Authors originally from Nebraska headline writers’ conference at UNL

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Best-selling and award-winning Nebraska natives headline the 2008 Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference, an annual celebration of writing and reading at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Mystery novelist Harley Jane Kozak; Kurt Andersen, author of The New York Times best-seller “Heyday” and host of the radio magazine show Studio 360; memoirist Michael Rips (“The Face of a Naked Lady: An Omaha Family Mystery”); screenwriter and film director Jon Bokenkamp — all authors originally from Nebraska — will be among those conducting writing workshops, giving public readings and discussing their work at the June 14-20 conference.

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Mystery novelist Harley Jane Kozak is a native of Nebraska. (Courtesy photo)

Mystery novelist Harley Jane Kozak is a native of Nebraska. (Courtesy photo)

Registration is open to the general public. Beginning and experienced writers will have an opportunity to work closely with some of today’s successful authors.

The conference faculty also includes:

— Former Lincoln resident and current LA Times columnist Meghan Daum (“The Quality of Life Report” and “My Misspent Youth”)

— Memoirist and Nebraska native Aaron Raz Link, author of “What Becomes You”

— Curtis Sittenfeld, author of The NY Times bestseller “Prep”

— Sean Wilsey, editor-at-large for McSweeney’s and author of the memoir “Oh the Glory of It All”

— Kim Addonizio, National Book Award finalist for “Tell Me,” a poetry collection;

— Hilda Raz, author of several  poetry collections and editor of Prairie Schooner

— Brock Clarke, author of “An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England”

— Anthony Hawley, author of  “Autobiography/Oughtabiography”

— Kelly Braffet, author of the novels “Josie and Jack”and “Last Seen Leaving”

— Jesse Lee Kercheval, winner of the AWP Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize

— Owen King, author of the short-story collection “We’re All in This Together”

The conference also will offer discussions with professionals in the New York publishing industry; individual manuscript consultation also is available.

Register by visiting http://nebraskawriters.unl.edu, or by calling the NSWC office at 472-3067.