Paulette Livers’ debut novel, Cementville, published by Counterpoint Press, won, along with Joyce
Carol Oates and Isabel Allende, Elle
magazine’s Lettres Prize 2014. In addition, Livers has received awards,
residencies, and fellowships from the Artcroft Foundation, Aspen Writers
Foundation, the Bedell Foundation, Center for the American West, Denver Women’s
Press Club, Key West Literary Seminars, and Ox-Bow Artist Residence. The
recipient of the 2012 David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction, her work has
also been shortlisted for awards from Britain’s Bridport Prize, Hunger
Mountain, Writers at Work, and the Sozopol Summer Literary Seminars. Along with
Honorable Mentions for the Red Hen Press Short Story Award in 2011 and 2012 and
the Kentucky Women Writers Conference’s Gabehart Prize in 2013, her stories
have appeared in the Southwest Review, The Dos Passos Review,
and Spring Gun Press, among others, and may be heard at the
audio-journal Bound Off. A Kentucky native, she has lived and worked
around the US, and now calls Chicago home.
For additional information about this presenter, please see: www.paulettelivers.com
Meg Eden will present "Lit Mags aren't Dead Yet! Networking through Publication"
Meg Eden's work has been published in various magazines
including B O D Y, Drunken Boat, Mudfish, and Rock & Sling,
nominated for a Pushcart Prize, received second place in the 2014 Ian MacMillan
Fiction contest, and the 2012 Henrietta Spiegel Creative Writing Award. Eden’s
collections include Your Son
(The Florence Kahn Memorial Award), Rotary
Phones and Facebook (Dancing Girl Press), and The Girl Who Came Back (Red Bird Chapbooks). She teaches at the
University of Maryland and will be a visiting writer at AACC in 2014. Check out
her work at: https://www.facebook.com/megedenwritespoems
Kate Collins will present "The Art of Conversation: Tame the Tag Monster and Make Your Dialogue Sparkle"
Kate Collins
is the New York Times bestselling
author of the Flower Shop Mystery series. An Indiana native, Collins graduated
from Purdue University with a Master's degree in education. She taught
elementary school for six years, but after the birth of her first child, gave
up teaching to pursue a long-time dream of putting her stories to paper. After
publishing a series of short children’s stories, she sold her first historical
romantic suspense novel in 1995. Since then, she has published twenty-four
books, including fifteen mysteries. Please
see www.katecollinsbooks.com for further details. Collins, a longtime IWC member, gave the
keynote speech at its first annual networking dinner in 2008.
For the full conference schedule, please see: http://indianawritersconsortium.org/IWC-creative-writing-conference.asp
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