Just finished attending the fiction workshop portion of this year’s Interlochen writer’s conference, with eleven other students. The four-day workshop was taught by Keith Taylor, writer and poet, and head of U of M’s creative writing program. He is also the co-ordinator of the annual Bear River Writers’ Conference, held at Camp Michigania on Walloon Lake.
In the evening there were readings and gatherings with other writers. Attendees are from all walks of life, but the one thing they share in common: the need to write, whether it be fiction, poetry, or memoir.
Left: Instructors Patty McNair and Anne-Marie Oomen.
Right: Instructor Dr. Terry Blackhawk talking with students.
Keith Taylor grilling brats, burgers, and veggie burgers and brats for attendees of the annual cookout night at IAA Writer’s Conference.
Bill Corbett enjoys spending time with his wife and adult children, writing, photography, and watching sunsets. He graduated from U of Michigan in 1969, and was molded, as many of that era were, to view the world a certain, radical way. In 1976 he saw the light and voted for Gerald Ford, angry at the way the left portrayed that good, decent, and underrated President. Though his political views are now conservative, he makes an honest attempt to examine all side of issues and hopes the citizenry will do that as well. He disdains the politics of discrediting messengers rather than the message.