Writing Across the Margins: Illuminating Urban Voices

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Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark hosts the National Writing Project’s

2010 Urban Sites Network Conference

Writing Across the Margins: Illuminating Urban Voices

Date: Friday-Saturday, April 23-24, 2010
Location: Downtown Marriott Hotel Waterfront, Portland, OR

Keynote speaker & urban poet Patricia Smith, school visits, writing marathons, evening reception, dinner & entertainment, workshop sessions, breakfast& lunch buffet, book vendors. 

Conference Details:

Registration fees will be $150 for both days of the conference with extra fees for the writing marathons and $90 for Saturday only. Three conference meals are included in the full registration amount and two in the Saturday-only amount. Registration information will be available in January at the OWP’s website:  go.lclark.edu/owp.

In January the Oregon Writing Project will send out a Call for Proposals for workshop sessions.

Schedule:

Friday

• Visits to local schools and surrounding neighborhoods

• Two writing marathon strands:

      One on bicycles
      One on a trolley and walking

• Historical workshop about the Japanese internment in the Pacific Northwest
• Evening reception
• Dinner and local entertainment
• Open mic—bring your writing

Saturday

• Keynote speaker Patricia Smith—writer, performer, teacher, poet

• Interactive, engaging workshops

to inspire, illuminate, and deepen the teaching of writing

• Breakfast and lunch buffets

• Book vendors
• Annual USN Town Meeting