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Summer Writing Summit
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Join us for the 2nd Annual Summer Writing Summit, a two-day event for faculty, staff, students and community!
This year local authors will facilitate sessions on:
- writing poetry
- beating writer’s block
- writing children’s fiction
- writing crime fiction
- publishing
Students will get help with
- writing capstone papers
- honing research projects
- using AI appropriately
- understanding documentation styles
Teachers will get help with designing courses in the age of AI and academic publishing.
All attendees will have the opportunity to share their works-in-progress, practice their elevator pitch or present their research in a poster session.
Plus! Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley Jones will be here to read her poetry and facilitate a poetry-writing workshop!
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ITINERARY FOR SUMMER SUMMIT 2024
Vendors will be set up 10 am – 2 pm Monday (Sandridge) and 9 am – 1 pm Tuesday (Kares)
June 17, 2024
Kares Library
8:00 am – 5:00 pm: Registration
9:00 am – 9:50 am: Concurrent Session I
10:00 am – 10:50 am: Concurrent Session II
11:00 am – 11:45 am: Opening Session/Keynote address: Ashley Jones, Alabama Poet Laureate
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch/Book signing/Vendor Fair
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm: VIP lunch with Athens State president & special guests (invitation only)
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm: “Poetry in the Parlor” with Ashley Jones
3:30 pm – 4:20 pm: Concurrent Session III
4:30 pm – 5:20 pm: Concurrent Session IV
5:30 pm – 6:20 pm: Concurrent Session V
June 18, 2024
Kares Library
8:00 am – 12:00 pm: Registration
9:00 am – 9:50 am: Concurrent Session VI
10:00 am – 10:50 am: Concurrent Session VII
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Authors Panel
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm: Book signing and Vendor sales
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: “Open Mic”
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Contact Kem Roper for details.
Dr. Kem Roper
Writing Center Director
256-216-6670
[email protected]