{"id":2936,"date":"2025-04-11T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2025-04-21T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:13:22","slug":"the-2025-mccomb-conference-love-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/2025\/04\/the-2025-mccomb-conference-love-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 McComb Conference:\u00a0Love &amp; Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2025\/04\/McComb-Flyer-1.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2025\/04\/McComb-Flyer-1-pdf-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2982\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Miami University Creative Writing Program is hosting the\u00a0<strong><u>2025 Marianne D. McComb Creative Writing\u00a0Conference<\/u><\/strong>,\u00a0with the theme this year of\u00a0Love &amp; Recovery,\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>Friday, April 25th<\/strong>\u00a0at Harris Hall. Award-winning authors will present and lead\u00a0<strong><u>generative writing workshops<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>on nonfiction,\u00a0fiction, and poetry.\u00a0The\u00a0conference keynote speaker is<strong>\u00a0Leslie Jamison,\u00a0<\/strong><em>New York Time<\/em>s best-selling author of\u00a0<strong><u>Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story<\/u><\/strong>, her memoir.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfBma70iQFkzqboTP2BZjJZerD5Pb-mtu0Q0hdoym7k8MzjXQ\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register now<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/LXgMAxyAFdyhStEi7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conference schedule.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Students<\/strong>\u00a0and community members from across the university (and beyond!) are invited to participate,including\u00a0students&#8217;<strong>\u00a0proposals<\/strong>\u00a0to present a scholarly\u00a0paper on a\u00a0<strong><u>student panel or read creative work<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>related to the theme (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfBma70iQFkzqboTP2BZjJZerD5Pb-mtu0Q0hdoym7k8MzjXQ\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">submit<\/a>).\u00a0This one day\u00a0conference\u00a0features writing sessions\u00a0by authors Leslie Jamison,\u00a0distinguished poet\u00a0<strong>Felicia Zamora,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0novelist\u00a0<strong>Conner Bassett.\u00a0<\/strong>Register\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>March 21st<\/strong>\u00a0at 5 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All registrants receive&nbsp;<strong><u>free swag and food<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;throughout the&nbsp;conference&nbsp;day and a 1-day parking&nbsp;pass is available via registration.&nbsp;<strong>Free t-shirt&nbsp;<\/strong>for readers and presenters.&nbsp;See you then!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami University Creative Writing Program is hosting the\u00a02025 Marianne D. McComb Creative Writing\u00a0Conference,\u00a0with the theme this year of\u00a0Love &amp; Recovery,\u00a0on\u00a0Friday, April 25th\u00a0at Harris Hall. Award-winning authors will present and lead\u00a0generative writing workshops\u00a0on nonfiction,\u00a0fiction, and poetry.\u00a0The\u00a0conference keynote speaker is\u00a0Leslie Jamison,\u00a0New York Times best-selling author of\u00a0Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, her memoir.\u00a0Register now.\u00a0Conference schedule.\u00a0\u00a0Students\u00a0and community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7434,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-readings","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}