February 29, 201610 yr comment_15748 Elizabeth Nunez and W. Ralph Eubanks Lead Summer Workshops JOIN HURSTON/WRIGHT FOR WRITERS WEEK 2016! Creative Nonfiction: W. Ralph Eubanks, workshop leader The Art of Fiction: Elizabeth Nunez, workshop leader Dates: August 6-12, 2016 Location: Howard University, Washington, D.C. Hurston/Wright workshops are open to Black writers published and unpublished. Spend 7 days sharpening your writing during intensive workshops and craft talks led by acclaimed authors. Creative Nonfiction This workshop explores the challenges of memoir, biography and nonfiction narratives. Photo: Stacey VaethW. Ralph Eubanks W. Ralph Eubanks W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South. He is the former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review and the former director of publishing at the Library of Congress. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the Eudora Welty Visiting Scholar in Southern Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, for the Spring 2016 semester. Click here for more information on Ralph Eubanks. The Art of Fiction This workshop for writers of short stories and long fictional narratives focuses on the essentials of skillful storytelling. Photo: Leonid Knizhnik Elizabeth Nunez Elizabeth Nunez Elizabeth Nunez is the award-winning author of nine novels and a memoir, Not for Everyday Use, which won the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction. Novels Boundaries and Anna In-Between were New York Times Editors' Choices. Anna In-Between won the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award. Nunez also is a recipient of the 2011 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers and Barnes & Noble, an American Book Award, and a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad & Tobago National Library. She is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY. Click here for more information on Elizabeth Nunez. CLICK FOR GUIDELINES AND TO APPLY Founded in 1990, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is a nonprofit committed to developing, mentoring, and honoring Black writers with workshops, awards and community. Learn more at Hurston/Wright Foundation Hurston/Wright Foundation | 202.248.5051| Email | Website Report
Create an account or sign in to comment