Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2007

Submission Deadline: August 20, 2007

Keynote Speakers:

Chimamanda Adichie
Vijay Seshadri
Jo Ann Beard

Guidelines:

All applicants must be currently enrolled as graduate students in order to be eligible. Submissions may fall into one of the categories below:

Creative Submissions:

Creative prose, fiction or creative non-fiction should be of a length to be read within a 20-minute period (roughly 10-12 pages); please submit the entire piece to be read.

Poetry submissions should be 10 pages.

Note: Authors of creative submissions accepted by Writing By Degrees will be invited to submit the works to a special Fall edition of the journal Harpur Palate, although acceptance for publication is not guaranteed.

Academic Submissions:

Please submit a 1-2pp abstract.Possible Academic Submission Topics:

the craft and/or practice of writing
creative writing pedagogy
creative writing versus composition
the avant-garde in poetry or fiction