WEBER STATE UNIVERSITYOGDEN, UTAH

National Undergraduate Literature Conference

What is NULC?

Keynote speakers and readers are world-class authors.

Accepts research essays on American, British, and World Literature.

Accepts creative work such as essays, fiction, poetry, and creative writing in Spanish.

Undergrads only. 25 year tradition. First and best of its

kind.

Featured Authors

• Ray Bradbury • Kenneth Brewer • Ethan Canin • Ron Carlson • Raymond Carver • Alan Cheuse • Chitra Divakaruni • E.L. Doctorow • John Edgar Wideman • Carolyn Forche • Richard Ford • Laura Furman • Carlos Fuentes • Tess Gallagher • George Garrett • Molly Giles • Linda Hogan • James Houston

• Jamaica Kincaid • Bret Anthony

Johnston• Matthew Klam • Maxine Kumin • David Lee • Jeff Long • Norman Mailer • Victor Martinez • Peter Matthiessen • Howard McCord • Larry McMurtry • Antonya Nelson • Tim O’Brien • Robert Olen Butler • Robert Pinsky • Lori Aurielia Williams • Geoffrey Wolff• Tobias Wolff

Past CSI Attendees

2010Josh Marr, Tara Mann, Alicia West, John Johnson, Josh Bridges, Heidi Conley, Amethyst Kruse, Connie Larson, Melissa Sage

2009Chandra Crum, Elizabeth Copp, Ambur Ulrich, Heidi Conley, Andrea Miller, Nancy Chapin

2008Melanie Hoffman, John Heineman, Tandra Fairbanks, Linda Page.

2007Devin Snyder, Tiffini Graham, Lance Pincock, Matthew Roy, Erin Paxton .

2006Chris Harper, Katie Volle, Matt Roy, Kristi Perkins, Devin Snyder.

Why You Should Attend

Present your work to a group of peers and be taken seriously as a writer.

Meet and network with students and faculty from schools across the country.

Associate with published authors.

It looks great on a resume.

We go out to eat!

Submission Guidelines

Participants need to have been an undergraduate student during 2009-10 and not yet have attended graduate school.

Submission must be original work.

Despite the length of submission, presentation of submission cannot exceed 15 minutes.

Original poetry submissions have a three poem minimum and five poem maximum, unless submission exceeds 15 minute reading limit.

Special Criteria for Spanish/Hispanic Submissions:

o Creative submissions can be in Spanish or Englisho Research submissions can be in Spanish or English

Submission Deadline: Submissions will be accepted starting December 15, 2010. The deadline is January 25, 2011 (January 15 to be considered for publication in Metaphor (WSU’s literary journal). Students will be notified of their approval by February 28, 2011.

How to Submit

• Go tohttp://departments.weber.edu/ce/conferences/nulc

and click on the “Submissions” link.

Or Google “National Undergraduate Literature Conference” and find the “Submissions” link.

Once You Have Been Accepted

• Acceptance letters go out in February (usually).

• Bring a copy of your acceptance letter and a copy of your accepted work to Dr. Clark Draney ASAP (732-6810 cdraney@csi.edu )