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FICTION
WRITING WORKSHOP WITH BEVERLY LOWRY SATURDAY,
MARCH 29, 8:30-10:45 AM |
In conjunction with the Delta
Blues Symposium IX: Defining the Delta, Arkansas State University’s Dept.
of English & Philosophy will sponsor a creative writing workshop for
fiction writers.
The fiction workshop will be
conducted by award-winning writer Beverly Lowry. Born in Memphis and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, Lowry
earned a BA from the then Memphis State University and now is a professor of
creative writing at George Mason University. She has published several novels, among them the Delta
classics Come Back, Lolly Ray, Emma Blue and The Track of Real Desires. She has also garnered
much acclaim for her book, Crossed Over, a nonfiction account of her friendship with Karla Faye Tucker and a
meditation on the loss of her own son.
Her forthcoming book is a biography of Madame C.J. Walker, titled Her
Dream of Dreams.
Participation in either
workshop will be limited, and students must pre-enroll. Submit 10-15 double spaced pages of
fiction. Send name, address, phone
number, e-mail address (if available), along with your manuscript (don’t
send your only copy!) to:
Creative Writing
Workshops/Delta Symposium Committee
Box 1890
Dept. of English &
Philosophy
Arkansas State University
State University, AR
72467-1890
The deadline for the workshop
is February 28, 2003. Notification
of acceptance will be sent out in early March.
Friday, March 28, Beverly
Lowry will read from her work at 8 pm in the Fowler Center on the ASU campus.
This event is free and open to the public.
JUST ANNOUNCED! AN ADDITIONAL POETRY WORKSHOP WITH POET
DICK LOURIE!
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Lourie, whose books include
Ghost Radio (also available on
CD, Ghost Radio Blues), is a
fascinating performance poet, who has played sax with and been backed by
bluesman Big Jack Johnson, and has been a longtime editor at Hanging Loose
Press, one of the nation’s finest independent publishers. His poem, “Forgiving Our
Fathers,” was prominently featured in the film Smoke Signals. To
be considered for the poetry workshop with Mr. Lourie, please submit no more
than ten pages of poetry to the above address. The deadline is the same, as is the time of notification
of acceptance |
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