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Conference Details . . .
February 2009
Exact Date TBD
Location:
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Preiously located at
The Penrose House
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Hosted by:
The Colorado Springs School
For Submissions,
Online . . .
Download Complete Proposal Forms
Mail . . .
Attn: Jenn Gutierrez
21 Broadmoor Ave.
Colorado Springs, CO
80906
Fax . . .
719.475.9864
For Questions,
Phone . . .
719.475.9747
Ext. 540
Email . . .
jgutierrez@css.org
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4th Annual Student Literary Conference
Grades 6-12 . . .
Why Should My School Participate?
“Writing is an art, and it is meant to be shared like any other art form—with large and varied audiences. Student writers of this age group seldom have the opportunity to share work with people outside their own small school communities. This conference was founded on the idea that writing has the power to formulate compassions and alliances between young people who rarely come together in friendship. Too much of their experience with one another hinges on competition—at games, knowledge bowls, etc. Writers especially are built of the same stock, and they deserve the opportunity to appreciate one another, to form acquaintances and to realize that, while writing itself can seem like an isolating talent, there is a global community of writers beyond the walls of their usual reach.”
--Jenn Gutierrez, Teacher and Poet
20010 Call For Papers
An interdisciplinary student literary conference seeking to bring students from across the southern Colorado region together and provide them with the opportunity to share ideas. Students grades 6-12 interested in participating are encouraged to submit final proposals by February 13, 2008. Possible topics include:
Poetry Fiction Narrative Essay
Literary Criticism Contemporary Persuasive Issue
Historical Reference Cultural Identity
Art or Music Appreciation
*Performance/Spoken Word *Musical Solo
(Original Lyrics)
*Dramatic Monologue
Other topics welcome, as well as audio-visual mediums such as PowerPoint, Web/Blog
*Performance poetry, musical solo and dramatic monologues will be preformed rather than presented. 10 min limit
Students should convey interest by Feb 6th, 2009 (electronic submissions perferred, but fax and standard mail also accepted).
2009 Keynote Speaker
Pikes Peak Poet Laureate . . . Aaron Anstett
Aaron Anstett was born in Chicago and has lived in Colorado Springs for slightly over a decade. Anstett is a long-time supporter of poetry in the Pikes Peak region and beyond, having organized and hosted a number of benefit, open-mike, and National Poetry Month readings; judged local and national writing contests; overseen chapbook contests; served on several boards; been the lowest-scoring member on a local poetry slam team; corralled poems for The Independent; and taught. He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he held a Teaching-Writing Fellowship, and he was later the Halls Poetry Fellow at the UW-Madison Center for Creative Writing. Anstett's poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies and on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. His books are Sustenance, No Accident, and Each Place the Body's. Recent awards and recognition include Pushcart Prize Nominations, the Backwaters Press Prize, the Nebraska Book Award, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Aaron is employed full-time as a technical writer.
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