Sorry if you got this twice. Please send this to anyone you think might be interested. The 10th Annual Lake Effect Writers Conference for High School Writers and their teachers will take place on February 10th, 2005 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm at Salt Lake Community College South City Campus and the general public with an evening reading at 7:00 pm that is free and open to the public. The conference this year will feature Peter Rock, Nick Flynn and Mark Conway. The students will interview each of the writers for the upper school literary magazine. Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of the novels Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, and Carnival Wolves. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared widely. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Nick Flynn's works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. He has written two collections of poetry: Blind Huber and Some Ether. He also authored A Note Slipped Under the Door with Shirley McPhillips. His poem, "Bag of Mice", won the "Discovery"/The Nation Award in 1999 leading to the publication of his first book of poems, Some Ether. In 2001, he won the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. Most recently he wrote Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, an account of his tumultuous early life and relationship with his father. Mark Conway is the recipient of awards from the Aldrich Poetry Competition, the Grolier Competition, and the McKnight Foundation. His work has appeared in Agni, Bomb, The Gettysburg Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Conway's debut book, Any Holy City, maps a rich and mysterious landscape haunted by ghosts-ghosts of the dead and the living, of addiction, sacrifice, of loss and love. He lives in Avon, Minnesota. Rowland Hall English teacher Joel Long founded the Lake Effect Writers Conference was founded in 1997 to provide a forum for high school writers to be in contact and learn from prominent, professional writers. The conference has hosted Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, National Book Critics Circle Award winner Stanley Plumly, MacCarther Fellow, Edward Hirsch, Utah Poet Laureate David Lee and Wyoming fiction writer Pam Houston, among others. The events are free and open to the public. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com