WOW Conference
Wonders of Writing Conference at SCC
Spartanburg Community College will hold the Wonders of Writing symposium on Thursday, October 20, at 7:00 PM on the central campus. Our featured authors (shown below) will read and discuss their works; the presentations will be followed by book signings in the auditorium lobby.
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Margaret Edson was born in Washington, DC, in 1961. Between
earning degrees in history and literature, she worked in the cancer and
AIDS inpatient unit of a research hospital. Wit, her first and only
play, was written in 1991. It received its first production in 1995 and
won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. The HBO production won the Emmy Award
for best film in 2001. The play has received hundreds of productions in
dozens of languages and is taught in classes ranging from high-school
English to medical ethics. It will be produced on Broadway, starring
Cynthia Nixon, in early 2012.
Ms. Edson is in her nineteenth year as a public school teacher. After
many years teaching kindergarten, she currently teaches sixth-grade
social studies at Inman Middle School in Atlanta. She and her partner
Linda Merrill are the proud parents of two sons, Tim, eleven, and Pete,
nine.
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Dori Sanders was
born in York County, South Carolina. Her father's farm, where her
family still raises Georgia Belle and Elberta peaches, is one of the
oldest black-owned farms in York County. Her father was a school
principal and an author. She attended York County public schools and
later studied at community colleges in Prince George's and Montgomery
counties in Maryland. She does most of her writing during the winter
months, in Maryland, where she is an associate banquet manager of a
hotel near Andrews Air Force Base. In the growing season she farms the
family land, cultivating peaches, watermelons, and vegetables, and helps
staff Sanders' Peach Shed, her family's open-air produce stand.
Clover, Sanders’ first novel, won the Lillian Smith Book Award in
recognition of its promotion of racial understanding. Sanders also
authored a second novel, Her Own Place, and a collection of narratives
and recipes, Dori Sanders’ Country Cooking. For more information visit
www.dorisanders.com.
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These distinguished writers will share their insights, creativity and enthusiasm for the writing process.
The WOW Symposium will take place in the Tracy J. Gaines Learning Resource Center auditorium on the SCC central campus.
Have a look at WOW 2010: View the videos of the
WOW evening event (readings and question/answer) and
WOW student discussions online.
For further information, please contact Judy Sieg, chair of SCC Humanities and Languages, at (864) 592-4940 or
siegj@sccsc.edu
We look forward to seeing you at the WOW Conference!