2022 International Creative Writing Conference at Bar-Ilan University
IAWE
Life Writing/The Writing Life
The 2022 International Creative Writing Conference
in memory of Founding Director ShaindyRudoff, z”l
Sunday-Tuesday, May 29-31, 2022, Bar-Ilan University
Sunday, May 29 Brain Science Auditorium (Building 901)
17:45-18:30 Reception
18:30--20:00 Rana Werbin & Beth Ann Fennelly
Reading and in conversation with Marcela Sulak
Welcome: Marcela Sulak, Program Director
Opening Remarks: Evan Fallenberg, Chair, Department of English Literature and Linguistics
Dvar Torah: Daniel Feldman
Monday, May 30 Beck Auditorium (Building410)
10:00-11:30 Translation Workshop with Joanna Chen & Marcela Sulak
13:00-14:30 How We Got Where We Are Now:
Getting started, revising, publishing strategies and stories
Beth Ann Fennelly, Kim Echlin, Ariela Freedman, Ayelet Tsabari
Moderated and introduced by Carra Glatt
15:00-16:30 Hybrid Literature Workshop with Beth Ann Fennelly & Marcela Sulak
17:00-18:00 Andrea Moriah Prize in Poetry, Dave Greber Prize for Social Justice,
Bar Sagi Prize for Fiction, Sandy Nairn Prize for Literary Translation
Musical performance by Daniel Hoffman, on violin
With comments by Wendy Sandler, Antony Joseph, and Evan Fallenberg
18:15-19:00 Reception
19:00-20:30 Ariela Freedman Reading and in conversation with Ilana Blumberg
Tuesday, May 31 Brain Science auditorium (building 901)
10:00-11:30 Poetry Workshop with Jane Medved & Yael Hacohen
13:00-14:30 Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Ariela Freedman & Ilana Blumberg
15:00-16:30 Fiction Workshop Kim Echlin and Ayelet Tsabari
17:00-17:45 The Ilanot Review 13-Year Alumni Retrospective
with founding editor Janice Weizman & staff editor Jane Medved,
readings by Geula Geurts, Joanna Chen, Yoni Hammer-Kossoy, Christine Khoury-Bishara, Shoshana Sarah, Marva Zohar, Sarah Sassoon
The Sixteenth Shaindy Rudoff Memorial Evening
18:00-18:45 Reception
19:00-20:30 Kim Echlin reading and in conversation with Evan Fallenberg
Opening remarks: Marcela Sulak, program director
Dvar Torah: Michael Kramer
Remarks—Hedda Rudoff
We would like to thank the Kaplan Program for American Literature, The Lechter Institute for Literary Research, and The Lewis Family Foundation for International Conferences in the Humanities for their continued support.
All events are free and open to the public. No need to register.
For more information, contact Prof. Marcela Sulak barilan...@gmail.com
Prof. Marcela Sulak, Director
Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing
Bar-Ilan University
52 900 Ramat-Gam, Israel
Israel Association of Writers in English (IAWE)
P.O. Box 39385
6139301 Tel Aviv