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Friday, May 4, 2012
1:00 – 3:30 Board meeting (open
meeting, all welcome)
3:30 – 4:30 General Discussion of
Association (Executive Director)
4:30 – 6:30 Dinner on your own
6:30 – 8:30 Writers’ Roundtable – Prose
(Boyd Sutton)
6:30 – 8:30 Writers’ Roundtable –
Poetry (LaMoine MacLaughlin)
Saturday, May 5, 2012
7:30 – 8:30 Registration – Loretta Kottke
8:30 – 9:00 Welcomes and Announcements
President LaMoine MacLaughlin
Spring Conference Manager, Denis Simonsen
9:00 – 9:30 Speaker: Bruce Dethlefsen –
The Craft of Poetry
9:30 – 9:45 Break
9:45 – 10:15 Speaker: Anthony Bukoski –
The Art of the Short Story
10:15-11:15 Breakouts – Interactive Discussions
On Poetry – Bruce Dethlefsen
On the Short Story – Anthony Bukoski
11:15
– 11:30 Break
11:30 – 2:00 Lunch, Awards, Book Signing
2:00 – 2:30 Break and Silent Auction
2:30 – 3:00 Speakers Carolyn Wedin
& Carrie Classon – Creative Nonfiction
3:00 – 3:45 Interactive Discussion –
Creative Nonfiction
3:45 – 4:00 Wrap up (Executive Director
and Conference Manager)
Registration
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Questions
· Spring
Conference Manager: scfmgr [at] wiwrite.org
· Conference
Registrar: cfreg [at] wiwrite.org
Charter Club
Members
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members must register for the conference together to receive this
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your eligibility for a discount and for details about special registration
procedures.
Registrants with
Companions
Registrants with
special needs who require a guest to accompany them may contact the
Conference Registrar cfreg [at] wiwrite.org to request special
registration.
Speakers
 Anthony
Bukoski:
Anthony Bukoski was born in the East End of Superior,
Wisconsin, attended St. Adalbert’s Grade School, and began his
undergraduate work at Wisconsin State University Superior. After a year,
he left to join the Marines in the summer of 1964 and went to Vietnam. He
returned to Superior three years later and finished college. Next he
traveled to Brown University for an MA in English, then to Iowa in 1976
for an MFA in fiction from the Writer’s Workshop and a PhD in English,
finishing in 1984.
Anthony taught
English at his alma mater, UW-Superior. Anthony’s awards include the R.V.
Cassill Fellowship in Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, a
Booklist ”Editor’s Choice” for Time Between Trains, and the first
literary prize presented by the Polish Institute of Houston. Dr. Bukoski
recently retired from teaching.
Bukoski’s short story
collections:
North of the Port
(Southern Methodist University Press, 2008)
Time Between Trains
(Southern Methodist University Press, 2003)
Polonaise (Southern
Methodist University Press, 1998)
Children of Strangers
(Southern Methodist University Press, 1993)
Twelve Below Zero (Holy
Cow! Press, 1986, 2008)
 Bruce
Dethlefsen:
Bruce Dethlefsen
was appointed the Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2011 and 2012. He has
published two poetry chapbooks, A Decent Reed (Tamafyr Mountain
Press, 1999) and Something Near the Dance Floor (Marsh River
Editions, 2003), for which he won the Posner Book-length Poetry Award
Honorable Mention from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Breather
(Fireweed Press, 2009), his full-length poetry book, received an
Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library
Association. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2003 and
2009.
Bruce grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated from Paseo
High School in 1966. He completed his undergraduate degree in Secondary
Education at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and received his
master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of
Wisconsin–Oshkosh. Bruce has worked delivering telegrams, as a night
watchman in a cave, an emergency medical technician, a high school
librarian, a curriculum coordinator, and retired after being director of
the Montello (WI) public library. He has taught over a thousand people to
juggle.
Bruce served as secretary of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets for
six years, co-founded the WFOP Chapbook Prize and started Poet Camp. For
eight years, he directed The Poet Tree, a monthly reading by Wisconsin
poets at the Montello Public Library. Bruce has had many poems published
in journals and anthologies. Two of his poems were featured on Garrison
Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac on public radio and several poems were on
Your Daily Poem website. Bruce lives in Westfield, Wisconsin.
Carolyn Wedin:
Carolyn Wedin is a semi-retired teacher of
literature and composition, thirty years at the University of Wisconsin –
Whitewater, plus Fulbright appointments in Poland and Norway and teaching
exchange and employment at two universities in Sweden, Göteborg and Lund. She
grew up in rural Frederic, attended the one-room Round Lake School for eight years,
graduated valedictorian from Frederic High School in 1957, and has
degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College (BA), the University of Kansas (MA) and
the University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD.). Now that she
has returned home to the countryside of her youth, she teaches Community
Education classes in writing and “Drama in the North Woods” in Luck and
Frederic and does her writing looking out over the eagles flying above Spirit
Creek.
Her publishing and writing include several
academic books—on authors James Baldwin and Jessie Fauset and Maya Angelou; chapters
in many books, including African
Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House, 2010 and The Harlem Renaissance in the American West,
2012; and many entries in reference books of various kinds, including forty
articles in the five-volume Encyclopedia
of African American History: 1896 to the Present (2009).
Dr. Wedin has always had a corresponding
passion for writing for general readers, for writing “creative non-fiction.”
Some of her newspaper columns and commentaries for Wisconsin Public Radio,
1980-86 are collected in Wisconsin: A
Year; her experiences of 1991-92 in Letters
and Reflections from Poland, and she has currently sent to her agent a
manuscript, Lands of the Suspended Sun,
on her times in Norway and Sweden. Her biography, Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the
NAACP (John Wiley and Sons: NY, 1997) is very much intended to bridge the
gaps between academic research and writing accessible to everyone. And a
translation from the Swedish and editing she has done with a friend in Sweden, of L. J. Ahlstrom’s Historical Sketches, about pioneer life
in northwest Wisconsin, is of interest to
anyone curious about the past.
 Carrie Classon:
Carrie
Classon's career began as a professional actor in regional theaters on both
coasts and in the Midwest. She eventually founded the St. Croix Festival
Theatre in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and served as Managing Director for seven
years. After leaving the theater, Carrie received an MBA and worked for the
U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service and on public and private infrastructure
projects in West Africa, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
In 2006,
Carrie moved to Lagos, Nigeria. Her play, “Letters from Lagos,” an
autobiographical account of her time in Nigeria, was performed in 2009. In
2010, Carrie produced an original play by novelist David Rhodes about the life
of Gaylord Nelson which toured Wisconsin. For the past two years, Carrie has
written a weekly column, “Letters from Home,” which appears in newspapers in
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. She is writing a memoir about her time in
Africa and will be entering a creative nonfiction MFA program this fall. She
lives in St. Croix Falls with her well-traveled cat, Lucy, and dog, Milo.
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