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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