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| | A Report on the Southern Women Writers Conference *Writers Write -- The IWJ* |
 | | Nikki Giovanni, poet, writer, lecturer, activist, and educator has been named woman of the year by three different magazines and has received numerous honorary doctorates and awards, including the Langston Hughes Award and the NAACP Image Award for Love Poems. |
 | | Writer, teacher, musician, and editor Susan Ketchin (author of The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction as well as many reviews, articles, and essays) teaches at Duke University and is presently working on a book about the role of traditional music in southern literature. |
 | | Bringing together the best authors and scholars of the region, the Southern Women Writers Conference remembers the oral traditions of the past, sets the stage for the study of an often overlooked segment of great American literature, and opens the way for the creative accomplishments of the future. |
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