Pre-Registration Deadline Extended for NCWN 2018 Fall Conference
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CHARLOTTE—The pre-registration deadline for the North Carolina Writers' Network 2018 Fall Conference has been extended until 11:59 pm on Sunday, October 28.
Fall Conference classes are first-come, first-served. While spaces remain in most sessions, spots are not guaranteed.
Register now to secure your seat November 2-4 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place.
By registering early, attendees save more than 50 percent off conference fees.
Fall Conference offers several new or new-ish programs in 2018.
"Shut Up and Write," sponsored by Freedom.to and led by NCWN trustee Michele T. Berger, allows attendees to sit quietly with other registrants and write for ninety minutes, a much-needed conference breather.
Michele also will host a launch party for National Novel Writing Month on Friday, following the Keynote Address and Booksigning by 2018 NC Literary Hall of Fame inductee Randall Kenan. Some light refreshments will be provided, but participants should also feel free to BYO.
Fall Conference offers a track for writers of stage and screen, including classes such as Ian Finley's "Dramatic Structure, or The Story of My Tattoo"; “'You Talking to Me?' How Less Really Can Mean More When Writing Dialogue" with Susan Rivers; "From the Page to the Stage" with Robert Inman; and "Creating Diverse Characters for the Stage, Page, and Screen" with Paula Martinac.
Saturday night's banquet also will feature an abbreviated staging of Ian Finley's new play Native, which explores the relationship and developing tensions between Paul Green and Richard Wright as they try to adapt Wright’s classic novel Native Son for the stage. This special performance will be followed by a panel discussion on the play’s themes, and how writers today still grapple with its questions, featuring Paul Green scholar Dr. Margaret Bauer, playwright Ian Finley, NC Poet Laureate and NC Literary Hall of Fame inductee Jaki Shelton Green, and Native cast members.
Of course, open mics, faculty readings, an exhibit hall packed with vendors, and all the regular, excellent program NCWN members have come to expect will still be on offer.
Register now: www.ncwriters.org.
From the Page to the Stage: Robert Inman
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CHARLOTTE—At the North Carolina Writers' Network 2018 Fall Conference, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Robert Inman will lead the session "From the Page to the Stage."
Fall Conference runs November 2-4, at the Hilton Charlotte University Place. Registration is open through October 26.
Robert Inman is a native of Elba, Alabama, where he began his writing career in junior high school with his hometown weekly newspaper. He left a thirty-one-year career in television journalism in 1996 to devote his full time to fiction writing. Inman’s latest stage play is Liberty Mountain, a drama about the settling of the Carolinas and the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain. It is staged every summer at the Joy Performance Center in Kings Mountain. He is the author of two musicals—Crossroads and The Christmas Bus: The Musical—for which he wrote book, lyrics, and music. His other stage plays are The Christmas Bus, Dairy Queen Days, Welcome to Mitford, A High Country Christmas Carol, and The Drama Club. He has written screenplays for six motion pictures for television, two of which have been “Hallmark Hall of Fame” presentations. His script for The Summer of Ben Tyler, a Hallmark production, won the Writers’ Guild of America Award as the best original television screenplay of 1997. His other Hallmark feature was Home Fires Burning, a 1989 adaptation of his novel.
This year, NCWN has been celebrating publishers based in North Carolina, so we asked Robert to answer the following prompt:
"Congratulations! You've inherited a large fortune, on the condition that you use it to start your own publishing house. What kind of books are you going to publish?"
Here's what Robert said:
"If I had had a large fortune to open a publishing house, I would publish first books by unknown authors and give them all the proceeds until the money ran out."
In the session "From the Page to the Stage," participants will take part in a lively discussion about the challenge of transforming a story meant for a single reader into one crafted for a larger visual audience. They'll discuss the particular “language” of stage and screen and examine techniques unique to successful stage and screen storytelling.
Fall Conference attracts hundreds of writers from around the country and provides a weekend full of activities that include lunch and dinner banquets with readings, keynotes, tracks in several genres, open mic sessions, and the opportunity for one-on-one manuscript critiques with editors or agents. Master Classes will be led by Judy Goldman (Creative Nonfiction), Maureen Ryan Griffin (Poetry), Randall Kenan (Fiction), who, as a 2018 inductee into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, also will give the Keynote Address.
The nonprofit North Carolina Writers’ Network is the state’s oldest and largest literary arts services organization devoted to all writers, in all genres, at all stages of development. For additional information, visit www.ncwriters.org.