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 Highlights from 2011's Successful Fitzgerald Conference 

  
2011 FSF Conference Group Photo  

Maureen Corrigan (keynote speaker), Erika Koss (conference director), Maxine Hong Kingston (honoree), and Pamela York (featured musician) at the 16th annual Fitzgerald Conference on October 22, 2011, hosted by Montgomery College.

  
EEM & DD at FSF Conference Oct. 22, 2011  

Poet and activist E. Ethelbert Miller with MC English Professor Dawn Downing.

  
AS & EK at FSF Conference Oct. 22, 2011  
DC Novelists Amy Stolls and Eugenia Kim signed their books for participants and led successful workshops.  

 

Enjoy the video of the 16th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, featuring talks by Maxine Hong Kingston and Maureen Corrigan; music by Pamela York; a special presentation by Julie Wakeman-Linn; and the short story awards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrvPZ6Sr3Oc&feature=plcp&context=C22837UDOEgsToPDskIGSyDqrg9IcR6tG1jDNN1L

Featured Presentations:

  • Pamela York’s music begins at 10 minutes, including “Mother’s Midnight Hour” composed by Ms. York, followed by Fats Waller’s 1920s tune “Ain’t Misbehavin’”;
  • Julie Wakeman-Linn’s presentation of the book Their Voices, Their Stories begins at 20 minutes;
  • Maureen Corrigan’s keynote speech, “Why I Love The Great Gatsby” begins at 29 minutes and runs until 1 hour, 4 minutes;
  • Susan Richards Shreve introduces Maxine Hong Kingston at 1:17:30;
  • Maxine Hong Kingston’s award speech runs from 1 hour, 23 minutes until the end at 2 hours, 22 minutes

Watch an interview with Maxine Hong Kingston, the 2011 Honoree of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference held at Montgomery College, Rockville campus.  The interview was conducted by Josephine Reed, host of “On the Margin” on WPFW FM radio and “Writers on Writing” on Sirius Satellite Radio.

http://www.youtube.com/user/montgomerycollege?feature=mhee#p/u/6/bOc54j_xfC0

 

Special thanks to Michael Brown, Producer/Director for Montgomery College Television and Carolyn Terry, Montgomery College Dean of Humanities. 

  
 

 Sponsored by F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, Inc. in partnership with 
the City of Rockville and Montgomery College. Sponsors include 
Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation Ltd., and  
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society 

  

 
 

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