The Writing Center Register Today! Writing | Literature | Culture CONTINUING EDUCATION Keynote Speakers Intensives Wednesday- Friday, June 4-6; 6:00-9:00pm Writing | Literature | Cultural Events James McBride: 10:15am – 11:00am Fiction Intensive: James McBride is an author, musician and screenwriter. His Kitty Pilgrim worked as a CNN correspondent and Fourth Annual landmark memoir, The Color news anchor for 24 years. As a New York-based of Water, was on the New York reporter her normal beat included politics and Times bestseller list for two years. economics but her assignments also have taken Writers’ ConferenCe It is considered an American her around the world. Pilgrim anchored her own classic and is read in schools and CNN morning show, and was anchor for prime time & intensives universities across the United broadcasts at CNN. She is also the author of The Explorer’s Code and The Stolen Challice States. His debut novel, Miracle James Mcbride Kitty Pilgrim Photo by Chia Messina at St. Anna was adapted into a Photo by Carol Seitz Conference major motion picture directed by American film icon Spike Literary Agent Intensive: Saturday, June 7, 2014 Lee. It was released by Disney/ Touchstone in 2008. He holds Rita Rosenkranz founded Rita several honorary doctorates Rosenkranz Literary Agency in 1990 Intensives and is currently a Distinguished after a career as an editor with major Wednesday- Friday, June 4-6 Writer in Residence at New York New York houses. She represents health, University. His most recent novel, history, parenting, music, how-to, popular science, business, biography, sports, The Good Lord Bird, won the popular reference, cooking, writing, 2014 National Book Award. spirituality, and general interest titles. Rita works with major publishing houses, as well as regional publishers that handle Nicholson Baker niche markets. She looks for projects that 12:30pm – 1:45pm present familiar subjects freshly or lesser- Rita Rozenkranz Nicholson Baker is a known subjects presented commercially. celebrated writer of fiction and non-fiction. He received a National Book Critics Memoir Intensive: Circle Award in 2001 for his Nicholson Baker has written a New York Times non-fiction book Double- Malachy McCourt Photo by Margaret Brentano bestseller memoir, A Monk Swimming. He has Fold: Libraries and the published many other books including, Singing Assault on Paper. He is a My Him Song, Danny Boy, Bush Lies In State, and writer for The New Yorker more. He is the co-author of the play A Couple of www.hunter.cuny.edu/thewritingcenter-ce and has written 13 novels Blaguards with his brother Frank. He has also had including, Vox, Checkpoint, articles published in many periodicals including New and House of Holes.The York, Newsday, National Geographic,Conscience Traveling Sprinker is his Malachy McCourt Magazine and the New York Times. HUNTER COLLEGE most recent work. 68TH STREET & LEXINGTON AVENUE The Writing Center Lewis Burke Frumkes, director EDUCATION www.hunter.cuny.edu/thewritingcenter-ce Questions? Email: [email protected] www.hunter.cuny.edu/thewritingcenter-ce Visit our website: www.hunter.cuny.edu/thewritingcenter-ce Bonnie Zobell- author, What Happened Here Check-in and Breakfast: 8:30am-9:00am Fiction I How to Register Carol Higgins Clark, Moderator - author, Gypped Joanne Wang- editor, Four Winds Press Susan Lewis - founding editor of Posit, author, How to be Session 1: 9:00am-10:00am Panelists: Mike Offit- author, Nothing Personal Another Online: ceweb.hunter.cuny.edu/cers/cers.aspx Warren Adler-author, The War of the Roses Session IV: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Select Browse Courses ; Summer 2014; Search under The Writing Center Literary Agents Panel Patty Volk - author, Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Phone: 212-772-4292 or 212-650-3850 Fax: 212-772-4302 - Rita Rosenkranz Literary Rita Rosenkranz, Moderator Me Mail: Continuing Education Programs at Hunter College Agency Meg Wolitzer - author, The Interestings Self-Publishing Panelists: Betty Sargent, Moderator - Founder and CEO of 695 Park Avenue, Room 1022E Alec Shane - Writer’s House Bookworks.com, The Self-Publishers Association New York, New York 10065 Memoir and Biography Panel For fax and mail registrations, please use the form below. 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