ASU Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton

The ASU Writers Conference is an annual event that features guest writers and focuses on fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and non-fiction readings. The Conference is held on campus and is free and open to the public.

The ASU English Department hosts the Conference, which is sponsored by the University. It is funded in part by College Bookstores of America, the ASU Alumni Association, the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, the English Department and Guy and Eva Choate.

The Conference is held every year in honor of the late Elmer Kelton, who wrote more than 60 books, including The Time it Never Rained, The Man Who Rode Midnight and The Good Old Boys. He was a seven-time winner of the Western Writers of America’s (WWA) Spur Award, and the WWA named him the “all-time best Western author.”

The acclaimed Western writer was the first distinguished visiting professor at ASU. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association and the Barbara McCombs/Lon Tinkle Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.

For more information about Art Spiegelman:
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http://www.indiebound.org/author-interviews/spiegelmanart
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/218/projects/oliver/MausbyAO.htm
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344086