[ilds] CFP: TRAVEL WRITING, SPIRIT OF PLACE, & DISCOVERY OF SELF

[slighcl]

Dear Listserv:

Please give your attention to the following announcement and the 
attached pdf, which can also be found at

        http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org/cfp2008_tw.htm

The chance to meet and to hear the inimitable Jan Morris should not be 
missed, I think. 

Charles

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CALL FOR SEMINAR PAPERS

TRAVEL WRITING, SPIRIT OF PLACE, & DISCOVERY OF SELF
1-6 June 2008*

    The Durrell School of Corfu will host an international seminar and
    writers' feedback forum on "Travel Writing, Spirit of Place and
    Discovery of Self" at its Library and Study Centre, 1-6 June, 2008,
    in the company of distinguished guest-author Jan Morris, OBE, and
    Dr. Mark Morris.

*MODERATORS:*

    *Jan Morris*, CBE, world-renowned writer, journalist, historian,
    essayist, travel-writer and novelist, is the author of over forty
    books, many of them classics, including /Venice/, /Oxford/, /The Pax
    Britannica Trilogy/, /The Venetian Empire/, /Journeys/, /Hong Kong/,
    /Sydney/, /Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere/, and /Conundrum/. Jan
    will join us for 4 days and will talk informally about her work and
    the nature of travel writing.

    *Dr. Mark Morris* is the Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the
    Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, Canada, and is a
    writer, photographer, award-winning librettist, and broadcaster. He
    teaches creative non-fiction, including travel writing,
    concentrating on helping young writers emerge. He has written widely
    for magazines and newspapers in many genres, and his operas have
    been performed in eight countries and in four languages. His first
    book, Domesday Revisited, was an historical travel book, and his
    second, the Pimlico Dictionary of 20th-Centry Composers, a huge
    survey of 20th-Century classical music. His current projects include
    spending 2008 photographing the world of the university during the
    100th anniversary year of the University of Alberta.
        Mark (coincidentally the son of Jan Morris) has a particular
    interest in facilitating the Durrell School writers' forums. He is
    experienced in aiding, in a group context, writers who want to read
    and discuss their work, but who don't necessarily want their work
    'discussed.' Mark has done this at university level, ran similar
    forums at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and in the Writing Group he
    has run for over a decade. A supportive environment is top of his
    priorities.

*Proposals
*

    Creative or Critical Proposals (2 pages maximum), together with the
    author's CV, should reach the Durrell School by 15 February 2008
    durrells at otenet.gr. Presentations will be limited to 30 minutes
    each, with another 30 minutes allocated for discussion by
    participants including resident faculty and the moderators. Creative
    works will be developed during the full seminar.


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Charles L. Sligh
Department of English
Wake Forest University
slighcl at wfu.edu
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