Writing In Place Conference 2022

429 N Church St.,Spartanburg SC 29303

08 July, 2022

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Hub City will host the 22nd annual Writing in Place conference on July 8 - 10, 2022 at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. Hub City will host the 22nd annual Writing in Place conference on the campus of Wofford College July 8-10, 2022 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. This year's conference will feature lots of new workshops, faculty readings, and more! To keep everyone safe, COVID-19 protocols will be in place. Published novelists, poets, essayists, and literary critics lead a series of workshops over three days that include intense instruction, challenging exercises, and an opportunity for feedback. Registrants must sign up for one genre: poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Our instructors will expect you to write during this conference, and we have planned a weekend with "downtime" for that purpose. We also want you to have time for networking with faculty and new friends. This conference is open to 48 adult writers and sells out every year, so register early. This conference is geared toward starting a new piece of work rather than workshopping something you have already written. Our conference is held in the Michael S. Brown Village Center on the north side of campus. Overnight guests are housed in the Village apartment housing. Guests should bring towels, a pillow, a blanket, and sheets for a twin XL bed. Members of the Hub City Writers Project are eligible for a discounted rate. Please give us a call at 864.577.9349 and we'll be happy to check your membership status and give you a discount code. Don't know if you're a member? Feel free to give us a call at 864.577.9349 and we'll be happy to check for you. About Manuscript CritiquesFor a $50 fee you will get a twenty-minute private session with the faculty member in your genre. For manuscript critiques: after you register, please email ten pages of prose or up to five poems by June 21 to [email protected]. Critiques are available in all genres. 2022 Keynote Lecture - Taylor BrownTaylor Brown grew up on the Georgia coast. He’s the author of a short story collection, In the Season of Blood and Gold (Press 53, 2014), and five novels from St. Martin’s Press: Fallen Land (2016), The River of Kings (2017), Gods of Howl Mountain (2018), Pride of Eden (2020), and Wingwalkers (2022). You can find his work in The New York Times, Garden & Gun, The Bitter Southerner, The Rumpus, and many other publications. He’s been a recipient of the Montana Prize in Fiction, a three-time finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and he was named the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year for his novel Pride of Eden. After stints in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and the mountains of Western North Carolina, Taylor has settled in Savannah with his partner, painter AJ Grey, and their trio of rescue dogs. He serves as editor-in-chief of BikeBound, a custom motorcycle publication. This keynote address is free and open to the public! 2022 Faculty Faculty Poet: Tyree Daye Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections, River Hymns, the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, and Cardinal from Copper Canyon Press 2020. Daye is a Cave Canem fellow. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and is a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist. Daye most recently was awarded a 2019 Whiting Writers Award. Faculty Fiction Writer: Ashleigh Bryant Phillips Ashleigh Bryant Phillips is from Woodland, North Carolina. Her debut collection, Sleepovers, won the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. It was longlisted for The Story Prize, and stories from it appeared in The Paris Review and The Oxford American. Her fiction has been translated into Urdu and an Italian translation of Sleepovers is forthcoming this year. Ashleigh teaches fiction at West Virginia Wesleyan College's low residency MFA and is a Southern editor for Joyland Magazine. Faculty Non-Fiction Writer: Sayantani Dasgupta Born in Calcutta and raised in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is the author of Women Who Misbehave (Penguin Random House), Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between (Two Sylvias Press) & the chapbook The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood (Red Bird Press). Her writing has appeared in over 50 literary journals and magazines, including The Hindu, The Rumpus, Scroll, Economic & Political Weekly, IIC Quarterly, Chicago Quarterly Review, and others. She has been awarded a Centrum Foundation Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. Besides the US, she has taught creative writing in India, Italy, and Mexico. Sayantani is also the winner of Season 3 of Write India, adjudged by the novelist Kavita Kane, and organized by the books division of The Times of India.