CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Proposed Program - TACWT Conference - U of Houston-Sept. 27-29, 2007
All twenty minute readings
Thursday, September 27
Panel A - 4:00-5:30, Rockwell Room, library
Larry Thomas - Poet Laureate of Texas
Paul Christensen - Texas A&M University
Farnoosh Moshiri - University of Houston
Robert Phillips - University of Houston
6:00-8:00 TACWT Reception hosted by the Honors College of University of Houston Honors Commons
Dinner on your own
Friday, September 28
Panel B - 9:00-10:20, Rockwell Room, library - Chair:
Andrew Geyer - Arkansas Tech University - fiction
Anne Thomas - San Jacinto College - fiction
Terry Dalrymple - Angelo State University - fiction
Joseph OConnell - St. Edwards University - fiction
Panel C - 9:00-10:20, Seminar Room - Chair: Karen Bartlett
Daniel Bartlett - Lamar University - fiction
Cheryl Ware - McNeese University - prose
Sarah Cortez - University of Houston - memoir
Renee Smith - Lamar University - fiction
Panel D - 10:30-11:50, Rockwell Room, library - Chair:
Ted Estess - University of Houston - prose
Chris Ellery - Angelo State University - poetry
William Monroe - University of Houston - memoir
Rebecca Balcarcel - Tarrant County College NE - prose
Panel E - 10:30-11:50, Seminar Room-Chair: Daniel Bartlett
Karen Bartlett - Lamar University
Melissa Morphew - Sam Houston State University - poetry
Moumin Quazi - Tarleton State University - poetry
Charles Dameron - University of Texas, Brownsville - poetry
Lunch: 12:00-1:00: Honors commons
1:00-1:45 Business meeting, Seminar Room
Panel F - 2:00-3:20 Rockwell Room, library - Chair: Melisa Morphew
Sybil Estess - Houston, Texas - poetry
Janet McCann - Texas A&M University - poetry
Francis Neidhardt - Texas A&M University - poetry
Carol Reposa - San Antonio College - poetry
Panel G - 2:00-3:20, Seminar Room - Chair:
Neil Connelly - McNeese University - MFA Program Reaccreditation
Albert Haley - Abilene Christian University - A Teacher and Former Student Dialogue
Shelley Sanders - Abilene Christian Univ. - A Teacher and Former Student Dialogue
Charlotte Renk - Trinity Valley College - Poetry
Panel H - 3:30-4:50 Rockwell Room, library-panel on teaching short fiction
Eric Muirhead - San Jacinto College
David LeMaster - San Jacinto College
Cynthia Shearer - Texas Christian University
Jim Sanderson - Lamar University
Jan Seale
Panel I - 3:00-4:50, Seminar room - Chair:
L.D. Clark - fiction
LaVerne Clark - fiction
Betty Wiesepape - University of Texas, Dallas - fiction
Terri Tucker - Southwest Texas College - prose
7:00-9:00 TACWT Banquet, Honors commons
Speakers: Mark Doty and James Hollis
Saturday, September 29
Panel J - 8:40:-10:20 Honors commons - Chair:
Susan Briante - University of Texas, Dallas - poetry
Ken Jones - Art Institute of Houston - poetry
Dave Parsons - Montgomery College - poetry
Jerry Bradley - Lamar University - poetry
Palmer Hall - St Mary's University - poetry
Final Panel - 10:30-12:00 Honors common
Winners of the student writing competitions
- Carrie Jerrill for “Self Portrait in Three Hairstyles”
- Charles Arnett for “Someone to Listen”
- Landon Moore for “ Sometimes It’s Best to Lose Everything”
- Phonesury Ounekeo for “ Following at His Heel”
- Ryan P. Young for “Goethe’s Lament” and other poems
- Irina Popescu for “ When I Read the City Into Myself” and other poems