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2017 Conference:

Diane Husic, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Sally Zaino, Mary Heather Noble

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Joyce Hinnefeld and Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Having been to NYC conferences, I found the Moravian conference much more personal. All the attendees, including the keynote speakers, were easily accessible. The session dialogues were honest and straight to the point. It was a pleasure to have this opportunity to network among such talented writers of varied genres.”

“I loved the atmosphere . . . the enthusiasm . . . the camaraderie.”

“The strength of the conference is intimacy and connection. Thank you!”

The 2018 Moravian College Writers’ Conference: Writing about Health: Activism, Advocacy, and Storytelling

March 16-17, 2018
on the campus of Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA

A conference for

with a focus on health and healthcare.

Keynote Speaker: Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Marie Myung-Ok Lee"The Writer as Failed Doctor--and a Doctor's Best Companion”

Marie Myung-Ok Lee is an acclaimed Korean-American writer and author of the novel Somebody's Daughter. Her next novel, on the future of medicine, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. She graduated from Brown University and was a Writer in Residence there before she began teaching fiction at Columbia University's Writing Division. She has been a guest speaker at Yale Medical School and Columbia’s Narrative Medicine Program, and was a TEDMED Front Line Scholar.

She has written about a range of health topics, including advocacy for her son and other children with autism, and her stories and essays have been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Guernica, and The Guardian, among others. She was the first Fulbright Scholar to Korea in creative writing and has received many honors for her work, including an O. Henry honorable mention, the Best Book Award from the Friends of American Writers, and a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts fiction fellowship. She has been a Yaddo and MacDowell Colony fellow and has served as a judge for the National Book Award and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. In addition, Ms. Lee is a founder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Approved for 3.5 Contact Hours for RNs.

Thanks to Galvanized Media for support of this year's conference.