Sunday, March 23, 2008

The 9th National Black Writers Conference


The Center for Black Literature
at Medgar Evers College, CUNY
presents
The 9th National
Black Writers Conference
Friday, 3/28 – Sunday, 3/30
Medgar Evers College Campus
1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn
Subway directions: #2, 3, 4, 5 to Franklin Avenue; walk down the avenue toward Empire Blvd.
INFORMATION: www.mec.cuny.edu/nbwc
Partial listing of conference participants: Amiri Baraka, Thulani Davis, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Erica Hunt, Tayari Jones, Kevin Powell, Quincy Troupe, Patricia Spears Jones, Martha Southgate, Quincy Troupe, John Edgar Wideman, and, for a Lifetime Literary Award, Sona Sanchez.