{"id":913,"date":"2008-06-12T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2008-06-12T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:02:00","slug":"conferences-im-missing-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/06\/12\/conferences-im-missing-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferences I&#8217;m Missing This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SFEtyEzCtjI\/AAAAAAAABkE\/iI_XaL9MFzM\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SFEtyEzCtjI\/AAAAAAAABkE\/iI_XaL9MFzM\/s200\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>But just because I&#8217;m missing doesn&#8217;t mean you have to.  Yes, if I weren&#8217;t getting married that week, I would be running off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogher.com\/blogher_conference\/conf\/\">BlogHer 2008<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu\/iswfest\/html\/welcome\/index.html\">Iowa Summer Writing Festival<\/a>.  And at the latter, I&#8217;d be here: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Memoir: The Vertical Pronoun and the Who Cares? Question,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which happens July 13-18, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Narrative Journalism: The Art of the Profile\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on July 19-20, both taught by Sarah Saffian.  For more info on these workshops, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu\/iswfest\/html\/instructor\/Saffian.html\">here.<\/a>  For general registration, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu\/iswfest\/html\/registration\/Web%20Registration%20form%202008.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And for the folks who have recently asked me for advice about MFA programs in creative nonfiction:  While I know little about the difference between various programs, I do know that had I not maxed out my savings on a PhD I would be running to go get me one of those.  Fellow writer and workshop teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethmerrick.com\/\">Elizabeth Merrick,<\/a> however, knows a lot about these programs and offers counseling and coaching and the like.  So I thought I&#8217;d point those wondering her way, since unfortunately I can be of little use in this particular respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But just because I&#8217;m missing doesn&#8217;t mean you have to. Yes, if I weren&#8217;t getting married that week, I would be running off to BlogHer 2008 and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. And at the latter, I&#8217;d be here: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Memoir: The Vertical Pronoun and the Who Cares? Question,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which happens July 13-18, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Narrative Journalism: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}