First Annual Summer Nightsun Writers Conference

July 31 through August 3, 2008

at the Gunter Hotel

in Historic Downtown Frostburg

Tentative Schedule information:

Thursday night:
4-6:00 Registration
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Reading: Barbara Hurd and Gerry LaFemina

Friday:
9:00-10:00 Optional Session: Getting Started (writing prompts): Gerry LaFemina
10:15-12:30 Workshop
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Genre-specific craft sessions
2:30 Publishing Panel with LaFemina, Peabody and special guest Kim Dana Kupperman

Time on your own: Enjoy the hiking trail, explore the mountains, enjoy the community or just write and do not forget to take some time off to have dinner with other participants.

7:30 Reading: Richard Peabody and special guest Dustin Beall Smith (creative nonfiction).

Saturday:
9:00-10:00 Optional Session: Getting Started: Barb Hurd
10:15-12:30 Workshop
12:30 Lunch with a reading by our Featured Guest Stephen Dunn
1:30 Writer's roundtable: a discussion
2:30 Optional Conferences

Time on your own: enjoy the hiking trail, explore the mountains, enjoy the community or just write.
Dinner held on your own.

7:30 Participant reading

Sunday:
9:00-10:00 Optional Session: Getting Started: Richard Peabody
10:15-12:30 Workshop
12:30 Lunch to Go