Panel: Directions
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
19-3-1980 12:00 PM
End Date
19-3-1980 1:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 19, 1980, as part of the 11th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Storytellers," June Jordan, Leslie Silko, and James Crumley participate in a panel called “Directions.” The panelists discuss their writing and publishing career directions, challenging forms of writing with their new work, the strong connection between poetry and live performance in theater or film, working with directors and studios in the adaptation of written works to film, how they approach genre, their advice to aspiring young writers, approaching serious and important themes in otherwise humorous writing, conflation of fact and fiction, the emergence of politics in writing, writing from a gendered point of view, writing gender, their thoughts on literary criticism, fiction written by critics, and writing book reviews.
Panel: Directions
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 19, 1980, as part of the 11th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Storytellers," June Jordan, Leslie Silko, and James Crumley participate in a panel called “Directions.” The panelists discuss their writing and publishing career directions, challenging forms of writing with their new work, the strong connection between poetry and live performance in theater or film, working with directors and studios in the adaptation of written works to film, how they approach genre, their advice to aspiring young writers, approaching serious and important themes in otherwise humorous writing, conflation of fact and fiction, the emergence of politics in writing, writing from a gendered point of view, writing gender, their thoughts on literary criticism, fiction written by critics, and writing book reviews.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1980/day3/3
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.