but not limited to, previous attendees). Total immersion for poetry manuscript with poets and editors Joan Houlihan and Martha Rhodes. + Mar 19 University of North Dakota Writers Conference The 44th Annual UND Writers Conference features Tony Kushner, Cheryl Strayed, Gary Shteyngart, Mary Jo Bang, Dorothy Allison, Richard Bausch, Nick Flynn, and Ed Bok Lee. + Mar 21 Write Stuff, The The Write Stuff is the annual conference of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group. It offers valuable opportunities to network with and learn from published authors, agents, editors, and other writers. + Mar 30 National Black Writers Conference Bi-Annual Symposium The National Black Writers' Conference is dedicated to the exploration of emerging themes, trends and issues in Black American literature. It is hosted by the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY and attracts writers, scholars, editor View full calendar... Writer's Chronicle New February 2013 Writer's Chronicle Cover February 2013 View Online Download Our App Subscribe Editor's Choice A monthly feature from our Writer's Chronicle archives. Become a member to access more than 1,100 articles. Why I Keep a Journal: Autobiographical Versus True Fiction Robin Hemley | December 1989 The Writer's News + January 10, 2013 AWP Announces Finalists for the 2013 Small Press Publisher Award. AWP is pleased to announce the finalists for its 2013 Small Press Publisher Award. Read more... + December 12, 2012 Playful Chooseable-Path Version of Hamlet Draws Big Bucks. On Kickstarter, the website that helps promote crowd-funded projects, a choose-your-own-way edition of Shakespeare’s tragic play, Hamlet, called, To Be or Not to Be: That is the Adventure, has received, as of early December, nearly $300,000 in support from interested readers. Read more... + December 12, 2012 Philip Roth Announces he has Finished Writing. In an announcement he made in October in an interview to the French media, novelist Philip Roth, now 76 years old, declared he was all finished with writing, effectively making his 2010 novel, Nemesis, his final work of fiction. Read more... 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