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20th Annual Fall Writer’s Conference at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education

October 1, 2017 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

The Cambridge Center for Adult Education is happy to host its 20th Annual Fall Writer’s Conference on Sunday, October 1st, 2017. For two decades, the Cambridge Center has hosted the Fall Writer’s Conference conference for local writers, with full -day workshops on topics in creative writing, from Haiku to Screenwriting. These workshops—run by teachers who have taught with the Cambridge Center for years and local writers—welcome writers from the Greater Boston Area and beyond to practice their craft or learn a new one.

The 20th Annual Fall Writer’s Conference is proud to have its keynote speaker Kim McLarin. McLarin is author of the novels Taming It Down, Meeting of the Waters, and Jump at the Sun, which USA Today described as having “the fire-breathing sass of Terry McMillan’s Waiting to Exhale and the soul-searching depth of Toni Morrison’s Beloved…honest and surprising and provocative.”  She is also the co-author of Growing Up X with Ilysah Shabazz. Her most recent memoir is Divorce Dog: Men, Motherhood and Midlife, and her nonfiction has also appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, the New England Review, The Washington Post, Slate, and other publications. She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Associated Press and is an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. McLarin is also a regular commentator on Basic Black on WGBH in Boston. Click here to read the Cambridge Center’s recent interview with Kim McLarin.

Workshops topics and speakers include: Finding Your Poetic Oz with Toni Bee; The Personal Essay Workshop with Alejandro Ramirez;  Writing from Your Own Experience with Mopsy Strange Kennedy; Basic Screenwriting Bootcamp with Andrew Osborne; Into The Moment: A Workshop on Haiku and Haibun with Jeanne Martin; Playwriting Workshop with Michelle Gabow; and Poetry Workshop with Katia Kapovich.

To view the complete schedule and buy tickets, visit: ccaewritersconference2017.eventbrite.com

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Date:
October 1, 2017
Time:
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Cambridge Center for Adult Education
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617-547-6789
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info@ccae.org
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ccae.org

Venue

Cambride Center for Adult Education
56 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
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ccae.org

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.