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The Cape Cod Writers Center’s mission is to assist published and aspiring
writers of all genres, abilities and ages to develop
their writing skills and to learn the business of editing,
publishing and publicizing; to publicize authors and
their works; to provide opportunities for writers to
congregate for inspiration, education, and networking;
and to introduce readers to authors and their work. |
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Join
Cape Cod Writers Center on-line through PayPal!
Become a Patron and we'll
link to your website - an excellent
way to reach your readers. (See Links to Our Patrons page.) We
have added 150 new CCWC members
since january, 2008, many who live off-Cape,
and many younger writers, helping
to rejuvenate our organization.
If you are a member, you may sell your books in our conference bookstore. Bookstore manager, George Comeaux is seeking members' books for the 2009 conference. (For other benefits, see Membership page.) |
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The
47th Annual Writers Conference
will take place August 15- 22,
2009 at the Craigville Conference Center in Centerville on Cape Cod. A Victorian village on Nantucket Sound, Craigville provides rustic inns and antique buildings used as classrooms.
This year we are trying a new format for the conference week: a double conference. You may attend for three or six days of classes and the usual evenings with an opening night, keynote speaker night, afternoon/evening Master Class for each conference, plus readings by faculty and attendees.
Two three-day conferences allow us to compress the usual five meetings over one week (for the 7.5 hour courses) into three 2.5 hour meetings. This format allows for twice as many courses, smaller classes (class size capped at 18), and courses at different levels. The Master Class will have no limit, and the advanced classes will be smaller. The new double conference week addresses feedback from our writers about the need to reduce class size and offer some classes for more experienced writers.
In addition, Craigville has worked with us to offer new accommodation packages. It is now possible to stay at Craigville Conference Center for three, four, six, or seven nights. If you wish to stay all week, as you may have in the past, you will have twice the class choices and twice the fun! There is no registration fee again this summer for CCWC members, which makes it possible for attendees who are staying all week or for commuters to select courses from both conferences.
For more information see the Annual Conference page for the 2009 program as it is evolving.
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Authors Drew Hubner, Helen Frost, Richard Wollman, Richard C. Hoffman, Lynne Heitman and Bill Roorbach among others will teach at this summer conference. Roger Sutton and Martin Sandler are Keynote Speakers for Conference A and Marita Golden and David Kirkpatrick for Conference B.
Poets include Martha Rhodes, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Charles Coe on publishing poetry, and Danielle Georges teaching poetry writing to Young Writers.
PHOTO to the left: a 2008 Breakfast with the Authors at Wianno Club featured (L to R), Nancy Rubin Stuart, John Hanson Mitchell, and Dan Robb.
(See
Breakfast with the
Authors webpage for more information.
See Channel 17 website for Books and the World times.
Authors interviewed so far in 2009:
January 9: Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Carol McManus
January 23: Bob Burns on his prize-winning screenplay "The Fix"
February 13: Lisa Genova and George Comeaux
February 27: Martin Sandler and David Wright
March 13: David Masch and Carlo D'Este
March 27: Libby Hughes and Anne Le Claire
UPCOMING:
April 10: Jamie Cat Callan and Tracey Fern
April 24: Adam Gamble and C. D. Colllins
May 8: David Brody, plus
May 22: Michael Tempesta, plus
June 12: Hallie Ephron and Brent Runyon
June 26: Susan Santangelo and Randy Peffer
July 10: Dana Eldridge and Laine Senechal
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ABOUT US
A
small group of Cape writers founded The Cape Cod
Writers' Center, Inc. (CCWC) almost half a century
ago. The summer of 1963 they gathered published
writers to teach a workshop that has evolved over
the past 45 years, gaining national recognition
in professional writers' circles.
The key contribution of the CCWC is this annual
summer CONFERENCE,
still held the third week in August at the charming
Craigville Conference Center in the Craigville
area of Centerville on Nantucket Sound.
For the past 30 years CCWC has received funding
to sponsor a tuition-free creative writing program
for 12 to 16 year olds, the YOUNG
WRITERS WORKSHOP, held in conjunction with
the CCWC conference. This program will be expanding
in the future.
In addition, other programs have evolved. During
the spring and fall, BREAKFAST
WITH THE AUTHORS , a literary event open to
the community, features three authors with recent
books, each presenting for 15 minutes or so, discussing
and signing their books.
Our TV show BOOKS
AND THE WORLD showcases four authors a month,
in 30-minute interviews about their recent books.
We also offer CCWC members:
PATHWAYS
TO PUBLICATION: one-day and
weekend seminars at different levels in various
genre and dimensions of writing, editing, publishing,
and publicizing. See plans for our May 15 to 17 Weekend with the Authors
on the Pathways webpage.
WRITERS GROUPS,
and frequent Writers Night Out
give members a chance to network and support one
another's writing.
Our Board of Directors and Advisory Board is comprised mostly of writers, including best-selling authors Robert
Finch, Anne LeClaire, Paul Kemprecos, and Hallie
Ephron. Generous literary
figures, such as Mary Higgins Clark and Poet Laureate
Ted Kooser, help us in various ways.
Officers:
President, Wallace Exman
Vice President, Kevin Symmons
Secretary-Clerk, Carol Smilgin
Treasurer, Arlene Kay
Directors:
Diana Barth, Elaine Cohen, George Comeaux, Shirley Eastman, Herbert Greenwald, Mary Littleford, Natalie Mariano, Bob Reddy, Suzie Reid
Advisory Board:
Alice Barton, Hallie Ephron, Robert Finch, Paul Kemprecos, Anne D. Le Claire, Leslie Meier, Richard Rosenthal, Glenn Rowley, Marion Vuilleumier
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