The conference is intended to encourage all genres of creative writing around a common theme of “place.” Fiction, poetry and non-fiction workshops will be led by award-winning authors Craig Johnson, Marilyn Kallet and Janisse Ray respectively. In addition to the conference activities, the visiting
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“Even while following signs and portents, the characters are the definition of creative agency. Masterfully told through … Kelly, who earned her MFA in creative writing from Rosemont College, credits her Rosemont education as having played a major role in her success. “As with anything in life, you get
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Saenz lives in an apartment in El Paso next to the campus of the University of Texas, from which he retired two years ago as chair of the creative writing department to devote full time to writing. “I am so grateful for my life now,” he says. “I've always known I was a gifted man; now I live life like I am grateful
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