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Published on: 2/1/2008
Last Visited: 7/31/2008
Poet Will Greenway will be the keynote speaker.
The workshop will include sessions about short story writing, culinary journalism, publishing, travel journaling, poetry writing and memoir writing.
The workshop runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and is open to anyone interested in writing.The $30 registration fee covers the workshop, a continental breakfast and a light lunch.
The workshop allows writers and aspiring writers to meet published authors and to participate in two of the concurrent sessions, a panel discussion with the presenting authors, and the luncheon with Greenway.
Keynote speaker Greenway has won the Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award, the Larry Levis Editors' Prize from Missouri Review, the Open Voice Poetry Award from The Writer's Voice, the state Street Press Chapbook Competition and an Academy of American Poets Prize.Greenway's ninth full-length collection Everywhere at Once is forthcoming from The University of Akron Press Poetry Series, which also published Ascending Order, winner of the 2004 Ohioana Poetry Book of the Year Award.Greenway is currently Distinguished Professor of English at Youngstown State University.