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The Salem College Center for Women Writers Invites You To Explore the Transforming Power of Words

About the Center

The Center for Women Writers at Salem College provides an opportunity for women writers to express their creativity in conversation, in workshops, in community and college courses, and through readings, lectures and other special programs. The Center encourages participation by everyone interested in writing, in various genres of expression, and in the publication process.

All readings are free and open to the public with the exception of lunch lectures, where there is a small charge for a buffet lunch for those not on the Salem College meal plan. For information, call the Center office at (336) 721-2739 or e-mail cww@salem.edu.

Many well known authors have spoken at Salem through the Center for Women Writers. Their fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplays and documentaries have won Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, Academy Awards, and a host of other accolades. Their works have been translated into dozens of languages and have been featured on both national and international bestseller lists. Over the past nine years, these esteemed women and men have shared their vast writing experiences and expertise with students as well as members from our community.

Upcoming spring programs will feature the Salem College creative writing faculty: Amy Knox Brown, Ginger Hendricks and Darby Sanders, novelist Zelda Lockhart, children's book author and marine biologist, Kathleen Dudzinski, poet Thylias Moss, and novelist and editor, Roberta Fernandez.

Previous writers include Ellyn Bache, Doris Betts, Janet Burroway, Robert Olen Butler, Ellen Douglas, Rita Dove, Keith Flynn, Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Gilchrist, Marianne Gingher, Gail Godwin, Joy Harjo, Josephine Humphreys, Maxine Kumin, Galway Kinnell, Doug Marlette, Margaret Maron, Demetria Martinez, Jill McCorkle, Sharyn McCrumb, Robert Morgan, Jennifer Niven, Penelope Niven, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Sena Jeter Naslund, Sonia Sanchez, Elizabeth Spencer and Emily Herring Wilson.