July 2004
Sunday, July 3 – Friday, July 9—Wildacres Mystery and Romance Workshop, North Carolina. Visit http://www.wildacres.com/
Tuesday, July 6 – Monday, July 26—The Magnolia Avenue branch of Pellissippi State Technical Community College will hold Writing Workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, screen writing, and song writing. Classes will be taught by experienced writers from The Knoxville Writers Guild. [ Read More ]
Friday, July 9 – Sunday, Julay 11—The Appalachian’s Writer’s Association Conference, Cumberland College, Williamsburg, KY. The Keynote speaker will be Ron Rash. Visit http://www.etsu.edu/english/judaculla/
Saturday, July 10 – Saturday, July 17—Wildacres Writer’s Workshop, North Carolina. Visit http://www.wildacres.com/.
Sunday, July 11 – Friday, July 23—Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC presents Words, Marks, Ink, Paper taught by Steve Miller, as part of the school’s summer sessions. Visit http://www.penland.org/classes/summer/books.html.
Tuesday, July 13 – Sunday, July 25—15th Annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Conference will provide workshops and craft lectures in fiction, poetry, and playwriting. Visit http://www.sewaneewriters.org/conf04.htm
Tuesday, July 20 – Tuesday, July 27—The Southern Appalachian Writers’ Cooperative (SAWC) will hold workshops at Willy’s Last Resort on Pine Mountain in Whitesburg, KY. Workshops will be lead by Scott Goebel, Dana Wildsmith, and Jim Webb. For more information contact Scott Goebel at scottgoebel@aol.com.
Thursday, July 22 – Sunday, July 25—The West Virginia Writers’ Workshop will be held at the West Virginia University Campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Featured faulty are: Peter Cameron, Gary Fincke, James Harms, Rebecca McClanahan, and Jane Mead. [ Read More ]
Saturday, July 25 – Friday, July 30—The 27th Annual Appalachian Writers Workshop, Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, KY. This event will feature workshops in the novel, the short story, poetry, children’s literature, memoirs, and other specific areas of interest to writers. [ Read More ]
Sunday, July 25 – Friday, July 30—The 2004 Augusta Summer Workshops will have a Creative Writing & Poetry workshop by Barbara Smith. The Elderhostel will have a workshop called Irish Traditions... From Ireland to Appalachia, in which one will learn about Irish history, poetry, songs, literature and the Gaelic language, through lectures, performances, and discussions. [ Read More ]
Friday, July 30 – Saturday, July 31—The 55th annual meeting of the North Carolina Writers Conference will be held on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowee. The opening reception and registration will be in downtown Sylva on Friday afternoon and evening at City Lights bookstore. Saturday's conference will be in WCU's new Student Center in Cullowhee, just four miles down the road from Sylva. [ Read More ]
Saturday, July 31 – Sunday, August 15—The 2004 Virginia Highlands Festival will be held in Abingdon, Virginia. [ Read More ]