University of North Dakota Writers Conference

The University of North Dakota Writers Conference is an annual literary event held at the University of North Dakota (UND) located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The week-long Writers Conference is known for being one of the most distinguished cultural events on campus. It brings prominent writers from the United States and abroad to Grand Forks.

Number	Year	Theme	Participants
40th	2009	Wit	Steve Almond	Charles Baxter (Presidential Lecture)	Marco Candida	Chuck Klosterman	Jacqueline Osherow	Karen Rushow	Greg Williamson
39th	2008	Revolutions	Russell Banks (Presidential Lecture)	Junot Díaz	Alexandra Fuller	Alice Fulton	Peter Kuper	Salman Rushdie
38th	2007	Writing the Body	Stuart Dybek	Mary Gaitskill	Anne Harris (Painter)	Li-Young Lee	Timothy Liu	Leslie Adrienne Miller	Michelle Richmond	Miller Williams (Presidential Lecture)
37th	2006	Border Crossings	Carol Gilligan	Barry Lopez (Presidential Lecture)	Robin Magowan	Sam Pickering	Mark Salzman	Fan Shen	Nance van Winckel	Branca Vilela
36th	2005	Hope/Illusion	Chris Belden	Carolyn Forché	Charles Johnson	Marilyn Nelson	Kathleen Norris	Jane Urquhart	Jane Varley
35th	2004	35th Anniversary Writers Conference	Elmaz Abinader	Tony Buba	Annie Dawid	Louise Erdrich (Presidential Lecturer)	Albert Goldbarth	Tony Khalife	Marilynne Robinson	Mark Turcotte	Larry Woiwode
34th	2003	Art & Science	Natalie Angier	Rafael Campo	Devra Davis	Alison Hawthorne Deming	Thomas Disch	Ted Mooney	Pattiann Rogers	Oliver Sacks	Julia Whitty
33rd	2002	Explorations	Kate Daniels	Sharon Doubiago	Eddy Harris	Ursula Hegi	Bill Holm	David Treuer	Sara Wheeler
32nd	2001	Worklife/Lifework	Peter Carey	Gary Fisketjon	Kent Haruf	Natasha Tretheway	Joy Williams	Frederick Wiseman	Ofelia Zepeda
31st	2000	Writing War	John Balaban	Eavan Boland	Tessa Bridal	Robert Olen Butler	Helen Fremont	Arnold Isaacs	Ha Jin	Louis Simpson	Barbara Sonneborn
30th	1999	Expressing the Sacred	Joseph Bruchac	Robert Clark	Mark Doty	Galway Kinnell	Victor Masayesva Jr.	Peter Matthiessen	Ruhama Veltfort	Terry Tempest Williams
29th	1998	The Use of History	Toi Derricotte	Patricia Hampl	John Hanson	Paulette Jiles	Arnost Lustig	Josef Skvorecky	August Wilson	Susan Yuzna
28th	1997	Writing Nature: The Nature of Writing	Susan Griffin	Linda Hogan	Garrett Hongo	Bill McKibben	Bill Morrissey	Annick Smith	David Treuer	Meeka Walsh
27th	1996	Living in America	Rosellen Brown	Jon Hassler	Sydney Lea	Li-Young Lee	David Mura	Susan Power	Pattiann Rogers
26th	1995	States of the Art	Sherman Alexie	Gordon Henry Jr.	Yusef Komunyakaa	Bharati Mukherjee	Tim O’Brien	Sharon Olds	Marge Piercy
25th	1994	Homelands	Jonis Agee	Sandra Benitez	Adrian Louis	John Stone	Jervey Tervalon	Larry Watson	James Whitehead
24th	1993	La Literatura: Contemporary Latino/Latina Writing	Gloria Anzaldúa	Ana Castillo	Martín Espada	Francisco Goldman	Luisa Valenzuela	Ed Vega
23rd	1992	A Festival of Publishers and Writers	Carol Bly	Diane Glancy	Linda Hasselstrom	William Kloefkorn	Ted Kooser	Lon Otto	David Pichaske	Maura Stanton	Thom Tammaro	Mark Vinz
22nd	1991	The Literatures of Canada	David Arnason	Ven Begamudré	Di Brandt	Roch Carrier	Madeleine Gagnon	Kristjana Gunnars	W.P. Kinsella	Dorothy Livesay	Michael Ondaatje	Carol Shields	David Williamson
21st	1990	The Literature of Immigration	Karen Karbo	James McAuley	Reginald McKnight	Lore Segal	Ron Vossler	Will Weaver	Solveig Zempel
20th	1989	Circle of Many Colors	Gretel Ehrlich	Richard Ford	William Least Heat-Moon	N. Scott Momaday	Leslie Silko	David Solheim	Tobias Wolff
19th	1988	Parent and Child	Michael Dorris	Louise Erdrich	Patrick Hemingway	Adam Hochschild	Mona Simpson	W.D. Snodgrass
18th	1987	Writers of the Purple Sage	Ralph Beer	Joy Harjo	Robert Kammen	Larry McMurtry	Paul St. Pierre	Elizabeth Tallent	James Welch
17th	1986	To Make a Prairie	Raymond Carver	Ellen Gilchrist	Rebecca Hill	Maxine Kumin	Jay McInerney	Ernest Mickler	Robert Ward	John Yount
16th	1985	Narratives	Ann Beattie	Sandra Birdsell	Amy Clampitt	Jorie Graham	Alex Haley	Barry Hannah	Norman Mailer	Thomas McGrath (poet)
15th	1984	Nineteen eighty-four	Harlan Ellison	Gay Haldeman	Joe Haldeman	Robert Silverberg	Jane Sturgeon	Theodore Sturgeon	Luisa Valenzuela	Roger Zelazny
14th	1983	The Centennial Year	Joseph Brodsky	Carolyn Forché	Richard Howard	Bobbie Ann Mason	James Alan McPherson	James Merrill	Czeslaw Milosz
13th	1982	International Writers	Ellen Gilchrist	Thomas McGrath (poet)	Alain Robbe-Grillet	Susan Sontag	Arturo Vivante	Derek Walcott
12th	1981	Voices	Esther Broner	Robert Creeley	Etheridge Knight	Denise Levertov	Ntozake Shange	Richard Wilbur
11th	1980	The Storyteller	Harry Crews	Selo Black Crow	James Crumley	James Dickey	June Jordan	Richard Kostelanetz	Leslie Silko
10th	1979	Epitomes, Bombast, and Climaxes	Edward Albee	Robert Bly	Frederick Exley	N. Scott Momaday	Grace Paley	Megan Terry
9th	1978	The Mirror and the Lamp	John Ashbery	Amiri Baraka	William Burroughs	Ring Lardner Jr.	Tillie Olsen	Eudora Welty
8th	1977	Literature and Film	Harlan Ellison	George Garrett	John Houseman	Larry McMurtry	Marcel Ophuls	Joan Tewkesbury
7th	1976	New Journalism and the Novel	Truman Capote	Ed McClanahan	B.J. Phillips	Alix Kates Shulman	Larry Woiwode	Tom Wolfe
6th	1975	Spirit of Place	John Barth	Wendell Berry	William Gass	Ken Kesey	N. Scott Momaday	Ishmael Reed	Alice Walker
5th	1974	City Lights Bookstore in North Dakota	Gregory Corso	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Allen Ginsberg	Michael McClure	Peter Orlovsky	Kenneth Rexroth	Gary Snyder
4th	1973	Women in the Arts	Gwendolyn Brooks	Carolyn Kizer	Myrna Lamb	Mary McCarthy	Diane Wakoski	Sylvia Wilkinson
3rd	1972	American Indian Writers Conference	Frederick Manfred	Ed McGaa	Thomas McGrath (poet)	Simon Ortiz	Jerome Rothenberg	James Welch	Ray Young Bear
2nd	1971	Northern Plains Writers Conference	David Evans	Roland Flint	Lois P. Hudson	Richard Lyons	Thomas McGrath (poet)	John R. Milton	Antony Oldknow
1st	1970	Southern Writers Conference on the Arts	William Anderson	John C. Carr	Fred Chappell	Jesse Hill Ford	George Garrett	Peter Taylor	James Whitehead

A film festival is held in conjunction with each Writers Conference.

External links

• UND Writers Conference website