State of the Art: The Winter Wheat Symposium
"The Story in All its Forms and Variations"

In conjunction with the 7th annual Winter Wheat Festival of Writing, Mid-American Review presents the 2nd annual "State of the Art" Symposium. The purpose of the symposium is to concentrate on a genre and provide an opportunity to address that genre's unique elements. Location TBA.

1:00 pm
"What Happens Next...Or Doesn't: Plot in Contemporary Fiction"

2:30 pm
"The New Realism: What passes as Traditional Storytelling"

4:00 pm
Keynote Panel: "State of the Art: The Story in all Its Forms and Variations"

8:00: Featured Reading with Cris Mazza (fiction) and F. Daniel Rzicznek (poetry)

Cris Mazza

Charles Yu

Wendell Mayo

Sue William Silverman

Michael Steinberg

David Shumate

Sean Thomas Dougherty

Mary Quade

F. Daniel Rzicznek

For more information, contact Karen Babine at kbabine@bgnet.bgsu.edu.

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