Writers Council

Joan Didion
Nat’l Book Award Winner

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Prize Winner

William Joseph Kennedy
Pulitzer Prize Winner

Colum McCann
National Book Award Winner

Salman Rushdie
Booker Prize Winner

Gay Talese
George Polk Award Winner

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Norman Mailer Writers Colony

10 months ago

There’s still time to get your application in! Learn more about our classes and application process at nmcenter.org/programs/2018-workshops ... See MoreSee Less

2018 Workshops – The Norman Mailer Center

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2018 Workshops Norman Mailer understood the importance of the written word and devoted his life to it. He participated in many writing conferences, met and corresponded with countless young writers and encouraged them to be the best they could be. The vision of the Center and the Colony is as wide a...

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11 months ago

CALL FOR PAPERS: 16th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference! ... See MoreSee Less

Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing

Call for Papers: 16th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference

Marriott Hotel, Macon GA

October 25-27, 2018

We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Norman Mailer Society Conference will be held in Macon, Georgia in cooperation with Middle Georgia State University. Jerry Lucas (grlucas@gmail.com), Jason Mosser (jmosser@ggc.edu), and Maggie McKinley (mmckinle@harpercollege.edu) are the program co-chairs this year, and welcome your proposals for papers and panels on any aspect of Mailer’s life and work.

To submit a proposal for a panel, individual paper, or special event, please e-mail the following to the co-chairs: 1) a 50-word biographical statement; 2) a 150-200 word abstract of the proposed presentation; and 3) an indication of any media requirements. Proposals are due by June 1, 2018.

To accommodate all presenters, paper presentations should be no longer than ten minutes. Full papers can be submitted for possible publication in The Mailer Review. Two or three papers will be presented in one-hour time slots, with the remaining time going to participant discussion and audience questions. Panels will run for one hour, as will most screenings and events. $100 travel grants are available for students whose proposals are approved.

Information about past conferences can be found here: normanmailersociety.org/conference
We also ask that all presenters become members of the Norman Mailer Society. Membership in the Society includes a copy of the twelfth issue of The Mailer Review. For further details and instructions, please see the 2018 membership dues form below.

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Norman Mailer Writers Colony

11 months ago

Happy National Library Week!

Today, the American Library Association is celebrating the most challenged books of 2017. While most books on the list last year are young adult works, Norman Mailer was no stranger to having his work challenged.

His 1948 work, "The Naked and the Dead" was banned in both Canada and Australia and was challenged in the U.S. for offensive language. While we've come a long way since Mailer's work was challenged, censorship is still an issue in libraries across the country. Below are the top ten most challenged books of 2017. ... See MoreSee Less

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Norman Mailer Writers Colony

12 months ago

“The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.” - Norman Mailer on the key traits of a writer. ... See MoreSee Less

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Norman Mailer Writers Colony

12 months ago

Learn more about the Norman Mailer Summer Writers Colony at Wilkes University, class offerings and more in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing’s monthly newsletter, Revise This! ... See MoreSee Less

Revise This! - Wilkes University

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During the January Residency, Dr. Bonnie Culver, program director and co-founder announced the new partnership between the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and the Norman Mailer Center. By partnering with the Norman Mailer Center, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony will now be perman...

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