DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 30, 2012

Eleventh National Black Writers Conference
Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Thursday, March 29–Sunday, April 1, 2012
CONFERENCE THEME


The Impact of Migration, Popular Culture, and 
the Natural Environment
in the Literature of Black Writers

We invite proposals that examine the representation of history and memory in the works of one of the following writers:

Ishmael Reed

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Nikki Giovanni

John Oliver Killens

Interested faculty, independent researchers and students should submit via email a one to two page proposal with literature references by January 15, 2012 to:

Prof. Brenda M. Greene bgreene@mec.cuny.edu  and
Prof. David Hatchett, Dhat8758@aol.com

Notification of acceptance will be sent to presenters by February 15, 2012.

For more information visit www.nationalblackwritersconference.org