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Show Writers' conference organizers to meet Friday at Kimball An informal meeting to form the committees that will produce W liters at Work, a summer writers conference confer-ence to be held in Park City July 8 to 13, is scheduled for FYiday at 5:30 p.m. at the Kimball Art Center. James Thomas, director and writer in residence for the conference, confer-ence, said the gathering is for anyone who has been working to put the conference together and those who would like to participate in some capacity. Thomas said the conference will "fulfill a need for writers both published and aspiring to get ' together and discuss issues and problems they face in their craft. "We want a writers conference of significance to be held annually in the West, and what better place than Park City. The location will offer the families of participating writers a chance to take advantage of the recreational activities Park City has to offer in the summer." Four day-long workshops in fiction, fic-tion, poetry, creative non-fiction and women's writing will be held from July 8 to 11. The workshops will be offered for credit or non-credit through the University of Utah's Division of Continuing Education. Seminars on contemporary issues are scheduled for July 11 to 13. Among visiting writers expected to attend the event are Harriet Doerr, author of the 1984 American Book Award-winning novel Stones for Ibarra; Bernard Taper, New Yorker magazine staff writer; Gwen Head, a poet and editor and publisher of Dragon Gate Press in Seattle; and Ron Hansen, author of the novels Desperadoes and The Assassination of Jesse James. For more information call 649-8882. |