The IU Writers’ Conference will begin Saturday and continue through the middle of next week, featuring readings, classes and workshops.
In its 75th year, the conference will bring graduate and undergraduate students and interested participants from around the world to Bloomington, according to an IU press release. Workshops in fiction, prose narrative styles and poetry are available.
Additionally, the conference is partnering with IU’s annual Summer Festival of the Arts to provide free readings that are open to the public. On the schedule are readings by Adrian Matejka and Alissa Nutting, Lou Berney, Gabrielle Calvocoressi and John-Paul Zaccarini, a former circus performer who turned down offers to work with Cirque du Soleil to pursue a doctoral degree.
This year’s conference faculty includes Lynda Berry, Dan Chaon, Adrian Matejka, who was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Alissa Nutting, Lou Berney and ?Calvocoressi.
Registration for the workshops is still open. For more information, visit iuwc.indiana.edu/registration.
Holly Hays
IU Writers’ conference
The Glen at the Irish Lion
Readings by Adrian Matejka
and Alissa Nutting
8 p.m. Saturday
The Bloomington Playwrights Project?Readings by Lou Berney, Gabrielle Calvocoressi and John-Paul Zaccarini ?8 p.m. Monday
Readings by conference participants?8 p.m. Tuesday
Readings by Lynda Barry and Dan Chaon?8 p.m. Wednesday
