Compose Creative Writing Conference
Connect and create with practicing writers and publishers at Clackamas Community College's annual Compose Creative Writing Conference, hosted by CCC's English Department.
Conference Agenda
- 9:30 a.m. | Doors open
- 10-11 a.m. | Keynote with David Biespiel and Matthew Dickman
- 11:15 a.m.-12 p.m. | Publishing panel with Elisa Saphier, Ali Shaw and Laura Stanfill
- 12-1:00 p.m. |Break
- 1:15-2:30 p.m. | Early afternoon workshops
- 2:45-4:00 p.m. | Late afternoon workshops
Conference Keynotes
David Biespiel
David Biespiel is a poet, novelist, memoirist, critic and painter. He is the author of more than a dozen books, and a contributor to The New Yorker, The New Republic, American Poetry Review and Poetry. Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts and Stegner fellowships, Biespiel is Poet-in-Residence in the School of Writing Literature and Film at Oregon State University and founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.
Matthew Dickman
Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (APR, 2008), Mayakovsky’s Revolver (WW Norton & Co, 2012), Brother (Faber & Faber UK, 2013), Wonderland (WW Norton & Co, 2018) and Husbandry (WW Norton & Co, 2022). Recipient of the May Sarton Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, London Review of Books and The Poetry Review (UK), among others. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his son Owen.
