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26th Annual Writers' Conference and Writing Contest
March 14 – 15, 2008
Yoder Barn Theatre & Ferguson Center for the Arts
at Christopher Newport University
Contest registration deadline: Jan. 31, 2008
Keynote speaker: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
has published four books
of poetry, “Contrary Visions”
(under the name, Carolyn
Kreiter-Kurylo), “Gathering
Light,” "Death Comes Riding”
and “Greatest Hits,” and is the co-editor of two poetry
anthologies, “In a Certain
Place” and “Four Virginia
Poets Laureate.” She has had
three Pushcart Prize nominations,
an Edgar Allan Poe
First Place poetry award and
a First Place poetry award
from the Art & Writing
Collaborative, Chesapeake
Bay Branch of the National
League of American Pen
Women. Reproductions of her
paintings and sculpture appear
on the covers and pages of her
books. She lives in Hardyville,
Virginia.
Photograph courtesy of
Jeffrey W. Allision
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