National Black Writers Conference Call for Papers & Poetry Cafe Auditions

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DEADLINES QUICKLY APPROACHING!! 13th NBWC Poetry Cafe Auditions &  Call for Papers The 13th National Black Writers Conference: Writing Race, Embracing Difference   Produced by the Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College, CUNY Thursday, March 31, 2016 to Sunday, April 3, 2016 Register NOW!   When Thursday March 31, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT -to- Sunday April 3, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT Add to Calendar   Where Center for Black Literature Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College, CUNY 1650 Bedford Avenue BROOKLYN, NY 11225 Driving Directions Join Our Mailing List   #NBWC2016 #NBWCWritingRace #WritingRace Find this event on FB. The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY Phone: 718-804-8883 E-mail:  writers@mec.cuny.edu Like us:  Center for Black Literature  Follow us:  @Center4BlackLit NBWC Poetry Café Auditions Calling all Emerging Poets &  Spoken-Word Artists! This is your opportunity to shine! Online submissions will be accepted through January 28, 2016.   A live audition will be held for this event: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 (subject to change) 6:30 pm - 9 pm Edison O. Jackson Medgar Evers College, CUNY Brooklyn, NY 11225 This is a New Talent event. No artists with books printed by mainstream publishing houses. Groups and Individuals accepted.   RSVP's for the live audition must be made by: FEB. 5, 2016 Out of State? Learn how to submit electronically. Find this event on FB   See video from previous years now!     Would you like to become a panelist at the 13thNational Black Writers Conference? CALL FOR PAPERS   We invite interested faculty, independent researchers, and students to submit proposals for papers focused on the conference theme and panels or in the literature and work of our conference honorees:    Rita Dove, Edwidge Danticat, Michael Eric Dyson, Charles Johnson, & Woodie King, Jr. The year 2016 marks the centennial of the birth of author and educator John Oliver Killens, founder of the National Black Writers Conference.  As we celebrate his birth in 2016, we welcome proposals on the literature and works of John Oliver Killens.   A one- or two-page proposal with references should be submitted by January 15, 2016. Please include name and contact information on the title page.   Read full description now. Please submit to: writers@mec.cuny.edu  cc: bgreene@mec.cuny.edu  with "2016 NBWC Call for Papers" in the subject line.   Early rate currently available-  Register Now! Have additional questions about the conference? Find the answer on our FAQ's page.