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The 5th Annual Columbus State Writers Conference and Workshop |
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April 25 - 26, 2008 |
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Conference fee $60 ($20 for students with ID) |
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Our fifth annual writers conference has a timely yet timeless theme -- Reality Writing: From Worlds to Words.
In our global village where news can travel instantly and anyone can be a "citizen reporter," it's important to stop and examine the modes, methods, and mechanisms in the 21st century writer's toolbox. This year's conference will give writers the opportunity to experiment with these tools and put them to work.
Here you'll find information about our Friday evening keynote speaker, Sonia Shah, and a list of the workshops that will be offered during the Saturday sessions. For more information, please email janderso@cscc.edu. To register for the conference, simply complete and send our printer-friendly registration form.
Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and critically acclaimed author whose writing on human rights, medicine, and politics has appeared in a range of publications. Her 2006 drug industry exposé, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients (New Press), has been hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a tautly argued study ... a trenchant exposé ... meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence," and by author John Le Carré as "an act of courage." She also authored the 2004 book Crude: The Story of Oil (Seven Stories), and is currently working on a book on the history and politics of malaria. Shah's 1997 collection, Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire, continues to be required reading at colleges and universities across the country. Born in New York City to Indian immigrants, Shah shuttled between the northeastern United States, where her parents practice medicine, and Mumbai and Bangalore, India, where her extended working-class family lived, developing a life-long interest in inequality between and within societies. She holds a BA in journalism, philosophy, and neuroscience from Oberlin College. Schedule of events Friday, April 25
Saturday, April 26
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Workshops Agents and marketing Selling Yourself: A Writer's Guide to the Marketplace Working with Agents and Publishers Fiction Capture a Character's Unique Voice: Lessons from a Speechwriter Destinations: Locating Space and Place in Our Writing Distill, Condense, Tighten: The Art of Flash Fiction Finding the Truth in Fiction: Research for Credibility Talking the Talk: Dialect as Character Nonfiction Community-based Journalism: Muck-raking and Progressive Social Change Memoir: A Channel to Our Authentic Writing Voice Narrative Reporting: Making Sense(s) of It All New Journalism in Cyberspace: Empowered Writers and Readers Sports Writing To Freelance or Not to Freelance? That is the Question Playwriting Give the Actors What They Want: Writing Dialogue for Live Theatre Poetry Dead or Alive?: Communicating the Poem to a Live Audience Metrical Poetry: Form in Fifteen Minutes Self-Editing: The Art & Science of Putting a Red Pen to Your Own
Poetry The Sounds of Sylvia The Way I See It: Making Poems from Pictures Where the Poem Lives: Identifying the Life of the Poem Screenwriting From Sundance to the Silver Screen Turning Reality into a Genre Writing a Spec Script for Real Crime Television Speechwriting Five Do-or-Die Lessons of Speechwriting
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