[NEohioPAL]Playwriting Workshops at CSU's Imagination Conference

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Department of Marketing and Public Affairs		NEWS RELEASE
2121 Euclid Avenue		For Immediate Release
Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2214		June 15, 2006  14043
Telephone:  216-687-2290   FAX: 216-687-9229		Contact: Mary Grodek


Still time to register
Imagination Writers’ Conference links students with eight nationally known and
award-winning writers, July 11-16

	Attention aspiring writers: there is still time to register for Cleveland
State’s nationally known Imagination Writers’ Workshop and Conference, which
will take place at Trinity Commons, across the street from the Cleveland State
campus at 2230 Euclid Avenue, from July 11-16. The workshop attracts writers
from the region and around the country who need feedback on their efforts and
want to improve their craft.

The annual workshop’s focus is on strong, imaginative writing without genre bias
or boundaries, from science fiction to poetry, from playwriting to nonfiction to
the novel. Now in its 16th year, Imagination provides writers with a reality
check but also with a community, seasoned guidance, and an infusion of new
energy.

As part of the Imagination Conference, a one-day colloquium on “The Business of
Writing” will be held on Saturday, July 15 from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and can
be registered for separately. An experienced editor and a literary agent will
discuss the business and politics of publication in America, including the
logistics of submission; finding a market, an agent, a publisher; working with
editors; financial arrangements; the economics of publishing; and more.

	As in years past, Creative Writing Program director Neal Chandler has brought
together an outstanding group of distinguished and award-winning
writer/teachers from Ohio and across the nation. They are:

 	Tom Barbash − author of the New York Times bestseller On Top of the
World, the non-fiction story of Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond firm that lost
hundreds of employees on September 11.
 	Alicia Erian − her first novel, Towelhead, was a New York Times Notable
Book of 2005. Published in 11 countries, it has been adapted for the screen by
Alan Ball (American Beauty).
 	Susan Grimm − a founding editor of Ohio Writer, she is editor for the
Poetry Center at Cleveland State where she also teaches creative writing, and
was named Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association.
 	Steven Hayward − professor of English at John Carroll University. His
recent novel, The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke, just won Italy's Premio
Grinzane Cavour award for best debut novel, a prestigious international prize
won by some of the world’s most celebrated writers.
 	Sarah Morton − a playwright, actor, and educator, her play Night
Bloomers received its world premiere at The Cleveland Play House in 2006.
 	Brighde Mullins − holds MFAs from Yale School of Drama and Iowa Writers
Workshop, and is the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University. Twelve
of her plays have been produced in New York, London and Los Angeles.

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Imagination Writers’ Conference brings award-winning writers to Cleveland State,
July 11-16
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 	Tracy K. Smith − was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford
University, and currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University.
 	James Alexander Thom − best-selling author whose seven novels have sold
more than 2 million copies. Follow the River, the story of a young Virginia
woman’s capture by and subsequent escape from Shawnee Indians, is now in its
37th printing.
 	Brigid Hughes – is  the founding editor of A Public Space, a magazine of
literature and culture that debuted in March 2006. Previously, she was the
executive editor of The Paris Review.
 	Ginger Clark –  is  a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd.  Previously, she
worked at Writers House for six years and in publishing as an editorial
assistant at Tor Books.

The 2006 Imagination Workshop and Conference is generously supported by
individual donors and through a University Grant to Cleveland State’s Center
for the Arts and Innovation.

For more information and details on tuition and registering for Imagination,
please call 216-687-2532 or go to www.csuohio.edu/imagination/.
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