I suspect few, if any, of the eight dozen “students” who attended the eight-day Eckerd College Writers Conference, went away dissatisfied. That, in and of itself, is remarkable and a testimony to the conference organizers and staff. While many of the students may have experienced a twinge of dissatisfaction when contemplating the status of their […]
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Report from Day 1 of the Eckerd College Writers’ Conference
The tenth annual Eckerd College Writers Conference kicked off this evening with a wine and cheese reception and a program featuring Tim O’Brien, author of Going After Cacciato (1979), The Things They Carried (1990), In the Lake of the Woods (1994), July, July (2002) and others. O’Brien, winner of the National Book Award, the James […]