Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Conference
TUITION / COST:$225 with registration by July 15 or $275 with registration by September 30. Single-day passes are $150. A discounted rate of $115 is offered to seniors, AZ educators, members of the military, and people with disabilities. Student rate is $75.
SCHOLARSHIP:Available
Scholarship informatiion can be accessed on our website at https://piper.asu.edu/conference/scholarships-and-fellowships
CONTACT: Sheila Black
PHONE: 480-727-7848
EMAIL: sheila.black@asu.edu
WEBSITE: https://piper.asu.edu/
Desert Nights, Rising Stars (DNRS) is a teaching conference that values nurturing and facilitating a community of writers committed to learning their craft. Our theme for 2024 is “Craft. Culture. Community.” We seek to create brave spaces where writers of all levels are empowered to uncover and share their stories.
The Desert Night, Rising Starts Writers Conference, sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU), will be held from October 10 to October 12 at the Memorial Union community center in the ASU Tempe campus in Tempe, Arizona. The theme for the 2024 conference is “Craft. Culture. Community.” Our 2024 keynote speakers are poets Nicole Sealey, originator of “The Sealey Challenge,” and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner John Murillo. The programming includes craft talks and classes, generative workshops, panels, readings, and events focused on the business of writing for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators. The venue is accessible, and we offer accommodations such as assistive listening devices, mobility assistance, etc. if we receive these requests in advance. ASL will be provided at the keynote. Speakers will be asked to provide text copies of talks for those who need them. For accessibility questions and requests, please reach out to Piper Events Manager, Iliana Garcia at Iliana.Garcia.1@asu.edu.
Faculty
Featured Writers Include:
Faculty and presenters include poets Brent Ameneyro, Francisco Aragón, Jacqueline Balderrama, Sally Ball, Sherwin Bitsui, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Elena Karina Byrne, Hayan Charara, Tami Haaland, Lois P. Jones, Patricia Colleen Murphy, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Susan Nguyen, Cindy Juyoung Ok, Justin Petropoulos, Alberto Ríos, TC Tolbert, Edie Tsong, Alexandra van de Kamp and Laura Villareal; poet and fiction writers Jenny Irish and Phillip B. Williams; poet and nonfiction writer Melissa Kwasny; fiction writers Camille Acker, Matt Bell, Debra Magpie Earling, Jonathan Danielson, Tara Ison, Caroline Kim, Gionni Ponce, and Ramona Reeves; creative nonfiction writer Deborah Jackson Taffa; and creative nonfiction writer and translator Sarah Viren.
Genres
Poetry, Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Children's literature
Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Witing
Location
450 E. Tyler Mall
Tempe
Arizona, United States
85281
Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU
Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing is a dynamic community resource for storytelling and contemporary literature, serving the intellectual and artistic life of Arizona State University, the Phoenix metropolitan area, and the state of Arizona. Piper programs include year-round writing classes offered to the community through Piper Writers Studio (PWS), free readings by diverse distinguished visiting writers through the Piper Distinguished Visiting Writers Series (DVWS), Community Outreach which sends teaching artists to offer creaative writing residencies in diverse community settings and Deserts Rising, Stars Writers Conference, our flagship annual writing conference held each October which offers three days of workshps, readings, and panels with an exceptional faculty of writers in all major genres. Piper also offers fellowships, including the Piper Scholars Fellowship, open to ASU students, and the Fellowship for Cultural Literary Exchange in the Literary Arts open to individuals and teams based in Arizona. Piper programs also encompass CantoMundo, a fellowship and residency for Latinx poets and the student-run journal Hayden's Review, which houses Thousand Languages Project which nurtures a culture of translation by mentoring students and others in translating pieces from the Hayden's Ferry Review Archives.
