CONFERENCE PRICING

Each package has different pricing for members and nonmembers. Want to join? Need to renew

your membership? Please do so BEFORE registering for this event to enjoy member pricing.

Entire Event: Includes seven nights, twenty meals, all workshops, critiques, salons, open readings

and book fairs. Check in Friday, July 15 (beginning at 2:00 pm) and check out Friday, July 22 by

10:00 am. Member rate: $1,325; Non-member Rate: $1,450.

Long Weekend Package (Friday-Monday): Includes three nights (including Opening Night), nine

meals (dinner Friday through lunch on Monday). Check in Friday, July 15 (beginning at 2:00 pm)

and check out Monday, July 18 (out of room by 10:00 am). Registrants can attend all workshops

and other conference activities on Monday (check-out day). Member rate $675; Non-member

rate: $750.

Weekday Package (Monday-Friday): Includes four nights and five days, twelve meals (Monday

lunch through Friday breakfast). Check in Monday, July 18 from 8:00 am on, and check out Friday,

July 22 by 10:00 am. Member rate $800; Non-member rate: $875.

Commuter Daily Rate Package: Includes all workshops and activities for that day, as well as

Opening Night admission, Friday, July 15. Can choose registration with meals (breakfast, lunch,

dinner) or without. To register for multiple days, contact us. Member rate $100/day (no meals),

$140/day (with three meals); Non-member rate: $115/day (no meals), $155/day (with three

The IWWG Summer

Conference is our

signature event. This

summer we celebrate

our 39th year of coming together, with over

thirty workshops ranging from three to five

days in length and spanning fiction, poetry,

memoir/personal narrative, screenwriting,

playwriting, writing as performance, social

justice, and mind/body/spirit. Critique

sessions are offered in fiction, poetry, and

nonfiction, and five 90-minute salons will be

offered this year, with facilitated discussion

on such topics as how to start submission

parties and how to

build magical realism

into your work. The

week’s events will also

include two book

fairs and nightly open readings. To learn

more about us, visit our website at

www.iwwg.wildapricot.org.

39th Annual IWWG Summer Conference Muhlenberg College

Allentown, Pennsylvania

July 15-22, 2016

The International

Women’s Writing Guild

The 39th Annual

Summer Conference

July 15-22, 2016

Muhlenberg College

Allentown, Pennsylvania

The IWWG, founded in 1976, is a network for the personal and

professional empowerment of women through writing. No portfolio

is required. The IWWG has established a remarkable record of

achievement in the publishing world, as well as in circles where

lifelong learning and personal transformation are valued for their

own sake. The IWWG nurtures and supports holistic thinking by

recognizing the logic of the heart—the ability to perceive the subtle

interconnections between people, events and emotions— alongside

conventional logic. To learn more about us, visit our website at

www.iwwg.wildapricot.org.

Building a community of women who write.

I felt like I was accepted into

a community, respected for

who I am at the core. I went

in wondering who I was and

came out knowing I am a

poet and a writer.

- 2015 Summer

Conference participant

Workshop Leaders

Susan Tiberghien Pamela Varkony Anne Walradt Amy Wu Memoir/Critique Social Justice Fiction Critique Memoir

Kelly DuMar Lisa Freedman Janice Gary June Gould Dorothy Randall Gray Marj Hahne Judy Huge Lisa Hase-Jackson Writing as Performance Social Justice/Salon Memoir Poetry Memoir Poetry/Critique Critique Poetry

Judith Prest Paula Scardamalia Eunice Scarfe Linda Leedy Schneider Myra Shapiro Miriam Stein Marylou Streznewski Carren Strock Mind/Body/Spirit Fiction Memoir Poetry Poetry Social Justice Mind/Body/Spirit Mind/Body/Spirit

Lisa Acerbo Judy Adourian Lynne Barrett Suzi Banks Baum Linda Bergman Heather Cariou Mary Beth Coudal Joy Ross Davis Fiction Playwriting/Critique Fiction Memoir Screenwriting Memoir Publishing Memoir/Publishing

Geri Lennon Jessica Mehta Shawndra Miller Maureen Murdock Joan Kane Nichols Cathleen O’Connor Kathleen A. O’Shea Jan Phillips Social Justice Publishing Social Justice Memoir Fiction Fiction Memoir Mind/Body/Spirit

Salon Leaders

Opening Night Keynote Address: Nancy Giles

NANCY GILES is an actor, comedian, and writer, with two Emmy Awards for her on-air

commentaries on the acclaimed "CBS News Sunday Morning." She toured with Chicago’s famed

Second City comedy troupe; was Jay Thomas’ sidekick on his “Morning Show” on Jammin’ 105 in

New York City; and was the announcer and co-host of the cult favorite "Fox After

Breakfast." Nancy's written four solo shows and is working on a collection of true stories called

"Notes of a Negro Neurotic."

Giles has offered her social and political perspectives on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews,"

"Melissa Harris-Perry," "All In with Chris Hayes," "Politics Nation with Al Sharpton," and "Up

with Steve Kornacki." On topics from politics and race to pop culture and body image, Giles says, “I

want to make people laugh and I want to entertain them, but I also want to provoke thought and

discussion.” Giles is a funny, perceptive, and provocative observer of today’s world.

Anne Anthony B. Lynn Goodwin Lisa Irish Lisa Freedman Elizabeth Kann Alison Ruth

OPEN READINGS

One of the most beloved traditions of the IWWG Summer

Conference is our nightly Open Readings. Every night (except

Opening Night and Monday, which we take off for a much needed

rest!) conference attendees gather to hear their peers read.

Readings are three minutes in length (about 250-300 words),

rigorously timed and enthusiastically received. If you’ve never

read your work aloud before, this is the time to do it: in a relaxed,

inviting and supportive

atmosphere.