Flanked is offering the first of what will be a bi-annual writers conference, designed for the simply powerful reason of sharpening the existing skills of women poets, novelists, short-story writers, and memoirists. We understand the worth of words spilled, hurled, burped, thrown in magic fits of glory from a woman’s pen. We wish to help these words on their journeys to publication, but more importantly, to brilliance.

Held appropriately at Washington D.C.’s Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inn (www.akwaaba.com), the conference offers intimacy, as it holds only 30 seats for participants; legacy, as it encourages the company of women twenty years old and eighty years young; and excellence, as it promotes the reading, writing, and sharing of good literature—that soaked in tradition, that striped of it, and everything squeezed between.

Flanked believes writing is best accomplished, best read, and best discussed when the mood is right. Akwaaba D.C. was designed with literature in mind. The bed & breakfast inn is dedicated to the forces of such masters as Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston. Here, their spirits rest, play, and inspire. What better place to gather in the name of literature?

Conference Dates:
August 4, 2006 – August 6, 2006

Scholarship Application Deadline:
June 9, 2006

General Application Deadline:
June 23, 2006

Location:
Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast Inn
Washington, D.C
www.akwaaba.com

Costs:
$400.00—for participants staying @ Akwaaba
includes correspondence, lodging, lectures, workshops, entertainment, happy hour, yoga class, hot breakfast, and Saturday evening’s dinner

$365.00—for participants staying @ Windsor Inn
includes correspondence, lodging, lectures, workshops, entertainment, happy hour, yoga class, continental breakfast, and Saturday evening’s dinner.

**Conference fees non-refundable beyond July 3, 2006.

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