2003 EKU Creative Writing Conference

 Come write and grow with us

June 16—20

Richmond, KY

SCHEDULE

MONDAY, JUNE 16

9:00—11:00: Registration

11:00—12:00: Lunch with Harry Brown*

12:15—3:15: Poetry Session with Harry Brown

3:30—5:30: Conferences with Harry Brown

6:00: Dinner

TUESDAY, JUNE 17

9:00—12:00: Fiction Session with Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet

12:15—1:15: Lunch with Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet*

1:30—3:30: Conferences with Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet

4:00—5:30: Panel with Hal Blythe, Harry Brown, Charlie Sweet

6:00: Dinner

7:30: Reading with Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18

9:00—12:00: Poetry Session with Christine Delea

12:15—1:15: Lunch with Christine Delea*

1:30—3:30: Conferences with Christine Delea

3:45—5:00: Group Outing

6:00: Dinner

7:30: Reading with Harry Brown and Christine Delea

THURSDAY, JUNE 19

9:00—12:00: Fiction Session with Marie Manilla

12:15—1:15: Lunch with Marie Manilla*

1:30—3:30: Conferences with Marie Manilla

4:00—5:30: Panel with Christine Delea, James Baker Hall, Marie Manilla

6:00: Dinner

7:30: Reading with James Baker Hall and Marie Manilla

FRIDAY, JUNE 20

9:00—12:00: Poetry Session with James Baker Hall

12:15—1:15: Lunch with James Baker Hall*

1:30—3:30: Conferences with James Baker Hall

4:00—5:00: Panel on Publishing

5:30: Dinner and Student Readings

 All lunches will take place in the Faculty Dining Room in the Powell Building. If you wish to join us for lunch each day—and the lunches are open to all conference participants, so we hope you will join us—please send $30 to Christine Delea prior to the conference, and indicate that your check or money order is for the lunches.

All workshop sessions will take place in Case Annex 470.

All individual conferences will take place in Case Annex 470.

All craft panels will take place in Walnut Hall in the Keen Johnson Building.

All readings will take place in Walnut Hall in the Keen Johnson Building.

ALL CRAFT PANELS AND READINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

AND ARE FREE OF CHARGE.

REGISTRATION

Conference participants must register for 503 (undergraduate) or 703 (graduate) to receive 1 hour credit. Participants who do not want college credit must sign up for 503 as an auditor. Kentucky residents 65 and over are eligible for O’Donnell scholarships. You must register to attend the conference; academic credit will be given to participants who attend all conference events.

In-state undergraduate (503): $122

Out-of-state undergraduate (503): $335

In-state graduate (703): $176

Out-of-state graduate (703): $487

MANUSCRIPTS

Clean manuscripts must be sent to the Conference Director with a cover sheet stating your name, address, phone number, and email address. These manuscripts must be postmarked by May 9. When we receive your manuscript, we will send you registration material, and once you register, your manuscript will be sent to the appropriate teacher.

Poetry: up to 10 pages, single-spaced

Fiction: up to 20 pages, double-spaced

If your manuscript is part of a longer piece, please summarize the missing section and the piece as a whole in one page or less.

Housing

Housing is available on EKU’s campus. Richmond also has many motels; if you would like information on area motels, please contact the Conference Director.

On-campus housing:

Single occupancy: $15 per night

Double occupancy: $10 per night

You may stay in campus housing from June 15 through June 21. If you would like to share a room, both participants must provide both names on the housing form. Housing forms will be sent with registration materials.

Campus rooms are equipped with phone jacks and refrigerators. Dorms are equipped with stoves and microwaves.

Please bring bedding (sheets, pillow cases, blankets), pillows, towels, toilettries, and shower caddy.

All rooms are air-conditioned.

Poetry: Harry Brown, Christine Delea, James Baker Hall

Fiction: Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet, Marie Manilla

At EKU since 1972, Hal Blythe is a Foundation Professor of English whose major areas of teaching are Creative Writing, Literary Theory and Criticism, and World Literature.  In addition to his teaching duties, Hal was founding co-director of EKU's Teaching and Learning Center and serves as the director of the University's faculty mentoring program. Hal has enjoyed a writing partnership with Charlie Sweet that began in 1974 and has produced over 600 published pieces (both creative and critical), along with six books, the latest of which is Bloody Ground, a collection of mystery stories set in Kentucky.  Hal and Charlie have also written several interactive mysteries that have been performed at state parks and other locations around the commonwealth.  Currently the two are working on a book on teaching as well as editing a collection of poems and fiction by young Kentucky authors.

Harry Brown holds an AB from Davidson College, an MA from Appalachian State University, and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. At EKU since 1970, he was named a Foundation Professor in 1995. In 1994, he became the first recipient of the Senior Fellowship at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, and he was a Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Harry’s poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Kansas Quarterly, Wind, Poem, The Fiddlehead, Eureka Literary Magazine, Ball State University Forum, and other journals. He co-edited God’s Plenty: Modern Kentucky Writers, and has published numerous poetry collections, including Ego’s Eye, Everything Is Its Opposite, Measuring Man, and Paint Lick Idyll.

Christine Delea is a widely published poet whose awards include the 2002 Albireo Chapbook Contest, the 2001 Editor’s Prize from Spoon River Poetry Review, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and an Academy of American Poets Award. Her first book, Ordinary Days in Ordinary Places, was published by Pudding House Press; her upcoming book, Moving the Language, will be published by Albireo Press in Horse Cave, KY, in June of 2003. Her poems have appeared in over 100 journals. Christine is originally from Long Island, New York. She received her BA from Marietta College in Ohio, her MA from Marshall University in West Virginia, and her Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota. She has taught Creative Writing in North Dakota, Oregon, and now as a professor at Eastern Kentucky University.  www.christinedelea.com

James Baker Hall was born in Lexington Kentucky in 1935. His BA is from the University of Kentucky and attended Stanford on a Stegner Fellowship for his MA in Literature. He. He lives outside of Lexington and is a Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. He has also taught at MIT (Cambridge, MA) and the University of Connecticut. He just stepped down from his post as Kentucky Poet Laureate. His many books include The Mother on the Other Side of the World, Praeder’s Letters, A Spring-Fed Pond, and Yates Paul, His Grand Flights, His Tootings.

Marie Manilla was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia.  In 1980 she received an MFA in Graphic Design from West Virginia University and she spent eight years as a Graphic Artist in Houston, Texas.  She returned to Huntington and received an MA in English from Marshall University in 1992.  She once again left her home state to pursue an MFA at The Iowa Writers' Workshop, which she completed in 1994.  Her short stories and plays have appeared in Mississippi Review, Yemassee Review, Echo Ink Review, Timber Creek Review, and others.  She received the Lawrence Foundation Award for best short story to appear in Prairie Schooner in 1997.  She also placed second in the 2002 Raymond Carver Short Story Competition sponsored by Humboldt State, and that story appeared in the Spring 2003 issue of Toyon.  In addition to short stories, she writers plays, screenplays, and novels.  She currently lives in Huntington with her husband and her dog.   

Charlie Sweet is a Foundation Professor of English at EKU, where he specializes in teaching creative writing.  A native of New Jersey and a graduate of Florida State University, he has over 650 publications.  With Hal Blythe, his collaborator for the past 29 years, he has written six books, his latest being Bloody Ground, a collection of Kentucky-centered short stories.  He is also a frequent contributor to writing magazines such as The Writer and Writer’s Digest, and his stories are often found in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.

To register for the workshop, you need to register for the EKU class 503 (undergraduate or no credit) or 703 (graduate) during the Summer Term.  However you do not need to be a college student to attend our conference!

Conference participants who are 65 and over may apply for O'Donnell Scholarships and have their tuition waived.

For more information, please contact Christine Delea at christine.delea@eku.edu or 859-622-3091

Christine Delea

Conference Director