Save the Date: The Auburn Writers Conference

On Friday and Saturday, October 8-9, 2010, the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts' Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and Department of English will host the first annual Auburn Writers Conference. The inaugural theme, The Child on the Page: Writing For and About Children, will focus on writing for and about children and young adults. With topics ranging from character and plot development, the future of books, and agent queries, this conference will bring together local and national authors and aspiring writers.

The Auburn Writers Conference 2010 will feature keynote speaker Julianna Baggott; publishing agent Holly Root; writer and illustrator Elizabeth Dulemba; and young adult authors Rachel Hawkins and Irene Latham. Auburn University's very own Chantel Acevedo, Judy Troy, Peter Campion and Peter Huggins of the College of Liberal Arts' English faculty will participate.

Small-group workshops, panel discussions, and readings will give established and emerging writers perspective, skills, and community.

For a full list of speakers, registration, agenda and more information, please visit The Auburn Writers Conference website at www.auburnwritersconference.org.

Join us for a book talk by Jim Buford

Jim Buford, author of the just released The House Across the Road, will read from and talk about his new work on Thursday, May 6, at 3 pm in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Auburn University Library.

The House Across the Road is a departure for the former nonfiction writer, whose previous works include the essay collections The Kindness of Strangers, The Best of Times, Pie in the Sky, and a social history, When the Lights Came On.