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The 65th IU Writers Conference is set to run June 5-10 on the Bloomington campus, featuring 12 award-winning writers, some of whom make their homes near the IU Bloomington campus.
Writers scheduled to conduct workshops and participate in a free series of evening readings are: Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa; IU English professor and fiction writer Tony Ardizzone; Mark Axelrod, David Lazar, Carol Bly, David Leavitt, Cynie Cory, Brian Leung, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Martha Rhodes, Ruth Ellen Kocher and IU English professor and poet Maura Stanton.
In addition to poetry and fiction workshops, classes to be offered include: Texture and Preparation: The Emotional Arc and Psychology of a Poem; Sounds Like an Orange, Smells Like a Mile: Risk Taking in Compact Fiction; Memory and Desire in the Essay and Memoir; From Aristotle to Rocky: Introduction to Screenwriting; Introductory Non-Fiction and Fiction; and Introductory Poetry.
The conference will be sponsoring its annual Evening Reading Series from Sunday, June 5, through Thursday, June 9. Readings are free and will begin at 8 p.m. in Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union, followed by refreshments at the University Club.
Scheduled readers are:
Sunday, June 5: David Leavitt and Ruth Ellen Kocher |
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| Leavitt |
Kocher |
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Monday, June 6: Mark Axelrod, Cynie Cory and Carol Bly |
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Tuesday, June 7: Brian Leung, David Lazar and Martha Rhodes |
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Wednesday, June 8: Tony Ardizzone and Maura Stanton |
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Stanton |
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| Thursday, June 9: Yusef Komunyakaa and Chitra Divakaruni |
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| Komunyakaa |
Divakaruni |
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Go to this Web site for more information on registering for participation or for biographical material on the readers:
http://www.indiana.edu/~writecon |
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