CFP: Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton (11/3/03; 2/26/04-2/28/04)

Eighth Annual Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton

Keynote Speaker: Peter Hedges
                    author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape?; An Ocean in Iowa; the Academy Award nominated screenplay About a Boy; and director of Pieces of April

Possible submissions:
--poetry, fiction, or non-fiction essays (15-20 minutes reading time)
--critical or biographical essays or panels on Peter Hedges (abstracts of 250 words)

Deadline: November 3, 2003
Notification by November 19, 2003

Send submissions and inquiries to
Dr. John Wegner, Conference Chair
Department of English
Angelo State University
#10894, ASU Station
San Angelo, TX 76909-0894

Email submissions accepted at john.wegner_at_angelo.edu.
For more conference information visit http://www.angelo.edu/dept/english/asu_writers_conference.htm.

About the Conference:
The conference invites fiction, poetry, critical essays, and short films on all aspects of cultural diversity in the Southwest. Particularly welcome are presentations of the works and influence of Peter Hedges. The annual conference honors the distinguished author Elmer Kelton. The first Distinguished Visiting Professor at Angelo State University and now an adjunct professor in the ASU English Department, he is one of the most respected and honored men of letters in Texas, recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association and of the Barbara McCombs/Lon Tinkle Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.

About Peter Hedges:
Peter Hedges’ first novel, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, was the basis for the 1993 film, which he also wrote. His second novel, An Ocean in Iowa, was published in 1998 by Hyperion Press. His novels have been published in fifteen languages. His screenplay adaptations include Jane Hamilton’s A Map of the World, Nick Hornby’s About a Boy (Academy Award, BAFTA and WGA nominations) and, most recently, Lauren Weissberger’s The Devil Wears Prada. With Pieces of April, Hedges makes his film directing debut. Variety Magazine named him one of the 10 Directors to Watch for 2003.
A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, he founded the Edge Theater in 1985, along with Mary-Louise Parker and Joe Mantello. Over a three year period he wrote and directed twelve works for the company. Hedges’ other plays include Baby Anger (Playwrights Horizons), Good as New (Manhattan Class Company) and Imagining Brad (Circle Repertory Theater), all of which have been published by Dramatists Play Service. He has taught at Bennington College, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and at Northwestern University’s National High School Institute. He has served as a Creative Advisor to the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony.
Hedges grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa. He now lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Susan Bruce, and their two children, Simon and Lucas.

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