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Post MFA Alum Conference Deadline Last Call

Last Call! Yes, the house lights are about to come on. Tomorrow, May 14, is the deadline to register for this year’s conference.

We’ve had a wonderful response this summer and expect to have a wonderful time, and the wonderfulness could only be enhanced by your participation. It’s not too late. But after tomorrow it will be.

Here’s your link for info and for online registration. Notice that on the page there are two links: one to pay and one to register (fill out your information). It’s necessary to do both. http://www.wwcmfa.org/alumni/conference-information/

In case you haven’t heard we’ll be at St. Mary’s in Moraga, CA, which boasts one of the beautiful campuses in the country, July 28 through August 3(short stay available). If you follow the link, you can learn more about the campus and the larger area, stuff to do here, transportation options. Registrants will receive detailed information on all of that and more later this week.

Here’s that teaser about just some of the classes, panels, caucuses. Landscape and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief; Agent or Lit Publisher?; How to Order a Story Collection; “You Must Remember This…” ; Challenges and Joys of the Long Project; What Fools We Mortals Be; The Final Draft: A Debriefing; Hiding in the Bathroom: Writing During (and About) Parenting; Collaborative Associative Experiment; Writing at the Grass Roots; Stretching Along with Borges; Improv: Narrative and Lyric Games; The Devil’s in the Sequence; The Architecture of Dangerous Love in Alice Munro’s…

Join us!

Your alum conference organizers,
Peg Alford and Cass Pursell

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Alumni Conference Registration

To all fellow alums:

We’re so looking forward to seeing many of you this summer at the Post-MFA conference. As we hope you know by now it will take place July 28-Aug. 3 at St. Mary’s in Moraga, CA (SF Bay Area).

The response has been terrific this year and we’re full of anticipation.

You can still register but only through May 14. Please note that there will be no deadline extensions this year. If you’ve been dawdling, please don’t dawdle any longer. We are going to have a wonderful time, with brand-new grads, brand-new attendees, brand-new classes and lectures, panels, lectures, caucuses, workshops, readings — you name it. We want to see you and want your participation. But don’t delay.

Here’s your link for info and for online registration. Notice that on the page there are two links: one to pay and then a separate one to register (fill out your information). Please do both.

Can you register by US post, you ask? Yes, you can. The info is on the link for how to do that. Again, please note that your information needs to arrive BY May 14.

Here’s your link: http://www.wwcmfa.org/alumni/conference-information/

You want to hear about the tasty offerings for classes, lectures, panels, and such, don’t you? Here are just a few. Landscape and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Structuring the Short Story Collection, Hiding in the Bathroom: Writing During (and About) Parenting, The Devil’s in the Sequence, Writing at the Grass Roots, Improv: Narrative and Lyric Games, Challenges and Joys of the Long Project, The Architecture of Dangerous Love in Alice Munro’s…

Join us!

Your alum conference organizers,

Peg Alford and Cass Pursell

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Post-MFA Conference Deadline

Tomorrow, April 30, is the deadline to  register for this summer’s 2013 Goddard/Wally Alumni (Post MFA) Conference!

As a reminder, The conference itself is July 28 – Aug. 3 (or shorter stay option of July 31 – Aug. 3) at St. Mary’s in Moraga, CA (SF Bay Area).

From Peg Alford and Cass Pursell, your friendly conference co-coordinators:

We’re getting very excited as the registrations come in, from alums all over geographically — and temporally, as in grads of early days to brand spanking new.  Alums who have never attended before, ever, will be there.

The proposals for the classes and panels are varied and delectable, such as (very roughly paraphrased) theater games & improv & writing; writing “away from the self”; getting your mojo back; & more. There will be a fun Shakespeare reading, and of course, YOUR readings of your work.

To your choice of workshops, in addition to poetry & fiction, you may choose creative nonfiction this year.

Really, there’s simply too much to cover in this communiqué! You’ll have to come and see for yourself and from all the tasty offerings select your own smorgasbord.

You can be as involved as you like. Give a class, organize a discussion, participate in a panel. Attend those of your choice. Attend none. Hang out in your room, in the library, in the courtyard (St. Mary’s is gorgeous) and write, sleep, daydream. Hike! Swim!

Dance? Why, yes, if you care to. We’ll have one for sure.

The one thing you need to do, however, is get your registration in — now! Go to the website link and fill in the forms and pay on line, or download the forms, print out and fill and send the paper forms to us at the address listed.

http://www.wwcmfa.org/alumni/conference-information/

You’ve heard it said before and if you haven’t you need to: it doesn’t matter if you don’t know a soul who’s coming to the conference. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t interacted with another alum in years, decades. You belong. Your presence is wanted. You’ll find initial awkwardness will dispel quickly. You’ll see.

Questions? We’ve got answers! Just ask.

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Post-MFA Conference Registration Deadline

From Peg Alford and Cass Pursell, your friendly conference co-coordinators:

Hello, everyone,

Here’s your friendly little reminder that the deadline to register for this summer’s 2013 Goddard/Wally Alumni (Post MFA) Conference is quickly approaching. April 30 is the date.

The conference itself is July 28 – Aug. 3 (or shorter stay option of July 31 – Aug. 3) at St. Mary’s in Moraga, CA (SF Bay Area), a beautiful place particularly in the summer (that offers plenty to do, and we’ve got pages of them listed for you).

We’re getting very excited as the registrations come in, from alums all over geographically — and temporally, as in grads of early days to brand spanking new.  Alums who have never attended before, ever, will be there.

The proposals for the classes and panels are varied and delectable, such as (very roughly paraphrased) theater games & improv & writing; writing “away from the self”; getting your mojo back; & more. There will be a fun Shakespeare reading, and of course, YOUR readings of your work.

To your choice of workshops, in addition to poetry & fiction, you may choose creative nonfiction this year.

Really, there’s simply too much to cover in this communiqué! You’ll have to come and see for yourself and from all the tasty offerings select your own smorgasbord.

You can be as involved as you like. Give a class, organize a discussion, participate in a panel. Attend those of your choice. Attend none. Hang out in your room, in the library, in the courtyard (St. Mary’s is gorgeous) and write, sleep, daydream. Hike! Swim!

Dance? Why, yes, if you care to. We’ll have one for sure.

The one thing you need to do, however, is get your registration in — now! Go to the website link and fill in the forms and pay on line, or download the forms, print out and fill and send the paper forms to us at the address listed.

http://www.wwcmfa.org/alumni/conference-information/

You’ve heard it said before and if you haven’t you need to: it doesn’t matter if you don’t know a soul who’s coming to the conference. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t interacted with another alum in years, decades. You belong. Your presence is wanted. You’ll find initial awkwardness will dispel quickly. You’ll see.

Questions? We’ve got answers! Just ask.

 

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2013 ALUMNI CONFERENCE

We’re pleased to announce that the 2013 Alumni Conference will be held at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA from Sunday July 28, to Saturday, August 3. St. Mary’s boasts one of the most beautiful campuses in the country,  surrounded by 400 acres of hills, pines, hidden gardens, and hiking trails galore. http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/node/3243

Those of you who have never attended a conference before have probably already heard it: Come! You’ll be welcomed! It’s true, because you already belong here. Lots of recent grads have come in the last few years; reach out to someone you know who attended to check it out. Maybe recruit a buddy or two to share a ride (or teach a course or sit on a panel). Come create the residency you want!

For more information, visit the conference website at www.wwcmfa.org/alumni/conference-information/

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2012 Alumni Conference Recap

From Alumni Conference Coordinator Peter Klank (fiction, ’85):
First of all, get out  your 2013 calenders: next year’s Goddard/Warren Wilson Post MFA Conference is scheduled for July 28 – August 3, and will be returning to St. Mary’s in Moraga, California. If you haven’t been, talk to someone who has! The campus is reported to be heavenly (no pun intended), and there’s no better way to get energized and inspired on the one hand and still be relaxed and have fun on the other than to spend time with your fellow MFA alums. It’s been said uncounted times, but this is your tribe, and the conferences are just like the residencies. Without the stress. Or pressures. Or deadlines. Or really, any expectations whatsoever.

 

Here’s a very late recap of the 2012: we were back at Mt. Holyoke in South Hadley MA August 5 – 12, in a beautiful old dorm (perhaps one Emily stayed in?), lacking only in air conditioning, and don’t believe what anyone says, the temperature never hit the triple digits (no comment on the humidity). 40 alum had registered to come, and while two couldn’t make it, we had 27 for the Full-stay and 11 for the Short- (August 8 – 12). There were the usual workshops, two Manuscript Reviews (for consideration of poetry collections) and a Fiction Roundtable (for longer fiction works), and 12 classes, caucuses, and panels: on Rhetorical Shifts; Power of Contrast; Creative Nonfiction; Music to Further Poetry Writing; DYI Research; Novel Writing; Revision Techniques; Collaborative Associative Experiment (Marcia Pelletiere adapted part of a group dreamwork process as a way to stir up new ideas around particular images, characters, descriptions, etc., brought to the group by participants), and a trio of classes or caucuses complimenting one another by focusing on E-books, Self-Publishing, and Independent Notes on Publishing, the latter with very concrete suggestions on how to publicize and sell your books.

 

People seemed to like the food, we had two receptions (one each for arrival of Full- and then Short-stayers), the Silent Auction raised a goodly amount of money for Friends of Writers, and we had readings every evening, of course, by the best writers to the best audience available anywhere. The dance was held, for the first time, in Mt. Holyoke’s Campus Canter, which I guessed was going to be good when the techie asked me “Do you want the lights to move with the music?”

 

Maybe the best part, aside from the readings, was a new ritual this year, wherein rather than folks crossing the street to the local taverns or going back to their rooms after the readings, people gathered on the porch of the dorm every night, drinking wine (or not), chatting with old friends and new, moving from group to group, enjoying the cooling air.

 

So really, mark your calenders for next year…

 

Hope to see everybody there!

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