[NIFL-WOMENLIT:474] International Women's Writing Guild's Summer Conference

From: Daphne Greenberg (ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 17:08:37 EST


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 The International Women's Writing Guild presents the 23rd annual summer conference.  The brochure states:
"The overall value of this conference is the creation of an atmosphere which makes you want to stretch as a writer, as a woman, as person.  To celebrate the feeling of being alive in the company of kindred spirits."
Approximately 70 workshops will be held each day.
It is a 7 day conference week: August 11-August 18 with a retreat weekend following the conference: August 18-20.  The conference will be in Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, NY.
Some examples of sessions:
Family and Place: Translating Land-Based Memory into Art.
WordPlay and Wonderment: For the love of language.
Hidden Treasures: Finding intriguing subjects and other gems to write about in your own backyard.
Healing, Grief and Loss through the Writers Voices
The Medicine Woman in every Writer
Ethnography: How to collect it, record it, and write about it
Sacred Dance
For more information call: 212-737-7536

Daphne Greenberg
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
Georgia State University
University Plaza
Atlanta, GA 30303-3083
Fax: 404-651-1415
Ph: 404-651-0400
E-mail: alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu



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