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2009 Workshops & Sessions

The most enduring and popular features of the Somerset Community College Arnow Conference are the creative writing workshops. The lineup for 2009 continues that tradition.

Creative Writing Workshops

10 a.m. Friday, April 3, 2009

Poetry - Jane Gentry Vance, Kentucky Poet Laureate
Fiction - Gwyn Rubio, author of Icy Sparks and The Woodsman’s Daughter
Environmental Writing – Randall Roorda, Director of the University of Kentucky Writing Program
Publishing Non-fiction - Keven McQueen, writer and Eastern Kentucky University adjunct instructor

Politics and Economics in Arnow’s Cumberlands

1 p.m. on Friday, April 3, 2009
by Dr. Rob Weise, Eastern Kentucky University

Panel Discussion

Nature, History, and Culture: The Cumberlands of Harriette Arnow – 1:30 p.m. on Friday, April 3, 2009
Panelists: Rob Weise, Gurney Norman, Sandy Ballard, Randall Roorda

Concurrent Sessions

3 p.m. on Friday, April 3, 2009

1. Appalachian Angels — Sylvia Davis, a writer and teacher from Madison County
Making their Peace with God — Donna Summerlin, Lee University, Cleveland, TN
2. Interview Methods — Amanda Fickey, graduate student, University of Kentucky
Radical Religious Otherness — Beth Cahaney, Elizabethtown CTC
3. Harry Caudill: Still Relevant? — Donna Eisenstat, W VA Institute of Technology, Montgomery, WV
Ain’t Ain’t a Word — Laura Ruth Ward, University of Louisville