Writing Today:

A Brief History

March 7-8, 2008
Walter Mosley (Grand Master). Major Speakers: Frank Deford, Julianna Baggott. Faculty: Linda Beam, Darryl Brown, Ruth Cook, Peter Donahue, Scott Fuller, Elizabeth Hughey, Sally Hill McMillan, Joe Musso, Ginny Phillips, Sharrif Simmons, Nathan Hale Turner, Maria Vargas, and Logan Ward. Also, Daniel Anderson (Critiques); Glenny Brock (Critiques); and Stacy M. Tintocalis (Critiques).

March 9-10, 2007
Gay Talese (Grand Master), Major Speakers: Rebecca Gilman, Richard Schickel. Faculty: Frederic C. Beil, Ken Booth, Dr. Myra Crawford (Hackney Readings), Kirk Curnutt, Freeda Fawal-Farah, Merle Ginsberg, Dan Green, Jennifer Horne, Watt Key, Steven Rudd, Jeanie Thompson, Ashley Umbaugh, Wendy Reed (Panel presenter and Critiques), Jim Gilbert (Critiques), and Jim Murphy (Critiques).

March 10-11, 2006
Rita Dove (Grand Master); Major Speakers: Juan Williams, Nathalie Handal, and Dr. Douglas Hofstadter.  Faculty:  Marlin “Bart” Barton, Wendy Reed Bruce (Critiques), John Calderazzo, Mark Childress, Stella Connell, Dr. Myra Crawford (Hackney Readings), Dr. Wayne Flynt, Jim Gilbert, Dr. Jim Murphy (Critiques), George Packer, Nancy Huddleston Packer, Deborah Serra, and Anne P. Wheeler.

March 11-12, 2005
Horton Foote - Silver Anniversary & Grand Master Tribute to Former Grand Masters. Major Speakers: Rick Bragg, Andrei Codrescu, Steve Almond. Faculty: Ron Rash, Sarah Crichton, Guy Martin, Milam McGraw Propst, Warren St. John, Dana Johnson, Dolores Hydock, Frank Stitt, Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Dana Johnson

March 12-13, 2004
George Plimpton (Grand Master – posthumous tribute with filmed interview excerpts by Don Noble, The Paris Review Executive Editor Brigette Hughes and Taylor Plimpton, son of George Plimpton) Major Speakers: Laure-Ann Bosselaar, David Guterson, Kevin Arkadie. Faculty: Ellen Archer, Jason Blume, Loretta Cobb, Charles Ghigna, Michael Martone, Norman McMillan, John Sledge, Brad Watson

March 7-8, 2003
Lee Smith (Grand Master), Major Speakers Hal Crowther, Jim Rogers, and Daniel Wallace.
Faculty: Marlin Barton, Dr. Myra Crawford, Lyn Deardorf, Pat DeVoto, Dr. Abe Fawal, Gary Fisketjon,Dr. James Haskins, Janet McAdams, Jim Murphy, Morgan Murphy, Carolynne Scott, Rev. Louie Skipper, Ellen Sullivan

April 13-14, 2002
Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Master introduced by former Grand Master 1999 Pat Conroy) Major speakers Nevada Barr, Peter Jenkins, and Jill McCorkle. Faculty : Robin Behn,Dr. William C. Carter, Curtis L. Clark, Mark Delaney, Michael Griffith, Anthony “Tony” Grooms, Carolyn Haines, Robert Inman, Marianne Merola, Marianne Moates, Jim Murphy, Carolynne, Scott, Jo Broyles Yohay

March 16-17, 2001
Galway Kinnell (Grand Master), Barry Hannah, Josephine Humphreys, James Redfield, Allen Barra, Jerry Bartholow, William Cobb, Ruth Cook, Jan DeBlieu, Peter Donahue, John T. Edge, Faye Gibbons, Paul Hemphill, Amy Holman, Alan Hunter, Judy Long, Karen McElmurray, Diane McWhorter, Terence Monmaney, Jim Murphy, Helen Norris, Nick Patterson, Bruce Schneider, Carolynne Scott, J.P. Smith, Elizabeth Woodman. Conference dedicated to the memory of Fred Bonnie

April 7-8, 2000
Ernest Gaines (Grand Master), Claudia Johnson, Sena Jeter Naslund, Ishmael Reed, Robyn Allers, Clyde Bolton, Fred Bonnie, William C. Carter, Loretta Cobb, William Cobb, Ruth Cook, Belton Cooper, John DeMers, Peter Donahue, Finley Bullard Evans, Beth Ann Fennelly, Tom Franklin, Simon Green, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Tina N. Jones, John Logue, Nancy Lemann, Mary Grace McCord, Joe O’Donnell, Jo Ellen O’Hara, Wendy Rose, Carolynne Scott, Frank Sikora, Mike Stewart, Susan Swagler, Joe Taylor, Glynn R. Wilson, Daniel Williams, Dianne Young

March 12-13, 1999
Pat Conroy (Grand Master), Connie May Fowler, Richard North Patterson, David Sedaris, Lydia Alexander, Robyn Allers, Leah Rawls Atkins, David Chapman Berry, Fred Bonnie, William Cobb, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rod Davis, Irene Dunlap and Patty Hansen, Ibrahim Fawal, Rebecca Gilman, Keith Glover, Jennifer Hebblethwaite, Todd Keithley, Kathy Kemp, Suzanne LaRosa, Don O’Briant, Judith Hillman Paterson, Sandra King Ray, Margaret Searcy, Terri Troncale, Dianne Young

March 20-21 1998
Horton Foote (Grand Master), A. Manette Ansay, Rick Bragg, Janet Burroway, Lewis Nordan, Howard Bahr, Fred Bonnie, Elizabeth Cox, Douglas Crichton Ginger Crichton, C. Michael Curtis, Rosemary Daniell, Wayne Flynt, Anne George, Dan Green, John Logue, James Mersmann, Han Nolan, Rick Reiken, Bob Sehlinger, Ellen Sullivan, Jeanie Thompson, Judy Troy, Randall Williams (conference dedicated to the memory of John Forney)

March 14-15, 1997
Joyce Carol Oates * (Grand Master), Joy Harjo, Gay Talese, Clifton Taulbert, Will Allison, Kevin Arkadie, Suzanne Comer Bell, Fred Bonnie, Bill Carter, Brent David, Dale Foster, Charles Ghigna, Patricia Hagan, Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton, Don Keith, Bob Robison, Dale Short, R. T. Smith, Nan Talese, Jeanie Thompson, Brad Watson *cancelled

April 12- 13, 1996
Shelby Foote (Grand Master), Albert Murray, Terrence Rafferty, James Tate, Ernie Eldredge, Christine Foster, Dale Foster, Wayne Greenhaw, William Heath, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Claudia Johnson, Madison Jones, Jennifer Joseph, Jeffrey McDaniel, and Bucky Sinister, Andrew Norwood, James Plath, Jim Reed, Jake Reiss, Ronald Rindo, Ellen Sullivan, Joe Taylor, Jeanie Thompson, Phyllis Tickle, Dara Wier, Charles Reagan Wilson

March 10-11, 1995
Ray Bradbury (Grand Master), Mark Childress, Peter Hellman, Mavis Jukes, Robyn Allers, Mary Barwick, Randy Blythe, Fred Bonnie, Joan Brandt, Barney Cohen, Bob Collins, Dennis Covington, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Philip Levitan, John Mariani, Charles McNair, Don Noble, Don O’Briant, Jim Plath, Dori Sanders, Bob Sehlinger, Randall Williams, Bruce Woods

April 8-9, 1994
Gwendolyn Brooks (Grand Master), Willie Morris, Bharati Mukherjee, Barbara Park, Howell Raines, Jerry Brown, Roger Casey, Dudley Cocke, Doug Crichton, Virginia Crichton, Charles Gaines, Patricia Gaines, Louis Giannetti, Phyllis Gooden, Dan Green, Mark LaFlaur, Marianne Moates, Sena Jeter Naslund, Penelope Niven, Ellen Sullivan, Scott M. Walker, George Wolfe

March 26-27, 1993
Donald Rodney Justice (Grand Master), Jesse Hill Ford, Lorian Hemingway, Ric Patterson, Kevin Arkadie, Leah Rawls Atkins, Robin Behn, Matthew Bialer, Will Blythe, Fred Bonnie, Roger Casey, Christine Clark, William Cobb, Abe Fawal, Brandan Galvin, Charles Ghigna, Louis Giannetti, Andy Kilpatrick, Hank Lazer, John Logue, Marianne Moates, Ruth Reuse, Elsa Rutherford, Shawn Ryan, Lee Shackleford, Frank Sikora, Anita Smith, Ellen Sullivan, Michael Swindle, Allen Wier, Dianne Young

March 27-28, 1992
William Styron (Grand Master), Mary Pope Osborne, Robert Reeves, Louis Rubin,Fred Bonnie, T. Alan Broughton, Dennis Covington, Paul Finebaum, John Forney, Betsy Graham, Amy Gary, Hubert Grissom, Winston Groom, Jon Jefferson, Nanci Kincaid, Margo Lion, Alan Litsey, John Logue, Douglas Looney, Mary Ann Naples, Mary Jean Parson, Theron Raines, Sandy Ratcliffe, Sam Ratcliffe, Ruth Reuse, Ronald Rindo, R. T. Smith, Elizabeth Vaughn, Martha Vertreace, Linda Wright

March 8-9, 1991
James Dickey (Grand Master), Dr. Worth McDougald, Richard Price, Robert Daley, Fred Bonnie, Mark Childress, Tom Clark, Chuck Dresner, Paul Finebaum, Robert Frese, Amy Gary, Thom Gossom, Hubert Grissom, Randy Hall, Molly Haskell, Peter Hellman, John Logue, Kirk McNair, Shirley Murphy, Geoffrey Norman, James Plath, Kirk Polking, Ronald Rindo, Andrew Sarris, Dale Short, Ellen Sullivan, Patty Sullivan-May, Bob Summer, Eugene Walter, Patricia Watson, Dr. Marvin Whiting, Linda Wright, Leo Wright

April 6-7, 1990
Peter Taylor (Grand Master), Henry Willette*, Ishmael Reed, Syd Field, Clyde Anderson, Mike Carlson, Ellen Datlow, Christine Foster, Robert Frese, Charles Ghigna, Al Head, Alvis Howard, Gerald Howard, Rodney Jones, Karen Lingo, Charles McNair, Marianne Moates, Pat Mulcahy, Don O’Briant, Joe O’Donnell, Patricia Potter, Tom Rabbitt, Shannon Ravenel, Ruth Reuse, Ronald Rindo, Paul Seitz, Nat Sobel, Ellen Sullivan, Lee Walburn, Patricia Watson, Ed Weathers *cancelled

March 3-4, 1989
Richard Wilbur (Grand Master), Susan Cheever, Fannie Flagg, Howell Raines, Fred Bonnie, Mark Childress, Edie Clark, Vicki Covington, Peter Hellman, Regina Grant Hersey, Fred Hill, Phillip Levitan, C. Eric Lincoln, Katie Lyle, Jeff Peters, Jeannie Vernoia, Donovan Webster, Alan Rinzler, R.T. Smith

April 29-30, 1988
John Barth (Grand Master), Marvin Bell, Bill Butterworth, Shirley Ann Grau, Winston Groom, Patricia Hagan, Betty Kelly Sargent, Theron Raines, John T. Sargent, Peter Taylor, Richard Walter, R. T. Smith, Sandra Agricola, Jerri Beck, Vicki Covington, Bob Levy, Stanley W. Lindberg, Dellita L. Martin-Ogunsola, Malcolm McDonald, Joe Ross, Margaret Searcy, Dorothea Snow, James F. Sulzby, Jr., Virginia Caldwell (special guest) (conference dedicated to James Saxon Childers)

March 20-21, 1987
Edward Albee (Grand Master), Jimmy Breslin*, Ellen Gilchrist, Howard Nemerov, Eugene Winick, Ben Conway, Bob Houston, Katie Lyle, Ric Patterson, Randy Blythe, Fred Bonnie, Mary Ward Brown, Pamela Carmell, Charles Henley, David Donaldson, Kathy English, Bernie Feld, Elaine Frederickson, John Logue, Janet McAdams, Marianne Merrill Moates, Eric Olson, Barbara Olson, Alan Perlis, Dale Short, R. T. Smith, Ellen Sullivan, Sue Walker (conference dedicated to the memory of Richebourg Gailliard McWilliams) *cancelled

March 7-8, 1986
Eudora Welty (Grand Master), Robert Daley, Sally Fitzgerald, Ishmael Reed, Richard Wilbur, Bob Wyatt, Fred Hill Louise Murphy, Margaret Pepperdene, Alan Barra, Fred Bonnie, Martin Buchanan, Mark Childress, Buddy Colvin, Lu Cruce, Arthur Deutcsh, Susan Hagen, David Jefferson, John Logue, Marianne Merrill Moates, Betty Pewitt, Jean Pierce, Alan Rinzler, Carolynne Scott, Ellen Sullivan, John Tatter

March 22-23, 1985
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Grand Master), Claude Brown, Eugene McCarthy, Tom Wicker, Alan Rinzler, Tillie Olsen, Andrew Glaze, Richard Beyer, Fred Bonnie, Peyton Carmichael, Joy Chambers, Mark Childress, Buddy Colvin, Dennis Covington, Myra A. Crawford, Arthur Deutcsh, David Donaldson, Abe Fawal, Bernard Feld, Paul Finebaum, John Forney, Stephen Gresham, Hubert Grissom, Virginia Hamilton, David Jefferson, David K. Jeffery, Tom Jenks, John Logue, Robert R. McCammon, Michael McInturff, Dail Mullins, Jo Ellen O'Hara, Clark Albright Powell, Julia Sather, Philip Shirley, Kathryn Tucker Windham, Jane Trechsel

March 23-24, 1984
Erskine Caldwell (Grand Master), Robert Creeley, Nora Ephron, Jesse Hill Ford, William Price Fox, Leah Rawls Atkins, Bill Barnard, Fred Bonnie, Mark Childress, Arthur Deutcsh, Julia Coley Duncan, Abe Fawal, Frank Fox, Susan K. Hagen, Catharine M. Hoff, Karen Irons, John Logue, Robert McCammon, Malcolm MacDonald, Michael McInturff, Tennant McWilliams, Margaret Searcy, Philip Shirley, Eugene Sledge, Dorothea Snow, Robert F. Sumrall, Martin Tucker

October 22-23, 1982
Andrew Lytle (Grand Master, not listed in brochure) Henry Steele Commager, William Price Fox, Galway Kinnell, Robert Massie, Jane Archer, Lawrence Ashmead, Fred Bonnie, Anne Cherner, Mark Childress, Julia Coley Duncan, Abe Fawal, Catharine Hoff, James Koger, John Logue, Michael McInturff, Howell Raines, William Ramsey, Henry Randall, Garland Reeves, Philip Shirley, Hackney Literary Awards Reading

October 31-November 1, 1980
John Gardner, William Zinsser, Fred Bonnie, Anne Cherner, Ann Deagon, Richard Friedman, Jesse Hill Ford, Charles Gaines, Patricia Gaines, Frederick Hill, Jean Wickstrom Liles, John Logue, Ric Patterson, Julia Sather, Clarke Stallworth; BSC faculty assisting with workshops: Jim Koger, Susan Hagen, Jane Mims, Michael McInturff

February 23-25, 1978
John Barth, Jesse Hill Ford, Charlotte Gafford, Charles Gaines, Patricia Gaines, Larry McMurtry, Nancy Huddleston Packer, Howell Raines, Anne Nall Stallworth, Geoffrey Wolff, Jill Krementz (photo exhibit) Introductions: Martin Hames, Hubert Grissom, Ellene Winn Welcomes: Mayor David Vann, Mrs. David Roberts III, Dr. John Pool