Discover the Power of Writing

With Powerful Writers

2-Week Workshop! 3 Hours Credit!

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL HIGHLAND SUMMER CONFERENCE:

Appalachian Writing and Culture

We invite you to join well known guest authors for a two-week intensive workshop in creative and expository writing.

¨ Earn three hours credit in English 490/590 (undergraduate or graduate)

¨ Spend afternoons in class, June 6-17, 2005, 1:30-4:30, Monday - Friday

¨ Enjoy readings by four publishing authors and receptions for them, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7:30-9:30 P.M.

¨ Profit from consultations with guest authors and critiques from the class

¨ Join our field trips to Selu Conservancy and Carter Fold

¨ Build a portfolio of writing

The 2005 Highland Summer Conference Features:

DAVID HUDDLE DIANE FISHER

June 6-June 10, 2005 June 13-June 17, 2005

Author of Fifteen books of Fiction, Author of Three Books of Poetry,

Poetry, and Essays, including including Kettle Bottom, One of

Grayscale, La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl, Everything, Recipe for Blackberry

The High Spirits, The Story of a Million Years, Cake

Summer Lake, and Tenorman

Evening Readings:

June 7: David Huddle June 14: Diane Fisher

June 9: Gretchen Moran Laskas June 16: Isabel Zuber

The Midwife’s Tale (Novel) Salt (Novel)

For additional information, contact Dr. Grace Toney Edwards or JoAnn Aust Asbury, Appalachian Regional Studies Center, Box 7014, Radford University, Radford, VA 24142.

Call 540-831-5366 or 540-831-6152.

Email jasbury@radford.edu or gedwards@radford.edu