Join us for the preeminent literary event on Long Island:

The Second Annual Suffolk County Community College Creative Writing Festival: A Celebration of Teaching and Writing

Friday April 24^th and Saturday April 25^th on the Ammerman campus in Selden, New York. 

The festival will bring together professional writers as well as teachers and students of creative writing from high schools, SCCC, and colleges and universities across our area to discuss creative writing through readings, panel sessions, and workshops from guest authors, faculty, and student writers.

Topics that will be addressed in panel sessions and workshops for teachers, students, and writers: 

• Teaching and research in creative writing

• The craft of creative writing

• Genres of creative writing

• Jobs in creative writing

• Support and resources for creative writers

Confirmed Featured Authors
David Hajdu
Julie Sheehan 

The festival will also celebrate student writers through SCCC Creative Writing Scholarships awarded to noted high school writers and SCCC Creative Writing Awards for noted college writers.  The SCCC Writer’s Showcase will highlight the diversity of SCCC writers through readings of a variety of creative work.

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