Announcing Our Faculty for the August 3-6,2023 Cape Cod Writers Center Conference
The Cape Cod Writers Center is pleased to announce our outstanding faculty for the 60th Cape Cod Writers Center Conference, August 3-6, 2023.
The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis
Registration Opens May 22nd
Keynote Speaker
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Author, writing teacher, and former member New York Times editorial board
Verlyn Klinkenborg was born in Colorado in 1952 and raised in Iowa and California. He graduated from Pomona College and received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University. He is the author of Making Hay (1986), The Last Fine Time (1991), The Rural Life (2003), and Timothy: Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (2006), Several Short Sentences About Writing (2012), and More Scenes From the Rural Life (2013). He is the recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship and was a member of the New York Times editorial board from 1997 to 2013. He teaches at Yale University. Mr. Klinkenborg lives in rural New York state with his wife, Alexandra Enders.
Faculty:
Jeanette Bradley — children’s author and illustrator
Jamie Brickhouse — award-winning storyteller
Jacqueline Cangro — author & developmental editor
David Farrow — mystery author
Michael Fleming –-author, poet and editor
Vanessa Martir – memoir and fiction writer
Nathan McClain — acclaimed poet and author
Margaret McMullan — award-winning novelist and memoirist
Diane O’Connell –writing coach and developmental editor
Judith Swankoski–book marketing, social media and website expert
Stephanie Schorow — award-winning nonfiction reporter & author
Jeremy Wechter — story consultant and film maker
Agents:
Alicia Brooks — Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency
Jacqueline Flynn – Joelle Delbourgo Literary Associates
Maggie Cooper — Aevitas Creative Management