Residents can now register for Wyoming Writers Conference

The Wyoming Writers Conference is scheduled to take place in June and those interested in attending can start registering May 15.

Brad Wilson, professor and director of the University of Wyoming’s creative writing program, will deliver the keynote address during the 2019 Wyoming Writers, Inc., conference.

His presentation, “You’re Talking to Yourself,” will be given during the conference banquet June 8.

Watson’s writing has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His first novel, “The Heaven of Mercury,” was a finalist fortThe National Book Award in 2002 and winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. Another creative work, “Miss Jane,” was one of 10 semifinalists for the National Book Award in 2016.

WW, Inc.’s annual conference occurs June 7-9, and will take place at

the Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie.

Early bird registration is open through May 15. Online registration is available through the organization’s website: http://www.wyowriters.org/2019-conference/. A special conference rate is available for students. Writers do not have to be Wyoming residents to attend.

In addition to Watson, other featured speakers and workshop presenters include: Page Lambert, founding member of Women Writing the West, writing retreat organizer, and longtime WW, Inc., member; Jovan Mays, former Poet Laureate of Aurora, Colo .; and husband and wife novelists, Tasha Alexander and Andrew Grant.

Learn more about the speakers’ at the website, www.wyowriters.org/2019-conference-faculty/.

Additionally, two literary agents, Andie Hodapp of the Kristen Nelson Literary Agency, and Stephanie Hansen of Metamorphosis Literary Agency and Jessica Kristie, founder of Winter Goose Publishing, will be on hand to meet with conference attendees and listen to pitches. Conference registrants can select with whom they would like to meet.

 The 2019 WW, Inc., conference is sponsored in part by grants from the Wyoming Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, the Wyoming State Legislature and the Albany County Tourism Board and Laramie Area Visitor Center.