The Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center, Blacksburg, VA Outspoken novelist Rita Mae Brown headlines the Seventeenth Annual Blue Ridge Writers Conference that welcomes back a panel of distinguished and successful writers. Author of 29 books, Brown will deliver the keynote luncheon address. Also on the schedule are workshops in poetry, fiction, publishing, journalism and the essay, plus panels on writing advice and how writers groups can help. The keynote luncheon speaker is Rita Mae Brown, Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia and author of Spartina, winner of the 1989 National Book Award for fiction.
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