Sixth Annual Clarksville Writers' Conference
July 28 - 31, 2010
Historic Clarksville, Tennessee - Tennessee's Fifth Largest City



JOIN US FOR:

  • Two days of excellent writing workshops and presentations, including two lunches with an author speaking
  • A banquet with keynote speaker Alice Randall
  • A new two-day Architectural Heritage Tour
  • Consultations with literary agent Gordon Warnock, available for free to conference presentation participants

Our presentations and workshops are valuable to writers and interesting to readers. This fun, affordable, and talent-laden conference is presented at Austin Peay State University and the Clarksville Country Club.


LEARN FROM:

  • Alice Randall, Vanderbilt University Writer-In-Residence, award-winning songwriter and author of Rebel Yell and The Wind Done Gone
  • Darnell Arnoult, author of the Southern novel Sufficient Grace and the poetry collection What Travels With Us
  • Blas Falconer, poet, creative writing teacher and author of The Perfect Hour and A Question of Gravity and Light
  • Beth Ann Fennelly, award-winning poet, nonfiction writer and author of Unmentionables, Tender Hooks and Open House
  • Matthew Gavin Frank, poet, creative nonfiction writer and author of Sagittarius Agitprop and the forthcoming Sweat and Venom
  • Tom Franklin, author of the award-winning short story collection Poachers and the novels Hell at the Breech and Smonk
  • William Gay, Southern Gothic novelist, short story writer and author of Twilight, Provinces of Night and The Long Home
  • Fenton Johnson, author of the novels Crossing the River and Scissors, Paper, Rock and the memoirs Geography of the Heart and Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey among Christian and Buddhist Monks
  • Rheta Grimsley Johnson, journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the memoirs Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana and Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming
  • John McDonald, playwright and founding artistic director of the Roxy Regional Theatre whose stage adaptations include Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • A. Scott Pearson, Vanderbilt University surgeon and author of the medical thriller Rupture, set in Memphis
  • David James Poissant, award-winning short story writer and novelist whose work has appeared in Playboy and The Chicago Tribune, among others
  • Chuck Sambuchino, editor of Guide to Literary Agents and Writer's Digest Books' Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript
  • Robert Love Taylor, author of the Appalachian-flavored novel Blind Singer Joe's Blues and The Lost Sister, winner of the Oklahoma book award
  • Gordon Warnock, literary agent with Sacramento-based Andrea Hurst & Associates Literary Management
  • Afaa Michael Weaver, poet, short story writer, translator and author of The Plum Flower Dance and Kama i'reeh (Like the Wind)
  • Howard Winn, professor emeritus of history at Austin Peay State University and co-author of A History of Austin Peay State University, 1806-2001 and Clarksville Tennessee in the Civil War: A Chronology


DEVELOPED BY:

  • Christopher Burawa, Conference Chairman
  • Patricia Winn, Conference Creator and Consultant
  • Joshua Wright and Micki Daugherty, Tour Co-Chairmen
  • Inga Filippo, Banquet Chairman
  • Katie Kennedy, Registrar


PRESENTED BY:

  • Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council
    Ellen Kanervo, Board Chair