Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference to be held this summer

Faculty and staff members who aspire to be published can save $100 by registering today for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, sponsored by UNT's Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism. The conference is July 22-24 at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, and today is the early registration deadline. Faculty and staff can register early to attend for $150, versus the regular $250 fee.

Registration includes a presentation by Susan Orlean, whose narrative about orchid poachers in Florida, The Orchid Thief, became the Academy Award-winning movie Adaptation in 2002. Those who want to attend only Orlean's presentation can pay $25 at the door and aren't required to register.

Other presenters include Norman Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time Inc. and Paul Hendrickson, author of Sons of Mississippi, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Participants who submit manuscript, article or essay samples will be eligible to attend writing workshops. A panel will judge the samples, and writers of the top 50 article/essay entries and the top 20 manuscripts will be selected for the workshops. In addition, writers of the top three article/essay entries will receive cash prizes, and the writer of the top manuscript will be offered a provisional contract by the UNT Press.

Individuals should submit samples to George Getschow, the conference writer-in-residence, by June 1. Manuscript fees are $50 per entry and article or essay fees are $20 per entry. Send samples to Getschow at the Mayborn Institute of Journalism, P.O. Box 311460, Denton, Texas, 76203-1460.

For more information, contact Mitch Land, Mayborn Institute director, at (940) 565-4564 or at maybornconferenceinfo@ unt.edu, or visit the conference web site at mayborninstitute.unt.edu.

BY NANCY KOLSTI nkolsti@unt.edu

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