Frostburg Center for Creative Writing

The first Nightsun Writers Conference is scheduled to be held at the Gunter Hotel located in historic downtown Frostburg. The conference will feature author Barbara Hurd who will teach creative nonfiction. The workshop has been designed to provide students with individualized attention and feedback to their work as well as to assist students with generating new material for publication. Her workshop includes reviewing and discussing the personal essay, memoir, and literary journalism. Using participant drafts, she'll help students develop specific strategies for shaping stories, distilling ideas, and enhancing the musicality of language.

Students will have the opportunity to meet with Barbara Hurd for a personal one-on-one consultation to discuss their work.

Barbara Hurd is the author of Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (forthcoming, spring 2008 from UGA Press), Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, a Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (2003), The Singer's Temple (2003), Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 (2001), and Objects in this Mirror (1994). Her essays have appeared in numerous journals including Best American Essays 1999, Best American Essays 2001, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Orion, Audubon, and others. The recipient of a 2002 NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club's National Nature Writing Award and Pushcart Prizes in 2004 and 2007, she teaches creative writing at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD, and in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.

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