2022 SPRING CONFERENCE
MHRA Building (Corner of Spring Garden and Forest Streets)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Saturday, April 23
The North Carolina Writers' Network and the MFA in Creative Writing Program at UNC-Greensboro bring you a full day of classes, workshops, conversations, and more.
This year’s Spring Conference again will be in UNCG’s MHRA Building, on the corner of Spring Garden and Forest Streets, and in Curry Auditorium next door, offering classes and discussions on the craft and business of writing and publishing.
PLEASE NOTE: All registrants, faculty, and exhibitors must provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 to attend the 2022 Spring Conference. We will follow or exceed all state and federal safety protocols in place at the time of the conference.
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FEES AND DEADLINES | SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE | MASTER CLASS | FULL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE WITH COURSES | FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Fees and Deadlines
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You can join the Network when you register, and pay the member rates plus the appropriate member dues:
$80 standard 1-year membership
$60 reduced membership (senior 65+, full-time student, writers under 30, writers with disabilities)
$140 2-year membership
$110 2-year reduced membership
Scholarships
A limited amount of scholarship aid is available to deserving writers who otherwise could not attend the 2022 Spring Conference. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please send a C.V. and a letter of interest to
In addition to our general scholarship aid, "More Seats" Scholarships are available to attend the Spring Conference thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor. More Seats Scholarships seek to add “more seats” to the literary table by encouraging beginning writers from underserved communities, especially writers from rural counties, writers of color, and LGBTQ+ writers. Selection criteria will focus on commitment to writing, rather than degrees or publications.
To apply, send a current CV—with contact information and a list of any work, education, publications, or other relevant literary experiences or achievements—and a Statement of Writing Intent of no more than 1,000 words to
For the first time, Elliott Bowles Screenwriting Scholarships also will be available to help aspiring screenwriters attend the Spring Conference. The Elliott Bowles Screenwriters Scholarships are open to applications from any North Carolina resident who has written an unproduced and unoptioned screenplay. For more information, please follow the link above, or e-mail
Cancellations
Cancellations must be made in writing and arrive at the Network office (via USPS or e-mail) by 4:00 pm, Thursday, April 14, for you to receive a refund, less 25 percent. Send request to
For Writers with Special Needs
The North Carolina Writers' Network strives to make our programs and services accessible to all writers, including those with special needs. If you require conference materials either in large print or in Braille, or if you require a sign-language interpreter, please register for the conference and submit your request to
Deadlines
- April 1: Deadline for all scholarship applications
- April 8: Deadline for Master Class registration (see guidelines)
- April 11: Deadline for special-needs requests
- April 14: Deadline to receive a refund for cancellation
- April 18: Deadline for registration
- April 23: Spring Conference in session
VENUE AND PARKING
The 2022 Spring Conference will be held in the Moore Humanities & Research Administration (MHRA) Building on the UNCG campus, 1111 Spring Garden St., Greensboro, NC, 27403, and in the Curry Auditorium next door. The MHRA Building is located at the corner of Spring Garden and Forest Streets.
Parking will be available for Spring Conference registrants in the Oakland Avenue Parking Deck, across Forest Street from the MHRA Building (behind Yum Yum Better Ice Cream and Old Town Draught House).
A map of the UNCG campus is available here.
Nearby Hotels
The Greensboro Convention & Visitors Bureau can help you find accommodations in the area. Please visit http://www.visitgreensboronc.com.
E-Packets
In an effort to save money, time, and resources, the Network will send to all 2022 Spring Conference registrants, exhibitors, and faculty an E-Packet prior to April 23. The E-Packet will contain all the usual conference packet materials in the form of a PDF that registrants can print or download to a device to bring with them to the conference.
Name tags, personalized schedules, and copies of the Schedule-at-a-Glance will still be available at the registration table the day of the conference.
Traditional printed packets will not be available at this conference.
Schedule-at-a-Glance
Schedules subject to change
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ON-SITE CONFERENCE
| Saturday, April 23 | |
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| 8:00-9:00am | Registration Open (MHRA Lobby) |
| 8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Exhibit Tables and Book Sales Open (MHRA Lobby) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Keynote Address by Carole Boston Weatherford (Curry Auditorium) |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Session I
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| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch Under UNCG’s current COVID-19 guidelines, we will not be able to offer Lunch with an Author or any food or beverage at the on-site Spring Conference. If their guidelines change in time, we will give registrants an opportunity to order some sort of on-site lunch. Either way, we will provide all registrants with a list of quick and convenient lunch options within walking distance of the MHRA Building. |
| 1:15-2:15 pm | Faculty Readings |
| 2:30-4:00 pm |
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| 4:30-5:30pm |
Open Mic Readings - Sign up at registration table |
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ONLINE CONFERENCE
| Saturday, April 23 | |
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| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Keynote Address by Carole Boston Weatherford (Livestreamed from UNCG) |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
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| 1:15-2:15 pm | Faculty Readings (Livestreamed from UNCG) |
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| 4:30-5:30pm |
Online Open Mic I—Online Only |
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Master Class
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Master Classes offer advanced writers a chance to delve more deeply into a particular genre. Each Master Class will take place over the course of Sessions I and II, and will be limited to the first 10 qualified registrants.
While publication credits are not required, Master Class participants should be experienced writers, dedicated to their craft. Applications will be reviewed, and qualified registrants admitted, on a rolling basis, until the Master Class if full or the deadline of Friday, April 8, whichever comes first.
Please submit your current CV, along with the required manuscript (see each Master Class’s course description, below, for its manuscript requirements), to
When you register for the Spring Conference, if applying for a Master Class, please choose another workshop as a back-up for each session, in case you are not admitted to the Master Class. Application to a Master Class requires a non-refundable $20 processing fee, in addition to the Spring Conference registration fee. If registering for the conference online or by phone, you can pay this processing fee with a VISA, MasterCard, or Discover. If registering by mail, you must include a separate check for $20.
Full Conference Schedule with Course Descriptions
ON-SITE CONFERENCE
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8:00–9:00 am Registration Open (MHRA Lobby)
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Exhibits and Book Sales Open (MHRA Lobby)
9:00 am–10:00 am Keynote Address by Carole Boston Weatherford
Hailed by Huffington Post as a “master of picture book nonfiction,” Carole Boston Weatherford is a Newberry Honor author, New York Times bestseller, and two-time NAACP Image Award winner. Since her 1995 debut, she has published 50-plus books including these Caldecott Honor winners: Freedom in Congo Square, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Six of her books have won Coretta Scott King Awards or Honors. A graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at UNC Greensboro, Weatherford was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2020.
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Session I
Creative Nonfiction Master Class: Writing with Urgency with Belle Boggs**Closed**
Many writing teachers counsel us to save experiences we’re too close to for later—why not wait until you can get some distance and perspective? (I have given this advice myself!) But my experience writing about urgent personal and political issues has also taught me that developing a writing practice around contemporaneous note-taking, research, journaling, and interviews can be a way of producing work that feels urgent and alive. This nonfiction workshop will balance workshop discussion of short pieces with in-class planning for how to energize and sustain a longer nonfiction project. Our focus will be on using observation, research, interviews, and experience to create immersive work that is relevant and necessary.
Please submit up to 1,500 sequential words from a single work, along with your current CV in a separate attachment, on the same day that you register for the conference. Submissions should be saved in an MS Word document, using double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman font, with numbered pages, and sent as an attachment to
Each registrant should be ready to handle the intensive instruction and atmosphere of the Master Class.
Fiction Master Class: Cause-and-Effect in Fiction with Derek Palacio**Closed**
This course will explore cause-and-effect dynamics within plot development. Through critique of student work and analysis of a few, short published texts, we will examine how cause-and-effect functions in narrative. We will investigate how to build plots that derive from interesting and revealing character choices, and we will seek to gain a better understanding of why cause-and-effect, when judiciously employed, can lead to more complex yet cohesive narrative structures.
Please submit up to 1,500 sequential words from a single work, along with your current CV in a separate attachment, on the same day that you register for the conference. Submissions should be saved in an MS Word document, using double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman font, with numbered pages, and sent as an attachment to
Each registrant should be ready to handle the intensive instruction and atmosphere of the Master Class.
Poetry Master Class: River of Time and Art with Laura Mullen**Closed**
We feel ourselves to float now, precariously, uncertainly, in a river of time that seems rapid, forceful, and unruly—it’s all too easy to fear we’ll be thrown out of the boat and submerged. “Poetry,” writes Joy Harjo in her memoir Poet Warrior, “is a tool to navigate transformation.” What better way to move through these straits than with(in) art? This workshop will be generative, there will be exercises and prompts, productive of new poetry, and then (looking at previous work) will also offer strategies for revision, grounded in a recognition of your singular and special powers, with a focus on self-awareness and self-acceptance, as we learn to go with the creative flow and move fearlessly toward the wide open.
Please submit three poems, totaling no more than five pages, on the same day that you register for the conference, along with your current CV in a separate attachment. Poems should be saved in a single MS Word document, using single-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font, and sent as an attachment to
Each registrant should be ready to handle the intensive instruction and atmosphere of the Master Class.
Query an Agent About Querying Agents with Jamie Chambliss
If you have questions about finding and working with an agent—how to narrow down your search to likely fits, how to write and send a query, and what to expect when an agent says 'yes'—then this class gives you 90 minutes to ask them. Beginning with an intensive on how to write an effective query, the class then will move into an open Q&A on contemporary agenting and publishing.
Public, Private, and Poetic Place with Charmaine Cadeau
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway stated, “I’ve always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re going—in a sense it’s three tenses in one.” This generative writing workshop focuses on exploring our literal and conceptual worlds. How might a poem map a geographical place? A memory? A body? Using exercises that play with the idea of mapping, participants will draft new work that explores real and imagined places.
The Speaking Words: On Writing Dialogue in Fiction with Travis Mulhauser
This session will provide concrete strategies for sharpening your dialogue and strengthening its impact on your fiction. We will look at examples from masters like Elmore Leonard and Charles Portis, while also looking at writers who use dialogue more sparingly, but to equally profound effect. There are elements of good dialogue that cannot be taught—this session will deal with the parts that can be. This is recommended for writers who consider dialogue a particular strength, and writers who consider it a weakness. Good dialogue is about rhythm and word choice and knowing what needs to be said by your characters, but it is also about knowing what not to say. Writers will leave this class with a clearer sense of how they want to use dialogue in their fiction, and with the tools to apply it to their work.
Look Closer: Writing about Objects (all genres) with Julia Ridley Smith
Objects—whether everyday things, family heirlooms, or exquisite works of art—offer rich material for storytelling. The writer Italo Calvino put it this way: “The moment an object appears in a narrative, it is charged with a special force and becomes like the pole of a magnetic field, a knot in the network of invisible relationships. . . We might even say that in a narrative any object is always magic.”
In this multi-genre class, we’ll use familiar objects as a starting point for generating new writing. We’ll read and discuss literature that illuminates our material world, and we’ll consider the range of reactions, memories, stories, and cultural associations objects evoke for us. Creating vivid imagery often begins with paying close attention to what we see, so we'll practice looking together—examining a few specific objects and writing about them. Finally, you’ll have the opportunity to write about an object that’s personally significant to you.
Crafting Characters Round and Flat for the Screen with Mary M. Dalton
Context is everything. Sometimes characters need to change and grow, but other times characters serve a different purpose, such as pushing up against the arc of another character. Using Callie Khouri’s Oscar-winning and iconic screenplay Thelma & Louise as a case study, this class will examine character as a component of classical narrative structure and explore the limits of that paradigm. The session will include exercises for identifying the right type of character—round or flat—for your story and also provide tools for crafting that character. Reading the screenplay Thelma & Louise, which is widely available online, and seeing the movie in advance would be helpful but not necessary. Syd Field also has a useful analysis of the script in his book Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay.
12:00–1:00 pm Lunch
Under UNCG’s current COVID-19 guidelines, we will not be able to offer Lunch with an Author or any food or beverage at the on-site Spring Conference. If their guidelines change in time, we will give registrants an opportunity to order some sort of on-site lunch. Either way, we will provide all registrants with a list of quick and convenient lunch options within walking distance of the MHRA Building.
1:15–2:15 pm Faculty Readings
2:30–4:00 pm Session II
Creative Nonfiction Master Class: Writing with Urgency with Belle Boggs**Closed**
Continued; see above for description.
Fiction Master Class with Derek Palacio **Closed**
Continued; see above for description.
Poetry Master Class: River of Time and Art with Laura Mullen **Closed**
Continued; see above for description.
Presenting Your Book with Charlie Lovett
Whether at a book festival, bookstore, school, or community event book readings are not what they used to be. The public wants more than just an author who stands and reads from their book. Best-selling novelist and playwright Charlie Lovett draws on his background in theatre to deliver what audiences want at author events—whether in person or virtual. In this class he will guide you through techniques you can use to up your game when discussing your work in public.
Talking the Talk (poetry) with Stuart Dischell
This class, open to poets at all levels of skill and experience, will focus on the use of dialogue as a strategic device in poetry.
Manifesting Thisness in Fiction with Caleb Johnson
The critic James Wood writes, “In life, as in literature, we navigate via the stars of detail.” Wood uses the term “thisness” to define any detail that centers our attention with its concretion. In this class we will use excerpts from Wood’s How Fiction Works and Brad Watson’s novel Miss Jane to examine why details matter in fiction. Using these examples as guides, we will mine our own memories to write a fictional scene that possesses thisness via details that are concrete, precise, and evocative.
The Group: How to Form Your Own Thriving Writing Workshop with Duncan Murrell
In a constantly fluctuating publishing economy, in which it sometimes appears that you have to pay to play, many writers are hiring editors to give them the kind of feedback that they might have gotten for free as a member of a writing workshop or writing group. But we all have stories of private writing workshops and groups that began with great intentions but then just kind of petered out—out of disorganization, or personal conflict, or missed deadlines, or just general boredom. In this panel we’ll talk about how to form a writing community and start a workshop that works and is useful: finding your people, developing a purpose for your group or workshop, creating a structure and a set of rules for accountability, talking about the work of others in ways that are both honest and helpful, growing a sense of community, and knowing when it’s time to take your work to the next level.
Is This Idea a Screenplay? with Joy Goodwin
In this workshop, we'll consider how to decide whether a particular story is a feature-length or series-length idea—or, perhaps, neither. Once that decision is made, what are the next steps in developing and realizing the idea?
4:30–5:30 pm Open Mic Readings I and II
Sign up at the conference registration table
Sign up at the conference registration table if you would like to share your work. Only twenty reading slots, of five minutes each, will be available, first-come, first-served.
5:30–6:30 pm Slush Pile Live!
Slush Pile Live! offers both poetry and prose in two rooms so that more attendees have a chance to receive feedback on their writing. Have you ever wondered what goes through an editor's mind as he or she reads through a stack of unsolicited submissions? Here's your chance to find out.
Beginning at 4:00 pm, attendees may drop off either 300 words of prose or one page of poetry in the room of their choice (location TBD). The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript, but the genre should.
Then, at 5:30 pm, a panel of editors will listen to the submissions being read out loud and raise their hand when they hear something that would make them stop reading if the piece were being submitted to their publication. The editors will discuss what they did and did not like about the sample, offering constructive feedback on the manuscript itself and the submission process. All anonymous—all live! (Authors can reveal themselves at the end, but only if they want to.)
Submissions should be double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font. No names should appear on the submissions.
Full Conference Schedule with Course Descriptions
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9:00 am–10:00 am Keynote Address by Carole Boston Weatherford (Livestreamed from UNCG )
Hailed by Huffington Post as a “master of picture book nonfiction,” Carole Boston Weatherford is a Newberry Honor author, New York Times bestseller, and two-time NAACP Image Award winner. Since her 1995 debut, she has published 50-plus books including these Caldecott Honor winners: Freedom in Congo Square, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Six of her books have won Coretta Scott King Awards or Honors. A graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at UNC Greensboro, Weatherford was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2020.
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Session I
In Flux(us) (all genres) with Steven Sherrill—Online Only
“I’m fleshing out the idea. For now, my plan is to focus on process over product, and the inherent range of potential within almost every idea.”
Hitting a Home Run: Pitching to & Getting Published in Magazines with Rachel Priest—Online Only
So you’ve finally finished the story draft you’ve been working on for months. Or you recently met a person or have been to a place you think the world should know about and want to tell their story. You’ve found a few publications that you think would be a good fit for your work, but now you’re wondering what to do next.
If you’ve ever wanted to get your writing published in a magazine but didn’t know where to start or what to expect, this class is for you. This 90-minute session will focus on how and where to pitch your stories, what to expect if your story gets picked up, and what to do if your piece isn’t accepted.
Online Picnic hosted by Michele T. Berger—Online Only
1:15–2:15 pm Faculty Readings (Livestreamed from UNCG )
2:30–4:00 pm Session II
The Sound of Prose with Maegan Poland—Online Only
In The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein writes about her dog and how “listening to the rhythm of his water drinking made her recognize the difference between sentences and paragraphs, that paragraphs are emotional and that sentences are not.” What might make a paragraph emotional? How do we find and enhance the energy of a sentence or a paragraph? How can syntax and sound intensify a description or an internal monologue? We will close-read passages from stylistically distinct authors and consider the elements and patterns that captivate us.
What Publishers Really Want from Authors: Building an Audience Before Your First Book Comes Out with Meg Reid—Online Only
You likely worked for years to write your book and get it accepted by a publisher. Now what? Most authors are more comfortable writing their book than marketing it. This class will focus on what publishers want to see authors do in the months before publication to help get the word out. Whether you’re an author with a traditional large publisher or smaller indie press or you’re self-publishing and responsible for all your own publicity, this workshop will tell you how to work in tandem with your publisher to support your book and lay the foundation for a successful book release.
4:30–5:30 pm Open Mic Readings I and II—Online Only
5:30–6:30 pm Slush Pile Live! (Livestreamed from UNCG)
A panel of editors will listen to short submissions being read out loud and raise their hand when they hear something that would make them stop reading if the piece were being submitted to their publication. The editors will discuss what they did and did not like about the sample, offering constructive feedback on the manuscript itself and the submission process. All anonymous—all live!
Faculty Biographies
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 Jamie Chambliss is an agent with Folio Literary Management. Her clients include Lara Prescott, Lauren Hough, Tom Vitale, and Rachel Rodgers. Prior to joining Folio, she was with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, working on both fiction and nonfiction and in editorial and marketing. She’s drawn to literary and book club fiction, and narrative nonfiction, especially dealing with food, pop culture, the quirks of human nature, the stories within the worlds of science and sports, and the forgotten corners of history. Prior to book publishing, she was a magazine journalist, covering, among other things, books, the arts, and sports narratives. She’s a graduate of Wake Forest University and has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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 Mary M. Dalton is Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University where she teaches courses focusing on critical media studies and screenwriting. Her scholarly publications include articles, book chapters, and books, and her documentaries have been screened at various festivals, museums, and on public television. Over the years, she has taught screenwriting to a number of students who populate writers’ rooms on shows you may have seen and whose screenwriting credits appear on films viewed at the theater or streaming at home. She delights in their accomplishments. |
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 Stuart Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road (Viking), a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues (Penguin), Dig Safe (Penguin), Backwards Days (Penguin), Standing on Z (Unicorn), Children with Enemies (Chicago), and the forthcoming The Lookout Man (Chicago). A recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation. and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he is the Class of 1952 Excellence Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. |
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 Charlie Lovett is The New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale, Escaping Dreamland, and other novels. He is the host of the podcast Inside the Writer's Studio and a playwright whose plays for children have been seen in over 5,000 productions worldwide. Charlie is the former president of Bookmarks and has had the chance there and at book festivals around the country, and in the UK, to see every kind of author presentation you can imagine. He brings his background in theatre to his own presentations, which he has given at bookstores, schools, and festivals for more than twenty-five years. |
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 Travis Mulhauser was born and raised in Northern Michigan. His novel, Sweetgirl (Ecco/Harper Collins) was long-listed for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, was a Michigan Notable Book Award winner in 2017, an Indie Next Pick, and named one of Ploughshares Best Books of the New Year. Sweetgirl has also been published in France, Germany, Brazil, The Netherlands, and the UK. Travis is also the author of Greetings from Cutler County: A Novella and Stories, and received his MFA in Fiction from UNC-Greensboro. He is also a proud graduate of North Central Michigan College and Central Michigan University. He lives currently in Durham with his wife and two children. |
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 Laura Mullen is the author of eight books; recognitions for her poetry include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. Recent poems have appeared in Fence, Together in a Sudden Strangeness, and Bettering American Poetry. Her translation of Veronique Pittolo's Hero was published by Black Square Editions, and her translation of work by Stephanie Chaillou has just appeared in Interim. A collection of poems is forthcoming from Solid Objects Press in 2023. She teaches at Wake Forest University. |
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 Duncan Murrell has been in publishing for more than twenty-five years in a variety of roles: book editor, writer, author, publisher, and teacher. He is the founder (with fellow Algonquin Books alum Chuck Adams) of CraftBook Editorial. During his career he’s edited New York Times bestsellers for Algonquin Books, Warner Books, Grand Central, and Thomas Nelson. He directed the writing program at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, where he taught creative nonfiction and documentary writing courses, and he has also spent a semester as the visiting writer in UNC Wilmington’s Department of Creative Writing. He is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and The Oxford American magazine, and has an MFA in fiction from Bennington College and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. |
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 Rachel Priest is the assistant editor at The Bitter Southerner, an online and print publication focused on moving the South forward through great storytelling about the people, places, and movements in the region. She grew up in Minnesota but graduated from the University of Georgia with degrees in journalism and history. Prior to her work at The Bitter Southerner, she was a writer and editor at The Red & Black’s culture desk and wrote long-form features for Ampersand magazine. Her stories focusing on transracial adoption and the Asian American experience can be found at Rewire and The Bitter Southerner. She currently lives in Atlanta. |
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 Meg Reid is a book designer and writer living in South Carolina. She is the Director of Hub City Press in Spartanburg, SC, where she finds and champions exciting new voices from the American South. An editor and book designer, her essays have appeared online in outlets like DIAGRAM, Oxford American, and The Rumpus. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from UNC-Wilmington, where she served as Assistant Editor of the literary magazine, Ecotone, and worked for the literary imprint Lookout Books. She also writes about all areas of design. |
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 Carole Boston Weatherford, Baltimore-born and raised, composed her first poem in first grade and dictated the verse to her mother on the ride home from school. Her father, a high school printing teacher, printed some of her early poems on index cards Since her literary debut with Juneteenth Jamboree in 1995, Carole’s books have received three Caldecott Honors, two NAACP Image Awards, an SCBWI Golden Kite Award, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor and many other honors. For career achievements, Carole received the Ragan-Rubin Award from North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Literature Award, among the state’s highest civilian honors. She holds an M.A. in publications design from University of Baltimore and an M.F.A. in creative writing from University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is a Professor of English at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. |
The 2022 Spring Conference is made possible with support from The MFA in Creative Writing Department at UNC-Greensboro; Lynda Chambers; Regal House Publishing; Written Word Media; and the North Carolina Arts Council.
