The International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG)’s 34th annual summer conference begins tomorrow, June 24th, on the campus of Yale University. The Guild’s goal is, “personal and professional empowerment of women through writing.” The week-long conference draws women from all over the world, and is open to all women regardless of their professional writing portfolios.
IWWG’s conference web page notes that its Women’s Writing Conferences have “been responsible for the publication of hundreds of books in major houses” since they began in 1976, though equal importance is given to “the use of writing as a tool for daily practice and personal growth.”
The conference features many interesting workshop topics including: “The Laughter of Women: Sublime to Outrageous and the Irony in Between”; “Finding the Me in Memory: Tools for Women in Transition”; and “The New Rules of Book Publishing: How to Build Confidence, Community, and Connection in the Digital Age.” There will also be open critiques in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and popular fiction.
“The overall value of this conference,” states the website, “is the creation of an atmosphere that stretches you as a writer, as a woman and as a person…to celebrate the feeling of being alive in the company of kindred spirits.”
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