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The Cape Cod Writers Center’s mission is to assist published and aspiring
writers of all genres, abilities and ages to develop
their writing skills and to learn the business of editing,
publishing and publicizing; to publicize authors and
their works; to provide opportunities for writers to
congregate for inspiration, education, and networking;
and to introduce readers to authors and their work. |
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Join
Cape Cod Writers Center on-line through PayPal!
Become a Patron and we'll
link to your website - an excellent
way to reach your readers. (See Links to Our Patrons page.) We
have over 300 dues-paying members of CCWC at this time, including many who live off-Cape.
If you are a member, you may sell your books in our Annual Conference bookstore, and if attending the conference, an opportunity to publicize your book as well. (For other benefits, see Membership page.) |
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The
47th Annual Writers Conference
took place August 15- 22,
2009 at the Craigville Conference Center in Centerville on Cape Cod. A Victorian village on Nantucket Sound, Craigville provides rustic inns and antique buildings used as classrooms.
This year we tested a new format for the conference week: a double conference. Writers attended for three or six days of classes with the usual evening events - an opening night, keynote speaker night, afternoon/evening Master Class for each conference, plus readings by faculty and attendees.
This format allows for twice as many courses, smaller classes (size of regular classes capped at 18, advanced at 12 and 15 participants). The new double conference week addresses feedback from our writers about the need to reduce class size and to offer some classes for more experienced writers. In addition it eliminated all parking problems, with half the number of cars at each conference.
In addition, Craigville worked with us to offer new accommodation packages - attendees were able to stay at Craigville Conference Center for three, four, six, or seven nights. Those who stayed all week, as they have in the past, had twice the class choices. There was no registration fee again this summer for CCWC members, which made it possible for attendees staying all week or for commuters to select courses from both conferences.
For more information see the Annual Conference page, where you may download the 2009 conference program.
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At The Annual Conference:
This summer authors Drew Hubner, Helen Frost, Richard Wollman, Richard C. Hoffman, Lynne Heitman, Lynne Kiele Bonasia, Mitali Perkins, Deborah Kovaks, Jaime Cat Callan, and Bill Roorbach among others taught at the annual conference. Roger Sutton, Martin Sandler, Marita Golden, and David Kirkpatrick were Keynote Speakers .
Poets included Ellen Dore Watson, Kathleen Aguero, and Danielle Georges. Tom Daley presented a Daily Box Lunch Briefing on on-line poetry workshops.
During Cape Cod's shoulder seasons, CCWC sponsors breakfasts with three or four authors per event at mid-Cape locations.
PHOTO above: a Breakfast with the Authors at Wianno Club featured (L to R), Nancy Rubin Stuart, John Hanson Mitchell, and Dan Robb.
(See
Breakfast with the
Authors webpage for more information.
During Cape Cod's shoulder seasons, CCWC sponsors breakfasts with three or four authors per event at mid-Cape locations.
Also see Channel 17 website for when our Books and the World TV show is playing. Each show includes two author interviews. For consideration of being interviewed, send a copy of your book to Cape Cod Writers Center, Box 408, Osterville, MA.
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ABOUT US
A
small group of Cape writers founded The Cape Cod
Writers' Center, Inc. (CCWC) almost half a century
ago. The summer of 1963 they gathered published
writers to teach a workshop that has evolved over
the past 45 years, gaining national recognition
in professional writers' circles.
The key contribution of the CCWC is this annual
summer CONFERENCE,
still held the third week in August at the charming
Craigville Conference Center in the Craigville
area of Centerville on Nantucket Sound.
For the past 30 years CCWC has received funding
to sponsor a tuition-free creative writing program
for 12 to 16 year olds, the YOUNG
WRITERS WORKSHOP, held in conjunction with
the CCWC conference. This program will be expanding
in the future.
In addition, other programs have evolved. During
the spring and fall, BREAKFAST
WITH THE AUTHORS , a literary event open to
the community, features three authors with recent
books, each presenting for 15 minutes or so, discussing
and signing their books.
Our TV show BOOKS
AND THE WORLD showcases four authors a month,
in 30-minute interviews about their recent books.
We also offer CCWC members:
PATHWAYS
TO PUBLICATION: one-day and
weekend seminars at different levels in various
genre and dimensions of writing, editing, publishing,
and publicizing. See plans for our May 15 to 17 Weekend with the Authors
on the Pathways webpage.
WRITERS GROUPS,
and frequent Writers Night Out
give members a chance to network and support one
another's writing.
Our Board of Directors and Advisory Board is comprised mostly of writers, including best-selling authors Robert
Finch, Anne LeClaire, Paul Kemprecos, and Hallie
Ephron. Generous literary
figures, such as Mary Higgins Clark and Poet Laureate
Ted Kooser, help us in various ways.
Officers:
President, Kevin Symmons
Vice President, Wallace Exman
Secretary-Clerk, Carol Smilgin
Treasurer, Arlene Kay
Directors:
Elaine Cohen, George Comeaux, Shirley Eastman, Herb Greenwald, Bob Reddy, Nancy Rubin Stuart, Annie Palmer, Tom Smith, Ann Specht, Marianne Schafer, and Jim Hill.
Advisory Board:
Alice Barton, Hallie Ephron, Robert Finch, Paul Kemprecos, Anne D. Le Claire, Leslie Meier, Richard Rosenthal, Glenn Rowley, Marion Vuilleumier, Mary Littleford, Suzie Reid
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