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Janis Jaquith

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The Roanoke Regional Writers Conference III is scheduled for January 22 - 23 at Hollins University and features NPR essayist Janis Jaquith of Charlottesville as its keynote speaker. Among those teaching classes will be John Anderson, whose new book on working through cancer with his wife, Stand by Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men, which has become something of a national sensation.

Full information on the conference, including schedule and biographies of the presenters will be on this site shortly. You can register now, however.

The conference, which opens Friday evening with a wine reception at Hollins, features 24 classes and two round-table discussions on Saturday. The conference is aimed at vocational and avocational writers who want to become better at their craft and to network with other writers from the region. Cost — which includes the reception, coffee all day Saturday and lunch — is $50.

Among the other presenters will be Blue Ridge Country editor Cara Modisett, Leisure Publishing Editor in Chief Kurt Rheinheimer, two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Rex Bowman, local historian and columnist Darrell Laurant of Lynchburg, writer-educators Roland Lazenby and Jeanne Larsen, former Omni Magazine editor Keith Ferrell (who has written 18 books), poet Melanie Almeder, author and educator Doug Cumming (The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity), and filmmaker Sara Elizabeth Timmins of Smith Mountain Lake, among others.

For more details, get in touch with conference organizer Dan Smith at 540-556-8510 or e-mail at editrdan@msn.com.

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