39th Annual IWWG Summer Conference The 39th Annual Summer ...

The International Women’s Writing Guild

The 39th Annual Summer Conference July 15-22, 2016 Muhlenberg College Allentown, Pennsylvania

Building a community of women who write.

The IWWG, founded in 1976, is a network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing. No portfolio is required. The IWWG has established a remarkable record of achievement in the publishing world, as well as in circles where lifelong learning and personal transformation are valued for their own sake. The IWWG nurtures and supports holistic thinking by recognizing the logic of the heart—the ability to perceive the subtle interconnections between people, events and emotions— alongside conventional logic. To learn more about us, visit our website at

www.iwwg.wildapricot.org.

I felt like I was accepted into a community, respected for who I am at the core. I went in wondering who I was and came out knowing I am a poet and a writer. - 2015 Summer Conference participant

39th Annual IWWG Summer Conference

The IWWG Summer

Muhlenberg College Allentown, Pennsylvania July 15-22, 2016

Conference is our signature event. This summer we celebrate

CONFERENCE PRICING

our 39th year of coming together, with over

Each package has different pricing for members and nonmembers. Want to join? Need to renew your membership? Please do so BEFORE registering for this event to enjoy member pricing.

thirty workshops ranging from three to five

Entire Event: Includes seven nights, twenty meals, all workshops, critiques, salons, open readings and book fairs. Check in Friday, July 15 (beginning at 2:00 pm) and check out Friday, July 22 by 10:00 am. Member rate: $1,325; Non-member Rate: $1,450.

memoir/personal narrative, screenwriting,

days in length and spanning fiction, poetry, playwriting, writing as performance, social

Long Weekend Package (Friday-Monday): Includes three nights (including Opening Night), nine meals (dinner Friday through lunch on Monday). Check in Friday, July 15 (beginning at 2:00 pm) and check out Monday, July 18 (out of room by 10:00 am). Registrants can attend all workshops and other conference activities on Monday (check-out day). Member rate $675; Non-member rate: $750.

justice, and mind/body/spirit. Critique

Weekday Package (Monday-Friday): Includes four nights and five days, twelve meals (Monday lunch through Friday breakfast). Check in Monday, July 18 from 8:00 am on, and check out Friday, July 22 by 10:00 am. Member rate $800; Non-member rate: $875.

on such topics as how to start submission

Commuter Daily Rate Package: Includes all workshops and activities for that day, as well as Opening Night admission, Friday, July 15. Can choose registration with meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) or without. To register for multiple days, contact us. Member rate $100/day (no meals), $140/day (with three meals); Non-member rate: $115/day (no meals), $155/day (with three

sessions are offered in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and five 90-minute salons will be offered this year, with facilitated discussion parties and how to build magical realism into your work. The week’s events will also include two book fairs and nightly open readings. To learn more about us, visit our website at

www.iwwg.wildapricot.org.

Workshop Leaders

Lisa Acerbo Fiction

Judy Adourian Playwriting/Critique

Kelly DuMar Lisa Freedman Writing as Performance Social Justice/Salon

Geri Lennon Social Justice

Judith Prest Mind/Body/Spirit

Jessica Mehta Publishing

Paula Scardamalia Fiction

Lynne Barrett Fiction

Suzi Banks Baum Memoir

Linda Bergman Screenwriting

Janice Gary Memoir

June Gould Poetry

Dorothy Randall Gray Memoir

Shawndra Miller Social Justice

Eunice Scarfe Memoir

Maureen Murdock Memoir

Heather Cariou Memoir

Joan Kane Nichols Fiction

Linda Leedy Schneider Myra Shapiro Poetry Poetry

Marj Hahne Poetry/Critique

Mary Beth Coudal Publishing

Joy Ross Davis Memoir/Publishing

Judy Huge Critique

Lisa Hase-Jackson Poetry

Cathleen O’Connor Fiction

Kathleen A. O’Shea Memoir

Jan Phillips Mind/Body/Spirit

Miriam Stein Social Justice

Marylou Streznewski Mind/Body/Spirit

Carren Strock Mind/Body/Spirit

OPEN READINGS One of the most beloved traditions of the IWWG Summer Conference is our nightly Open Readings. Every night (except Opening Night and Monday, which we take off for a much needed Susan Tiberghien Memoir/Critique

Pamela Varkony Social Justice

Anne Walradt Fiction Critique

Amy Wu Memoir

rest!) conference attendees gather to hear their peers read. Readings are three minutes in length (about 250-300 words), rigorously timed and enthusiastically received. If you’ve never

Salon Leaders

read your work aloud before, this is the time to do it: in a relaxed, inviting and supportive atmosphere.

Anne Anthony

B. Lynn Goodwin

Lisa Irish

Lisa Freedman

Elizabeth Kann

Alison Ruth

Opening Night Keynote Address: Nancy Giles NANCY GILES is an actor, comedian, and writer, with two Emmy Awards for her on-air commentaries on the acclaimed "CBS News Sunday Morning." She toured with Chicago’s famed Second City comedy troupe; was Jay Thomas’ sidekick on his “Morning Show” on Jammin’ 105 in New York City; and was the announcer and co-host of the cult favorite "Fox After Breakfast." Nancy's written four solo shows and is working on a collection of true stories called "Notes of a Negro Neurotic." Giles has offered her social and political perspectives on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," "Melissa Harris-Perry," "All In with Chris Hayes," "Politics Nation with Al Sharpton," and "Up with Steve Kornacki." On topics from politics and race to pop culture and body image, Giles says, “I want to make people laugh and I want to entertain them, but I also want to provoke thought and discussion.” Giles is a funny, perceptive, and provocative observer of today’s world.