Delaware Literary Connection

The Delaware Literary Connection (DLC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving writers in the Delaware area and promoting the literary arts. We do this through our workshops, readings, newsletters, contests and conferences, and through strong affiliations with academic institutions and other regional literary organizations. We are encoura... ged by the Delaware Heritage Commission and the Delaware Division of the Arts. DLC members include poets, novelists, short story writers, essayists, journalists, playwrights, video producers and those who just enjoy writing and want exposure to it. The DLC encourages a strong sense of community among those interested in the literary arts and strives to promote creative writing throughout the First State. The DLC was established in 1993 and has a 20+ year history of offering members lively and interesting conferences, readings and workshops. Authors and educators appearing at DLC events have included: Mark Bowden, author of the non-fiction bestseller Black Hawk Down, which was nominated for a National Book Award Patsy Sims, director of the MFA program at Goucher College and author of The Klan, Cleveland Benjamin's Dead and Can Somebody Shout Amen! Elise Juska, whose fourth novel, The Blessings, was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series and included on the Philadelphia Inquirer's 2014 Best Books List, is the director of the creative writing program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and recipient of the 2014 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching Julianna Baggott, novelist, poet, essayist and associate professor of the Florida State University Creative Writing Program, whose Pure Triology novels have been optioned by Fox 2000 Gregory Frost, science fiction and fantasy novelist, short story writer (The Attack of the Jazz Giants and Other Stories) and essayist, directs fiction writing workshops at Swarthmore College Jeanne Murray Walker, author of Helping the Morning and The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through ...Read More