All Write Columbia Reading and Closing Reception

All Write Columbia, our Inaugural Nonfiction Writing Conference, celebrates the conclusion of five days of workshops with selected short readings and a wine and cheese reception, open to the public and free of charge on Sunday, October 23, from 2:00-4:00pm.

For this small and focused writers intensive, which specialized in nonfiction, attendees were selected from applications last summer. The chosen applicants gathered for a combination of virtual presentations and in-person workshops and talks by critically acclaimed memoirists, agents, editors and marketing experts who discussed both the craft and the business of writing essays, biography, memoir, and narrative nonfiction.

Short readings of recent work will be shared by 13 conference participants as well as readings by author and conference director Donna Kaz and author and workshop leader Pramila Venkateswaran.

Participants in the conference are Even Christine Gardiner, Nandi Rose Levine, Adrienne Gans, Sheryl Boris-Schacter, Cristobal Morales, Abigail Eisley, Frances Duntz, Cheryl Roberts, Adriana Tampasis, Robin Catalan, Casey Walsh, Kelli Huggins, Rosemary Werrett, and Emily Rubin.