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Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference
| Contact: | Nancy Eanes |
| Address: | Contact: PO Box 311460, Denton, TX, 76203-1460 Location: Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, 1800 Highway 26E, Grapevine, TX, 76051 |
| Phone: | Contact: 940-565-4564 Location: 817-481-8444 |
| Fax: | 940-369-8959 |
| E-mail: | neanes@unt.edu |
| Dates: | July 18-20, 2008 |
| Application Deadline: | Contest Submissions Deadline-June 13, 2008 |
| Tuition/Cost: | Registration Fees-Discounts for students and educators |
| Scholarships: | 10 full scholarships (registration fee and hotel for two nights) available to high school and college students who apply |
| Genres: | Nonfiction |
| Faculty/ Presenters: | Keynote speakers include: N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner, Bob Shacochis, National Book Award winner, and Candice Millard, author of River of Doubt. Other speakers for the weekend include: Ben Montgomery-general assignment reporter for the St. Petersburg Times and founder of Gangrey.com, Andy Van De Voorde, executive associate editor of Village Voice Media, Wright Thompson-senior writer for ESPN.com, Tim Madigan-narrative writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Brian Sweany and Pam Colloff-editors with Texas Monthly, Nick Heil-writer for Outside magazine, Paul Meyer and Stella Chavez-writers with The Dallas Morning News, John Burnett-roving correspondent for NPR, Ken Wells and Alexandra Wolfe from Portfolio magazine, Lee Hancock-enterprise reporter for The Dallas Morning News, David Patterson-senior editor at Henry Holt & Co., Cathleen Medwick-contributing editor at O, The Oprah Magazine. |
| Description: | The Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism at the University of North Texas will host the 4th annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference July 18-20, 2008 at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center. The primary goal for the conference is to provide an annual educational event in the growing discipline of narrative journalism that will attract writers, educators, journalism students and working journalism professionals for the exchange of ideas and self-examination. The conference includes a writing contest. $12,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the top six article/essays in two categories, research based reporting and personal essay. A $3,000 cash prize will be awarded to the top manuscript submission and a provisional book contract with UNT Press will be offered the winning manuscript. A writing workshop for selected writers only (the top 50 article/essay submissions and the top 20 manuscript submissions) will be held on Friday, July 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Confreres who want to have a private consultation on their literary projects can book time with one of our literary agents during the conference. Complete conference details can be found at the web site: www.TheMayborn.unt.edu |
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