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FEATURED WRITERS

 

Craft sessions and panel discussions with Lee Briccetti, Tina Cane, Mira T. Lee, Maria Mutch, Dariel Suarez, and Vikki Warner

Join us in Kingston, Rhode Island, located within distance to the Atlantic Ocean. By day, absorb the wisdom and insights of some of today’s finest writers. By night, explore the area’s local history, natural landscapes and seascapes, or the art galleries, museums and world-class dining in Narragansett, Newport, and Providence. Writers of all levels will find master classes, craft sessions, workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting to suit their needs. Home of the Ocean State Review, a literary annual published in conjunction with the conference.

We wish to thank the following for their generous support of the Ocean State Writing Conference: the Office of the Provost; the College of Arts of Sciences; the College of Business; The Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Common; the Office of Community, Equity, and Diversity; the Center for the Humanities; URI Athletics; the Department of English; the Department of Art and Art History; the Department of Computer Science and Statistics; the Department of Modern and Classic Languages and Literatures; the Africana Studies Program; the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, and Barrow Street Press.

A special thank you to President Dooley and Lynn Baker Dooley; Dr. Dorothy F. Donnelly, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of English and Gender & Women’s Studies; and  Dr. Winifred Brownell, Dean Emerita of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Photo credits: Dorianne Laux by John Campbell; Dawn Raffel by Clare Holt