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UMKC continues its service to community writers, readers, and want-to-be writers with two annual workshops tailored for both lay people and students. Beginning writers and those more established can attend each course for college credit or for noncredit.

 The Mark Twain Writers Workshop runs each weekday morning for three weeks, starting Monday, June 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and offers instruction in fiction, creative nonfiction, stage and screen writing, and poetry from New Letters editor Robert Stewart and novelist Michael Pritchett. Featured this year will be a symposium, “Getting Published,” with guest speakers and publishers.

The New Letters Weekend Writing Conference: Friday evening, June 24th, marks the start of the New Letters Weekend Writers Conference, held off campus at UMKC’s conference center and retreat in midtown, Diastole, running through Sunday, June 26th. The keynote address will be given Friday at 5:30 p.m. by two-time National Book Critics Circle Award winner, essayist, novelist, and poet Albert Goldbarth. The conference features instruction on how to write plays, scripts for TV and movies, poetry, fiction and journalism. For more see:  http://www.newletters.org/writingConferences.asp

In case you are not subscribed to the ORS listserv and your scholarship and research is in the humanities, here is a site for humanities grants.

• www.arts.gov/grants/apply
• ORS Listserv: www.umkc.edu/ors/home/listserv.cfm

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