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Special thanks to Walter E. Dakin Fellow Caitlin Horrocks for sharing her experience at the 2012 Sewanee Writers' Conference. As I first arrived at Sewanee and found my dorm room, I realized that I was two doors down from a roommate I’d lived with eight years earlier in Arizona. I…
Special thanks to Walter E. Dakin Fellow Greg Brownderville for sharing his experience at the 2012 Sewanee Writers' Conference. On the final Sunday morning of the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as I told my delightful new friends goodbye, I realized how close we had become and how impossibly rich the…
Special thanks to Walter E. Dakin Fellow Claire Vaye Watkins for sharing her experience at the 2012 Sewanee Writers' Conference. I was able to attend the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow. My time up on the Cumberland Plateau offered no small amount of artistic nourishment.…