Award-Winning Authors Slated for Writer's Festival
Sep 24, 2008
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
BILL SNYDER, Concordia Writer’s Festival coordinator
(218) 299-3713
AMY KELLY, Media Relations and Publications director
(218) 299-3642
AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS SLATED FOR WRITER’S FESTIVAL
Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., will host three Minnesota Book Award winners and finalists during the annual Concordia College Visiting Writer’s Festival Oct. 1-3, which takes place on campus. Authors Diane Wilson, Jude Nutter and Alicia Conroy will take part in the three-day festival.
Students will engage with the authors through readings, master classes and class visits. The public is invited to a reading by the authors at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1 in the Jones Conference Center in the Knutson Campus Center.
Diane Wilson is the Minnesota Book Award winner in the Memoir, Autobiography and Creative Nonfiction category for her book “Spirit Car,” which focuses on retracing her family’s Dakota heritage through five generations.
Jude Nutter received the Minnesota Book Award in poetry for her collection of poems “The Curator of Silence.” Her poems have appeared in many international journals and anthologies.
Minnesota Book Award finalist in Novel and Short Story, Alicia Conroy, earned this distinction for “Lives of Mapmakers,” which is part of the Carnegie Mellon Press Series in Fiction. The book is a series of short stories that are both have historical reference and blend of fantasy.
The Writer’s Festival at Concordia began in 1999 as an opportunity for students to meet and learn from established writers. Each year since its inception, three regional writers have visited Concordia for the festival. Students are at the center of the event serving as hosts, moderators, introducers and facilitators.
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