| Writers Conference Summary |
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40th: Wit |
March 31-April 4, 2009 |
Marco Candida, Jacqueline Osherow, Chuck Klosterman (North Dakota Humanities Council Lecture), Steve Almond, Charles Baxter (Presidential Lecture), Greg Williamson, Karen Russell |
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39th: Revolutions |
March 25-29-2008 |
Russell Banks (Presidential Lecture), Junot Díaz, Alexandra Fuller, Alice Fulton, Peter Kuper, Salman Rushdie |
 | 38th: Writing the Body | March 27-31, 2007 |
Stuart Dybek, Mary Gaitskill, Anne Harris (artist), Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Michelle Richmond, Miller Williams (Presidential Lecture) |
 | 37th: Border Crossings |
March 21-25, 2006 | Carol Gilligan, Barry Lopez (Presidential Lecture), Robin Magowan, Sam Pickering, Mark Salzman,
Fan Shen, Nance van Winckel, Branca Vilela |
 | 36th: Hope/Illusion |
March 29-April 2, 2005 |
Chris Belden, Carolyn Forché, Charles Johnson, Marilyn Nelson, Kathleen Norris, Jane Urquhart, Jane Varley |
 | 35th: 35th Anniversary Writers Conference |
March 23-27, 2004 |
Elmaz Abinader, Tony Buba, Annie Dawid, Louise Erdrich (Presidential Lecturer), Albert Goldbarth,
Tony Khalife, Marilynne Robinson, Mark Turcotte, Larry Woiwode |
 | 34th: Art & Science |
March 24-29, 2003 | Natalie Angier, Rafael Campo, Devra Davis, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Thomas Disch, Ted Mooney,
Pattiann Rogers, Oliver Sacks, Julia Whitty |
 | 33rd: Explorations |
March 18-22, 2002 |
Kate Daniels, Sharon Doubiago, Eddy Harris, Ursula Hegi, Bill Holm, David Treuer, Sara Wheeler |
 | 32nd: Worklife/Lifework |
March 18-23, 2001 |
Peter Carey, Gary Fisketjon, Kent Haruf, Natasha Tretheway, Joy Williams, Frederick Wiseman, Ofelia Zepeda |
 | 31st: Writing War |
March 20-24, 2000 |
John Balaban, Eavan Boland, Tessa Bridal, Robert Olen Butler, Helen Fremont, Arnold Isaacs,
Ha Jin, Louis Simpson, Barbara Sonneborn |
 | 30th: Expressing the Sacred |
March 16-19, 1999 |
Joseph Bruchac, Robert Clark, Mark Doty, Galway Kinnell, Victor Masayesva Jr., Peter Matthiessen,
Ruhama Veltfort, Terry Tempest Williams |
 | 29th: The Use of History |
March 24-27, 1998 |
Toi Derricotte, Patricia Hampl, John Hanson, Paulette Jiles, Arnost Lustig, Josef Skvorecky, August Wilson,
Susan Yuzna |
 | 28th: Writing Nature: The Nature of Writing |
March 18-22, 1997 |
Susan Griffin, Linda Hogan, Garrett Hongo, Bill McKibben, Bill Morrissey, Annick Smith, David Treuer,
Meeka Walsh |
 | 27th: Living in America |
April 9-12, 1996 |
Rosellen Brown, Jon Hassler, Sydney Lea, Li-Young Lee, David Mura, Susan Power, Pattiann Rogers |
 | 26th: States of the Art |
March 21-25, 1995 |
Sherman Alexie, Gordon Henry Jr., Yusef Komunyakaa, Bharati Mukherjee, Tim O’Brien, Sharon Olds,
Marge Piercy |
 | 25th: Homelands |
April 6-9, 1994 |
Jonis Agee, Sandra Benitez, Adrian Louis, John Stone, Jervey Tervalon, Larry Watson, James Whitehead |
 | 24th: La Literatura: Contemporary Latino/Latina Writing |
March 24-26, 1993 |
Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo, Martín Espada, Francisco Goldman, Luisa Valenzuela, Ed Vega |
 | 23rd: A Festival of Publishers and Writers |
March 17-20, 1992 |
Carol Bly, Diane Glancy, Linda Hasselstrom, William Kloefkorn, Ted Kooser, Lon Otto, David Pichaske,
Maura Stanton, Thom Tammaro, Mark Vinz |
 | 22nd: The Literatures of Canada |
March 18-22, 1991 |
David Arnason, Ven Begamudre, Di Brandt, Roch Carrier, Madeleine Gagnon, Kristjana Gunnars,
W.P. Kinsella, Dorothy Livesay, Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, David Williamson |
 | 21st: The Literature of Immigration |
March 20-23, 1990 |
Karen Karbo, James McAuley, Reginald McKnight, Lore Segal, Ron Vossler, Will Weaver, Solveig Zempel |
 | 20th: Circle of Many Colors |
April 3-7, 1989 |
Gretel Ehrlich, Richard Ford, William Least Heat-Moon, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, David Solheim,
Tobias Wolff |
 | 19th: Parent and Child |
March 22-26, 1988 |
Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Patrick Hemingway, Adam Hochschild, Mona Simpson, W.D. Snodgrass |
 | 18th: Writers of the Purple Sage |
March 17-21, 1987 |
Ralph Beer, Joy Harjo, Robert Kammen, Larry McMurtry, Paul St. Pierre, Elizabeth Tallent, James Welch |
 | 17th: To Make a Prairie |
March 17-21, 1986 |
Raymond Carver, Ellen Gilchrist, Rebecca Hill, Maxine Kumin, Jay McInerney, Ernest Mickler, Robert
Ward, John Yount |
 | 16th: Narratives |
March 18-22, 1985 |
Ann Beattie, Sandra Birdsell, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Alex Haley, Barry Hannah, Norman Mailer,
Thomas McGrath |
 | 15th: 1984 |
March 19-24, 1984 |
Harlan Ellison, Gay Haldeman, Joel Haldeman, Robert Silverberg, Jane Sturgeon, Theodore Sturgeon,
Luisa Valenzuela, Roger Zelazny |
 | 14th: The Centennial Year |
March 21-23, 1983 |
Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, Richard Howard, Bobbie Ann Mason, James Alan McPherson, James
Merrill, Czelaw Milosz |
 | 13th: International Writers |
March 22-26, 1982 |
Ellen Gilchrist, Thomas McGrath, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Susan Sontag, Arturo Vivante, Derek Walcott |
 | 12th: Voices |
March 16-20, 1981 |
Esther Broner, Robert Creeley, Etheridge Knight, Denise Levertov, Ntozake Shange, Richard Wilbur |
 | 11th: The Storyteller |
March 17-21, 1980 |
Harry Crews, Selo Black Crow, James Crumley, James Dickey, June Jordan, Richard Kostelanetz, Leslie Silko |
 | 10th: Epitomes, Bombast, and Climaxes |
March 19-23, 1979 |
Edward Albee, Robert Bly, Frederick Exley, N. Scott Momaday, Grace Paley, Megan Terry |
 | 9th: The Mirror and the Lamp |
March 20-23, 1978 |
John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, William Burroughs, Ring Lardner Jr., Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty |
 | 8th: Literature and Film |
March 21-25, 1977 |
Harlan Ellison, George Garrett, John Houseman, Larry McMurtry, Marcel Ophuls, Joan Tewkesbury |
 | 7th: New Journalism and the Novel |
March 15-19, 1976 |
Truman Capote, Ed McClanahan, B.J. Phillips, Alix Kates Shulman, Larry Woiwode, Tom Wolfe |
 | 6th: Spirit of Place |
March 17-21, 1975 |
John Barth, Wendell Berry, William Gass, Ken Kesey, N. Scott Momaday, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker |
 | 5th: City Lights in North Dakota |
March 18-22, 1974 |
Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Peter Orlovsky, Kenneth
Rexroth, Gary Snyder |
 | 4th: Women in the Arts |
March 12-16, 1973 |
Gwendolyn Brooks, Carolyn Kizer, Myrna Lamb, Mary McCarthy, Diane Wakoski, Sylvia Wilkinson |
 | 3rd: American Indian Writers Conference |
March 20-23, 1972 |
Frederick Manfred, Ed McGaa, Thomas McGrath, Simon Ortiz, Jerome Rothenberg, James Welch, Ray
Young Bear |
 | 2nd: Northern Plains Writers Conference |
February 16-19, 1971 |
David Evans, Roland Flint, Lois P. Hudson, Richard Lyons, Thomas McGrath, John Milton, Antony Oldknow |
 | 1st: Southern Writers Conference on the Arts |
April 21-25, 1970 |
William Anderson, John Carr, Fred Chappel, Jesse Hill Ford, George Garrett, Peter Taylor, James Whitehead |
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