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The Ninth National Black Writers Conference
Online Registration (ended March 21st 2008)

Onsite Registration Available

The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College Celebrates The Ninth National Black Writers Conference: Black Writers: Reading & Writing to Transform Their Lives & the World

Friday, March 28, 2008 - Sunday, March 30, 2008

The Ninth National Black Writers Conference: Black Writers: Reading and Writing to Transform Their Lives and the World will offer panel discussions, readings, workshops and conversations to focus on the ways in which black writers use literature to transform their lives and the larger global community. Inspired in 1986 by the late John Oliver Killens, the National Black Writers Conference was convened to bring together writers, critics, book-sellers, book reviewers, and the general public to discuss issues affecting black writers. Since 1986 the National Black Writers Conferences at Medgar Evers College have attracted a wide range of writers and scholars from the African diaspora.

Review the Conference Schedule

Read the January 12, 2008 Press Release

For more information, please call 718.270.4811 or visit the Center for Black Literature's Website http://www.mec.cuny.edu/nbwc

 

Online Registration
Online Registration Ended March 21st 2008
On Site Registration Available Day of the Event

Review Conference Schedule

 
General Admission - 3 Days / FULL
$60.00
(on site registration is $75)
 
General Admission - 3 Days / FULL + Book Meditations and Ascension
$73.00
(Book is discounted 33% and will be given to you on site)
 
General Admission - 3 Days / FULL (Student / Faculty / Senior Rate)
$30.00
 
General Admission - 3 Day / FULL (Group Rate - 10 people Minimum)
$50.00/ person
 
General Admission - 1 Day / FULL
$30.00
 
General Admission - 1 Day / FULL (Student / Faculty / Senior Rate)
$15.00
 
Saturday Reception -  One Admission Rate
$75.00
($55 is tax deductible)
 
 
Talkshops (One)
$25.00
 
Talkshops (Two)
$40.00
 
Talkshops: (please indicate your selections during payment)
 
SUNDAY MARCH 30, 2008

10AM -11:30 AM
� Publishing in Literary Magazines
� Poetry
� Dramatic Writing

12:00 PM � 1:30 PM
� Fiction
� Creative Non Fiction (Memoir)
� Book Proposals

 
 

 

Meditations and Ascension: Black Writers on Writing
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Register on-line for The 9th National Black Writers Conference (General Admission - 3 Days / FULL + Book) and receive book, during the conference, at a 33% discount

by Brenda M. Greene (Editor), Fred Beauford (Editor)

Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Third World Press (May 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0883782960
ISBN-13: 978-0883782965

Book Description
Representing conversations from the Eighth National Black Writers Conference in 2006, this collection provides in-depth meditations and analyses of literature by black writers. Reflections on the black experience, the American experience, and a more global experience and worldview are all widely discussed, as well as future trends and ascensions for black literature. Students, teachers, journalists, and other writers will welcome the chance to view parts of the writing process and see inside the heads of prominent black writers. Participants include Marita Golden, Walter Mosley, Ishmael Reed, Herb Boyd, Valerie Boyd, Haki R. Madhubuti, Elizabeth Nunez, Tananarive Due, Valerie Wilson Wesley, Camille Yarbrough, Susan McHenry, and many others.


Brenda M. Greene

Ph.D., Professor of English
Executive Director,
Center for Black Literature
Medgar Evers College

For information about the Center contact:
Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Executive Director
Center for Black Literature
bgreene@mec.cuny.edu
www.mec.cuny.edu/blacklitcenter



 

Related Links

The Tenth National Black Writers Conference - Brooklyn, NY - March 25 to March 28, 2010
http://events.aalbc.com/the_tenth_national_black_writers_conference.htm

The Ninth National Black Writers Conference Schedule (March 28 - 30 2008)
http://events.aalbc.com/9th_nbwc_schedule_2008.htm

The Ninth National Black Writers Conference: An Evolving Process
A reflective piece by Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Executive Director Center for Black Literature
http://events.aalbc.com/the_nbwc_an_evolving_process.htm

The Eighth National Black Writers Conference - March 30 to April 2, 2006
http://events.aalbc.com/the_8th_national_black_writers_conf.htm

National Black Writers Conference 2000
Report from the Field by Kalamu ya Salaam

http://events.aalbc.com/nat'l1.htm