Writers Conference Records, 1970-

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: John Little Personal/Biographical

Folder 2: 1st Conference, "Southern Writers Conference on the Arts": General, 1970

Folder 3: 1st Conference: William Anderson

Folder 4: 1st Conference: John Carr

Folder 5: 1st Conference: Fred Chappell

Folder 6: 1st Conference: Jesse Hill Ford

Folder 7: 1st Conference: George Garrett

Folder 8: 1st Conference: Peter Taylor

Folder 9: 1st Conference: Jim Whitehead

Folder 10: 2nd Conference, "Northern Plains Writers Conference": General, 1971

Folder 11: 2nd Conference: Dave Evans

Folder 12: 2nd Conference: Roland Flint

Folder 13: 2nd Conference: Lois Phillips Hudson

Folder 14: 2nd Conference: Richard Lyons

Folder 15: 2nd Conference: Thomas McGrath

Folder 16: 2nd Conference: John Milton

Folder 17: 2nd Conference: Antony Oldknow

Folder 18: 3rd Conference, "American Indian Writers Conference": General, 1972

Folder 19: 4th Conference, "Women in the Arts": General, 1973

Folder 20: 4th Conference: Gwendolyn Brooks

Folder 21: 4th Conference: Carolyn Kizer

Folder 22: 4th Conference: Myrna Lamb

Folder 23: 4th Conference: Mary McCarthy

Folder 24: 4th Conference: Diane Wakoski

Folder 25: 4th Conference: Sylvia Wilkinson

Folder 26: 5th Conference, "City Lights in North Dakota": General, 1974

Folder 27: 5th Conference: "City Lights in North Dakota: the Poet Looks at Industry and Ecology (Videotape Transcript)"

Folder 28: 5th Conference: Gregory Corso

Folder 29: 5th Conference: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Folder 30: 5th Conference: Allen Ginsberg

Folder 31: 5th Conference: Michael McClure

Folder 32: 5th Conference: Kenneth Rexroth

Folder 33: 5th Conference: Charles R. Rothschild Productions, Inc. (agent)

Folder 34: 5th Conference: Gary Snyder

Folder 35: 5th Conference: Open Mike Session, Tuesday, March 19, 1974

Folder 36: 5th Conference: Open Mike Session, Wednesday, March 20, 1974

Folder 37: 5th Conference: Open Mike Session, Thursday, March 21, 1974

Folder 38: 5th Conference: Open Mike Session, Friday, March 22, 1974

Folder 39: 6th Conference, "Spirit of Place": General, 1975

Folder 40: 6th Conference: "Spirit of Place: American Writers Look at People and Places (Transcript of Videotape)"

Folder 41: 6th Conference: Short Story by unknown author

Folder 42: 6th Conference: John Barth

Folder 43: 6th Conference: Wendell Berry

Folder 44: 6th Conference: William Gass

Folder 45: 6th Conference: Ken Kesey

Folder 46: 6th Conference: N. Scott Momaday

Folder 47: 6th Conference: Ishmael Reed

Folder 48: 6th Conference: Alice Walker

Folder 49: 7th Conference, "New Journalism and the Novel": General, 1976

Folder 50: 7th Conference: Truman Capote

Folder 51: 7th Conference: Ed McClanahan

Folder 52: 7th Conference: B.J. Phillips

Folder 53: 7th Conference: Alix Kates Shulman

Folder 54: 7th Conference: Larry Woiwode

Folder 55: 7th Conference: Tom Wolfe

Folder 56: 8th Conference, "Literature and Film": General, 1977

Folder 57: 8th Conference: Harlan Ellison

Folder 58: 8th Conference: George Garrett

Folder 59: 8th Conference: John Houseman

Folder 60: 8th Conference: Larry McMurtry

Folder 61: 8th Conference: Joan Tewkesbury

Folder 62: 9th Conference, "The Mirror and the Lamp": General, 1978

Folder 63: 9th Conference: John Ashbery

Folder 64: 9th Conference: Amiri Baraka

Folder 65: 9th Conference: William Burroughs

Folder 66: 9th Conference: Ring Lardner

Folder 67: 9th Conference: Tillie Olsen

Folder 68: 9th Conference: Eudora Welty

Folder 69: 10th Conference, "Epitomes, Bombast, & Climaxes": General, 1979

Folder 70: 11th Conference, "The Storytellers": General, 1980

Folder 71: 11th Conference: Selo Black Crow

Folder 72: 11th Conference: James Crumley

Folder 73: 11th Conference: James Dickey

Folder 74: 11th Conference: Antony Oldknow

Folder 75: 11th Conference: Leslie Marmon Silko

Folder 76: 11th Conference: Lawrence Watson

Folder 77: 12th Conference, "Voices": General, 1981

Folder 78: 12th Conference: Esther Broner

Folder 79: 12th Conference: Robert Creeley

Folder 80: 13th Conference, "International Writers": General, 1982

Folder 81: 13th Conference: Alain Robbe-Grillet

Folder 82: 13th Conference: Paul Engle and Hualing Nieh Engle

Folder 83: 14th Conference, "Centennial": General, 1983

Folder 84: 14th Conference: Joseph Brodsky

Folder 85: 14th Conference: Caroline Forche

Folder 86: 14th Conference: Richard Howard and James Merrill

Folder 87: 14th Conference: Bobby Ann Mason and James McPherson

Folder 88: 14th Conference: Czeslaw Milosz

Box 2

Folder 1: 15th Conference "1984" - General, 1984

Folder 2: 15th Conference: Harlan Ellison

Folder 3: 15th Conference: Joe Haldeman

Folder 4: 15th Conference: Robert Silverberg

Folder 5: 15th Conference: Jayne Tannehill Sturegeon and Theodore Sturegeon

Folder 6: 15th Conference: Luisa Valenzuela

Folder 7: 15th Conference: Roger Zelazney

Folder 8: 16th Conference "Narratives" - General, 1985

Folder 9: 16th Conference: Norman Mailer

Folder 10: 17th Conference "To Make a Prairie" - General, 1986

Folder 11: 17th Conference: Raymond Carver

Folder 12: 17th Conference: Ellen Gilchrist

Folder 13: 17th Conference: Rebecca Hill

Folder 14: 17th Conference: Maxine Kumin

Folder 15: 17th Conference: Jay McInerney

Folder 16: 17th Conference: Robert Ward

Folder 17: 17th Conference: John Yount

Folder 18: 18th Conference "Writers of the Purple Sage" - General, 1987

Folder 19: 18th Conference: Joy Harjo

Folder 20: 18th Conference: Larry McMurtry

Folder 21: 18th Conference: Paul St. Pierre

Folder 22: 18th Conference: Elizabeth Tallent

Folder 23: 18th Conference: James Welch

Folder 24: 19th Conference "Parent & Child" - General, 1988

Folder 25: 19th Conference: Michael Dorris

Folder 26: 19th Conference: Louise Erdrich

Folder 27: 19th Conference: Patrick Hemingway

Folder 28: 19th Conference: Mona Simpson

Folder 29: 19th Conference: W.D. Snodgrass

Folder 30: 20th Conference "Circle of Many Colors" - General, 1989

Folder 31: 20th Conference: Gretel Ehrlich

Folder 32: 20th Conference: Richard Ford

Folder 33: 20th Conference: William Least Heat-Moon

Folder 34: 20th Conference: N. Scott Momaday

Folder 35: 20th Conference: Leslie Silko

Folder 36: 20th Conference: Tobias Wolff

Folder 37: 21st Conference "The Literature of Immigration" - General, 1990

Folder 38: 22nd Conference "The Literatures of Canada" - General, 1991

Folder 39: 23rd Conference "A Festival of Publishers & Writers" - General, 1992

Folder 40: 24th Conference "La Literatura: Latino/Latina Writing" - General, 1993

Folder 41: 25th Conference "Homelands" - General, 1994

Folder 42: 26th Conference "States of the Art" - General, 1995

Folder 43: 27th Conference "Living in America" - General, 1996

Folder 44: 28th Conference "Writing Nature" - General, 1997

Folder 45: 28th Conference - Evaluations

Folder 46: 29th Conference "The Use of History" - General, 1998

Folder 47: 29th Conference - Evaluations

Folder 48: 30th Conference "Expressing the Sacred" General, 1999

Folder 49: 30th Conference - Evaluations

Folder 50: 31st Conference "Writing War" - General, 2000

Folder 51: 32nd Conference "worklife/lifework" - General, 2001

Folder 52: 32nd Conference - Evaluations

Box 3

Folder 1: 33rd Conference "Explorations" - General, 2002

Folder 2: 33rd Conference - Evaluations

Folder 3: 34th Conference "Art & Science" - General, 2003

Folder 4: 34th Conference - Evaluations

Folder 5: 35th Conference "3:5" - General, 2004

Folder 6: 36th Conference "Hope/Illusion" - General, 2005

Folder 7: 41st Conference "Mind the Gap" - General, 2010

Folder 8: 42nd Conference "International Affairs" - General, 2011

Folder 9: 45th Conference "Imagine" - General, 2014

Folder 10: 50th Conference "What the Future Holds" - General, 2019

Folder 11: Writers Conference Endowment, circa 1990s

Oversize Folder 1: Conference Posters, 1970-1979

Item 1: 1970: "Southern Writers Conference on the Arts" (5 copies)

Item 2: 1971: "Northern Plains Writers Conference" (4 copies)

Item 3: 1972: "American Indian Writers Conference" (3 copies)

Item 4: 1973: "Women in the Arts" (1 copy)

Item 5: 1974: "City Lights in North Dakota" (2 copies)

Item 6: 1975: "Spirit of Place" (1 copy)

Item 7: 1976: "New Journalism and the Novel" (3 copies)

Item 8: 1977: "Literature and Film" (2 copies)

Item 9: 1978: "The Mirror and the Lamp" (3 copies)

Item 10: 1979: "Epitomes, Bombast & Climaxes" (3 copies)

Oversize Folder 2: Conference Posters, 1980-1989

Item 1: 1980: "The Storytellers" (3 copies)

Item 2: 1981: "Voices" (3 copies)

Item 3: 1982: "International Writers" (5 copies)

Item 4: 1983: "Centennial" (3 copies)

Item 5: 1984: "1984" (6 copies)

Item 6: 1985: "Narratives" (3 copies)

Item 7: 1986: "To Make a Prairie" (4 copies)

Item 8: 1987: "Writers of the Purple Sage" (5 copies)

Item 9: 1988: "Parent & Child" (4 copies)

Item 10: 1989: "Circle of Many Colors" (1 copy)

Oversize Folder 3: Conference Posters, 1990-1999

Item 1: 1990: "The Literature of Immigration" (3 copies)

Item 2: 1991: "The Literatures of Canada" (1 copy)

Item 3: 1992: "A Festival of Publishers & Writers" (1 copy)

Item 4: 1994: "Homelands" (1 copy)

Item 5: 1995: "States of the Art" (1 copy)

Item 6: 1996: "Living in America" (2 copies)

Item 7: 1997: "Writing Nature" (3 copies)

Item 8: 1998: "The Use of History" (3 copies)

Item 9: 1999: "Expressing the Sacred" (3 copies)

Oversize Folder 4: Conference Posters, 2000-2009

Item 1: 2000: "Writing War" (3 copies)

Item 2: 2001: "worklife/lifework" (3 copies)

Item 3: 2002: "Explorations" (3 copies)

Item 4: 2003: "Art & Science" (3 copies)

Item 5: 2004: "3:5" (3 copies)

Item 6: 2005: "Hope/Illusion" (3 copies)

Item 7: 2006: "Border Crossings" (1 copy)

Item 8: 2007: "Writing the Body" (1 copy)

Item 9: 2008: "Revolutions" (2 copies)

Item 10: 2009: "Wit" (4 copies)

Oversize Folder 5: Conference Posters, 2010-2019

Item 1: 2010: "Mind the Gap" (2 copies)

Item 2: 2011: "International Affairs" (2 copies)

Item 3: 2012: "Humanimal" (2 copies)

Item 4: 2013: "A Portrait of an Artist" (1 copy)

Item 5: 2014: "Imagine" (1 copy)

Item 6: 2015: "The Other Half" (1 copy)

Item 7: 2016: "The Art of Science" (2 copies)

Item 8: 2017: "Citizen" (1 copy)

Item 9: 2018: "Truth & Lies" (1 copy)

Item 10: 2019: "What the Future Holds" (2 copies)

Oversize Folder 6: Conference Posters, 2020-

Item 1: 2020: "The Working Classes" (2 copies)

Item 2: 2022: "Communities and the Individual" (11.5 x 15.5 inches; 2 copies)

Item 3: 2022: "Communities and the Individual" (19 x 24.5 inches; 3 copies)

Item 4: 2024: "Horizons of Knowledge"

Photographs :

Separated and placed in the University Archives Photograph Collection file cabinets.

Photograph 20162: Panel, 1979 Conference: John Little, N. Scott Momaday, Dr. Eliot Glassheim, Grace Paley, Robert Bly

Grand Forks Herald photograph by Mike Kiley

Photograph 28957: Panel, 1983 Conference: Carolyn Forche, Czeslaw Milosz, Mike Jacobs

Photograph 28958: 1983 Conference: Czeslaw Milosz

Photograph 28959: 1983 Conference: Joseph Brodsky Book Signing (top) and Joseph Brodsky and Carolyn Forche on a Panel (bottom)

Photograph 28960: 1983 Conference: Richard Howard

Photograph 28961: 1983 Conference: Richard Howard

Photograph 28962: 1983 Conference: Czeslaw Milosz

Photograph 28963: 1983 Conference: Carolyn Forche Book Signing

Photograph 28964: 1999 Conference: Joseph Bruchac Book Signing

Photograph 28965: 1999 Conference: Galway Kinnell Book Signing

Photograph 28966: 1999 Conference: Mark Doty Book Signing

Photograph 28967: 1999 Conference: Peter Matthiessen Book Signing

Photograph 28968: 1999 Conference: Ruhama Veltfort Book Signing

Photograph 28969: 1982 Conference: Susan Sontag on a Panel