The Eighth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference is dedicated to the memory of iconic novelist, three-time conference participant, and beloved friend William Gay. Please join us in celebrating the life and talents of one of today's literary geniuses in a special tribute during the conference on Thursday afternoon. To read remembrances of William from other novelists, poets, editors and teachers around the nation, please visit Chapter16.org.



Eighth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference
June 7 - 8, 2012
Historic Clarksville, Tennessee - Tennessee's Fifth Largest City



JOIN US FOR:

  • Two days of excellent writing workshops and presentations, including lunches
  • A banquet with keynote speaker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex S. Jones, with an authors' reception and signing
  • Free consultations with two literary agents for presentation attendees

Our presentations and workshops are valuable to writers and interesting to readers. This fun, affordable, and talent-laden conference is presented on the third floor of Austin Peay State University's Morgan University Center and at the Clarksville Country Club.


LEARN FROM:

  • Alex S. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, co-author of The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty, and current director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
  • Amanda Auchter, poet, founding editor of Pebble Lake Review and author of The Glass Crib
  • Tracy Barrett, young-adult writer and author of the award-winning Anna of Byzantium, King of Ithaka and Dark of the Moon
  • Debbie Carter, literary agent with Muse Literary Management in New York City
  • Marshall Chapman, critically-acclaimed musician, songwriter and author of Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller and They Came to Nashville
  • Peggy DeKay, authority on self-publishing and author of Self-Publishing for Virgins
  • Keven McQueen, author of true crime and mystery novels including Murder in Old Kentucky and The Axman Came From Hell and Other Southern True Crime Stories
  • Sena Jeter Naslund, New York Times bestselling author of Adam & Eve, Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette and Ahab's Wife
  • A. Scott Pearson, Vanderbilt University surgeon and author of the medical thriller Rupture and Public Anatomy
  • Alice Randall, author of The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, Rebel Yell and the forthcoming Ada's Rules
  • Chuck Sambuchino, editor of Writer's Digest's Guide to Literary Agents and author of How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack
  • Barbara Scott, literary agent with WordServe Literary Group in Colorado
  • Frederick Smock, poet and author of Blue Hour, Sonnets and Deer at Gethsemani: Ecologues
  • Marianne Walker, author of the book Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone with the Wind


PRESENTED BY:

  • Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council
    Ellen Kanervo, Executive Director
  • In partnership with Austin Peay State University
    Tim Hall, President


DEVELOPED BY:

  • Patricia Winn, Conference Chairman
  • Christopher Burawa, Conference Vice-Chairman
  • Kathy Higinbotham, Banquet Chairman
  • Katie Kennedy, Registrar
  • Clarksville Writers Conference Committee
    Patricia Winn, Chairman