Panel: Clovers, Bees, and Reveries

UND Memorial Ballroom

This audiovisual recording from March 18, 1986 as part of the 17th annual UND Writing Conference: “To Make a Prairie” features Ellen Gilchrist, Maxine Kumin, and Rebecca Hill forming the panel “Clovers, Bees, and Reveries.” The panelists discuss the benefits and burdens of writers' conferences on writers, the transfer of life into art, growing up as readers, balancing their writing with raising children, feminist writing in the United States, moving between fiction and poetry, writing characters, advice to aspiring writers, balancing isolation and awareness, taking risks and finding motivation when starting out as writers, writing habits, working under deadlines, and compromise.