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March 31, 2006
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William Paterson University To Hold Annual Writer’s Conference
Alison Lurie and Edward Hower, award-winning novelists, will appear as special guests at William Paterson University’s annual Spring Writer’s Conference on Saturday, April 22.
The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Atrium on campus. It is sponsored by the University’s English Department.
Exploring the theme “Life and Death,” the conference will feature morning and afternoon workshops. The sessions will be led by William Paterson faculty members and distinguished writers and editors of verse and prose. Concurrent panels will address topics such as writing from life, getting your work in print, poetry, playwriting, fiction and creative non-fiction. The conference fee is $40 for a full day of participation, which includes lunch.
Lurie, a professor of English at Cornell University, teaches writing, folklore and children’s literature. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for her novel Foreign Affairs. Other novels include The Last Resort (1998), Women and Ghosts (1994), The Truth About Lorin Jones, and The War Between the Tates. She has also published a study of the meaning of fashion, entitled The Language of Clothes, and a collection of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups.
Hower is the author of nine books, including the novels The New Life Hotel and A Garden of Demons, as well as The Pomegranate Princess, a volume of folktales he collected while on Fulbright grants in India. He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, and many other publications.
The conference offers professional development hours for New Jersey educators. John Parras, a William Paterson professor of English, is the coordinator of the conference. For additional information, contact Parras at 973-720-3067 or check the conference Web site at http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/writersconference.
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