WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY RECEIVES NEW JERSEY COUNCIL ON THE HUMANITIES GRANT FOR 2003 WRITER’S CONFERENCE

The English Department at William Paterson University in Wayne has been awarded $3,000 by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to support the department’s 2003 Spring Writer’s Conference.

The conference, slated for April 5, 2003, will feature the nationally renowned novelist Russell Banks, author of more than a dozen novels and short story collections including "Affliction" and "The Sweet Hereafter," both of which were made into feature films, and "Continental Drift," a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer Prize.

The event, coordinated by John Parras, a William Paterson associate professor of English, will also include a variety of workshops and readings in critical and creative writing and literature on topics such as poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, children’s literature, criticial writing and thinking and publishing, led by William Paterson University faculty and special guests. The conference is designed for professional writers and editors, secondary-level educators, graduate and undergraduate students, and the general public.

For additional information, contact Parras at 973-720-3067 or check the conference Web site at www.wpunj.edu/cohss/english/.

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11/26/02