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The 2005 Conference Features
The 2005 conference will be held Thursday 8/4 through Saturday
8/6/2005.
Fiction writer Lesléa Newman, screen writer James Burnstein, and poet David James will be this year's faculty
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Lesléa Newman
Lesléa Newman is the author of 50 books for adults and children, including novels, short story collections, poetry collections, humor, non-fiction, teen novels, middle-grade novels and picture books. Some of her well-known titles include A Letter to Harvey Milk (short stories), The Best Cat in the World (picture book), Hachiko Waits (middle-grade novel), Still Life with Buddy (poetry collection) and Write from the Heart (writer's guide). Her literary awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, three Pushcart Prize nominations, a Parents' Choice Silver Medal, a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund fiction-writing grant and a Highlights for Children Fiction award. Currently she is a faculty member of the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.
(more at the Houghton Mifflin web site.)
Lesléa Newman's Web Site
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James Burnstein
James Burnstein has taught screenwriting at the University of Michigan since 1995. He originated a course sequence at UM in which students write a full-length screenplay first term, then learn how to rewrite it second term. His produced work includes “Renaissance Man,” “The Mighty Ducks,” and “Naughty or Nice.” Currently he has work in production with MGM, Paramount, MTV Films, and Patchwork Productions.
(more at the University of Michigan Film and Video Studies web site)
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David James
David James now teaches for Oakland Community College after working over twenty years as a university administrator. His books of poetry include A Heart Out of This World (Carnegie Mellon University), Do Not Give Dogs What Is Holy (chapbook), I Dance Back (chapbook), and I Will Peel This Mask Off (chapbook). His poems have appeared in hundreds of magazines including the North American Review, Paris Review, Iowa Review, and Witness. Most recently, five of James' one-act plays have been produced off-Broadway in New York City. His plays “Finding the Muse” and “Aftermath” were produced at the American Globe Theatre, and three others, “After Godot,” “The Telepath at Lucky’s Bar and Grill,” and “One Good Life” were produced at Theatre-Studio.
“His writing is imaginative, clear, accessible, and funny. David is one of an all too small minority of poets who [are] able to use humor in [their] work. He is a writer who entertains without playing to his audience, a writer genuinely interested in the art of communication.” —Stuart Dybek
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Please note: The conference is limited to students enrolled in
colleges and universities in Michigan.
The conference will be held at the Academy of Art. (You’ll find
it just to the left of center at the bottom of the large map.)
Cranbrook Writers’ Conference is a unique writing and educational
entity. It is a conference open to all undergraduate writing
students in Michigan. It provides a sizable scholarship to each
student, nationally known
writers as instructors, and one of the most unusual and
beautiful locations in southeast Michigan as its setting.
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