Art and Craft: The Northwestern Summer Writers' Conference

August 9-11, 2007

Summer Session is pleased to announce the third annual Northwestern Summer Writers' Conference, a noncredit summer institute in writing and revising novels, poetry, short stories, and nonfiction for adult and young audiences. This four-day conference is tailored to new writers, established writers, and anyone seeking a fuller understanding of the craft - and business - of writing. Participants have the opportunity to select from a host of seminars, panels, workshops, and optional manuscript consultations, all designed to give participants new perspectives on their work in the supportive company of other writers. "Creative jumpstart" sessions focus on brainstorming, free writing, and experimentation and thus are useful to writers at all levels. Other workshops run concurrently and address a variety of genres so that participants may work in smaller groups with other writers who share their interests.(more info)