Every year since 1998, the Ohio Literacy Resource Center celebrates the outstanding writing accomplishments of adults who are participants in Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) programs throughout the state of Ohio.

This year’s Ohio Writers’ Conference will be held at the Columbus Marriott NW on May 14, 2010 and will feature performer and poet Ray McNiece. McNiece has earned a national reputation as a poet and performer for almost two decades through his solo theater pieces, his poetry and music shows, his captaining of 2 National Poetry Slam Championship teams, his "edutaining" children's shows and workshops, and his yearly country-wide tours of performance poems, stories and songs.

The OLRC invites ABLE students to submit original writing for review. All writing genres are acceptable. The submissions, however, must be original. Original means that the work or any portion of the work must not be copied from any source. Accepted submissions are published in a softbound book, Beginnings. Students whose work is accepted are invited to attend the day-long Ohio Writers’ Conference, along with their teacher and one guest.

Submit your entry at:
http://literacy.kent.edu/beginnings/writersconference.html

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