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Seventh Annual Clarksville Writers' Conference
July 14 - 15, 2011
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 William R. Ferris
- Consultations with literary agents Gordon Warnock and Lindsey Clemons, 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:
- William R. Ferris, co-editor of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, chairman emeritus of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and author or editor of over ten books including Local Color and Images of the South: Visits with Eudora Welty and Walker Evans
- Darnell Arnoult, author of the Southern novel Sufficient Grace and the poetry collection What Travels With Us
- Sarah Blackman, poet, fiction writer and author of the fiction chapbook Such a Thing as America
- Lindsey Clemons, literary agent with San Francisco-based Larsen Pomada Literary Agents
- 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
- 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
- Amy Greene, author of the novel Bloodroot and the forthcoming Long Man
- 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
- David James Poissant, award-winning short story writer and novelist whose work has appeared in Playboy and The Chicago Tribune, among others
- Stephanie Pruitt, award-winning poet, arts educator and author of I Am: A Poetic Journey Towards Self Definition
- John Pursley III, author of If You Have Ghosts, winner of the Zone 3 First Book Award for Poetry, and creative writing instructor at Clemson University
- Chuck Sambuchino, editor of Guide to Literary Agents and Writer's Digest Books' Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript
- Gordon Warnock, literary agent with Sacramento-based Andrea Hurst & Associates Literary Management
- Meredith Sue Willis, author of Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel and a book of literary Appalachian stories, Out of the Mountains
- Amy Wright, nonfiction editor of Zone 3 Press at Austin Peay State University and author of the chapbooks There Are No New Ways To Kill A Man and Farm
PRESENTED BY:
- Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council
Ellen Kanervo, Executive Director
- Christopher Burawa, Conference Co-Chairman
- Patricia Winn, Conference Creator and Co-Chairman
- Inga Filippo, Banquet Chairman
- Katie Kennedy, Registrar
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