EVENT: NWOSU "Festival of Words 2003"
DATE: October 4, 2003
Both readers and writers are invited to the “Festival of Words 2003” on Oct. 4 at Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Enid campus. The all-day event is sponsored by the Enid Writers Club and Northwestern.
Panelists on the program, include Merline Lovelace, Francine Roark Robison, Jan Epton Seale and Jeff Mullin.
A best-selling author, Lovelace has more than seven million copies of her historical sagas, military thrillers and romance novels in print in 28 countries. She was named Oklahoma Writer of the Year in 1998 and has received the Romance Writers Association RITA Award. An U.S. Air Force officer for 23 years, Lovelace also has been voted Oklahoma Female Veteran of the Hill and one of Oklahoma’s Top 10 Women in the News.
Robison was named Oklahoma’s Honorary Cowboy Poet Laureate in 2000 and was an English/humanities instructor for 29 years. She is the author of Night of the Cowboy and Other Poems and The Bell Does Not Dismiss You (and Other Myths of Teaching).
Seale is the author of The Nuts-&-Bolts Guide to Writing Your Life Story, Homeland, Bonds, Sharing the House and Airlift. She has been published in Newsday, the Yale Review and The San Francisco Chronicle and currently teaches creative and autobiographical writing in Texas.
A senior writer with the Enid News & Eagle, Mullin is the winner of 19 state writing awards, including 12 first place awards. He twice has been voted best columnist by the Associated Press Oklahoma News Executives and recently was inducted into the Oklahoma Press Association’s Quarter Century Club. His columns appear in print and online three times a week.
The day will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m. and pre-registered participants will receive an informational packet at that time. At 9 a.m., local columnist Ruth Ann Replogle will introduce the speakers and discuss each of the breakout sessions. At 10:30 a.m., Lovelace and Robison will lead breakout sessions. Seale and Mullin will lead sessions at 1 p.m. After a short break, door prize drawings and book signings will begin at 3:30 p.m.
Cost of the conference is $30 and does not include lunch. Writers, readers, genealogists, journalist and teachers are encouraged to attend. For more information, interested persons should contact Rita Hess at (580) 233-6436 or Judy Huhman at (580) 242-0418 or visit www.enidwritersclub.com on the Internet.
The Enid Writers Club was founded in 1923 by Roi Wolfinger and is the oldest continuously active group of its kind in the state.