38th:  Writing the Body

March 27-31, 2007

Stuart Dybek, Mary Gaitskill, Anne Harris (artist), Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Michelle Richmond, Miller Williams (Presidential Speaker)

37th:  Border Crossings

March 21-25, 2006

Barry Lopez, Mark Salzman, Sam Pickering, Robin Magowan, Nance van Winckel, Fan Shen, Carol Gilligan, Branca Vilela

36th:  Hope/Illusion

March 29-April 2, 2005

Chris Belden, Carolyn Forché, Charles Johnson, Marilyn Nelson, Kathleen Norris, Jane Urquhart, Jane Varley

35th:  35th Anniversary Writers Conference

March 23-27, 2004

Elmaz Abinader, Tony Buba, Annie Dawid, Louise Erdrich (Presidential Lecturer), Albert Goldbarth, Tony Khalife, Marilynne Robinson, Mark Turcotte, Larry Woiwode

34th:  Art & Science

March 24-29, 2003

Natalie Angier, Rafael Campo, Devra Davis, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Thomas Disch, Ted Mooney, Pattiann Rogers, Oliver Sacks, Julia Whitty

33rd:  Explorations

March 18-22, 2002

Kate Daniels, Sharon Doubiago, Eddy Harris, Ursula Hegi, Bill Holm, David Treuer, Sara Wheeler

32nd:  Worklife/Lifework

March 18-23, 2001

Peter Carey, Gary Fisketjon, Kent Haruf, Natasha Tretheway, Joy Williams, Frederick Wiseman, Ofelia Zepeda

31st:  Writing War

March 20-24, 2000

John Balaban, Eavan Boland, Tessa Bridal, Robert Olen Butler, Helen Fremont, Arnold Isaacs, Ha Jin, Louis Simpson, Barbara Sonneborn

30th:  Expressing the Sacred

March 16-19, 1999

Joseph Bruchac, Robert Clark, Mark Doty, Galway Kinnell, Victor Masayesva Jr., Peter Matthiessen, Ruhama Veltfort, Terry Tempest Williams

29th:  The Use of History

March 24-27, 1998

Toi Derricotte, Patricia Hampl, John Hanson, Paulette Jiles, Arnost Lustig, Josef Skvorecky, August Wilson, Susan Yuzna

28th:  Writing Nature: The Nature of Writing

March 18-22, 1997

Susan Griffin, Linda Hogan, Garrett Hongo, Bill McKibben, Bill Morrissey, Annick Smith, David Treuer, Meeka Walsh

27th:  Living in America

April 9-12, 1996

Rosellen Brown, Jon Hassler, Sydney Lea, Li-Young Lee, David Mura, Susan Power, Pattiann Rogers

26th:  States of the Art

March 21-25, 1995

Sherman Alexie, Gordon Henry Jr., Yusef Komunyakaa, Bharati Mukherjee, Tim O’Brien, Sharon Olds, Marge Piercy

25th:  Homelands

April 6-9, 1994

Jonis Agee, Sandra Benitez, Adrian Louis, John Stone, Jervey Tervalon, Larry Watson, James Whitehead

24th:  La Literatura: Contemporary Latino/Latina Writing

March 24-26, 1993

Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo, Martín Espada, Francisco Goldman, Luisa Valenzuela, Ed Vega

23rd:  A Festival of Publishers and Writers

March 17-20, 1992

Carol Bly, Diane Glancy, Linda Hasselstrom, William Kloefkorn, Ted Kooser, Lon Otto, David Pichaske, Maura Stanton, Thom Tammaro, Mark Vinz

22nd:  The Literatures of Canada

March 18-22, 1991

David Arnason, Ven Begamudre, Di Brandt, Roch Carrier, Madeleine Gagnon, Kristjana Gunnars, W.P. Kinsella, Dorothy Livesay, Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, David Williamson

21st:  The Literature of Immigration

March 20-23, 1990

Karen Karbo, James McAuley, Reginald McKnight, Lore Segal, Ron Vossler, Will Weaver, Solveig Zempel

20th:  Circle of Many Colors

April 3-7, 1989

Gretel Ehrlich, Richard Ford, William Least Heat-Moon, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, David Solheim, Tobias Wolff

19th:  Parent and Child

March 22-26, 1988

Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Patrick Hemingway, Adam Hochschild, Mona Simpson, W.D. Snodgrass

18th:  Writers of the Purple Sage

March 17-21, 1987

Ralph Beer, Joy Harjo, Robert Kammen, Larry McMurtry, Paul St. Pierre, Elizabeth Tallent, James Welch

17th:  To Make a Prairie

March 17-21, 1986

Raymond Carver, Ellen Gilchrist, Rebecca Hill, Maxine Kumin, Jay McInerney, Ernest Mickler, Robert Ward, John Yount

16th:  Narratives

March 18-22, 1985

Ann Beattie, Sandra Birdsell, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Alex Haley, Barry Hannah, Norman Mailer, Thomas McGrath

15th:  1984

March 19-24, 1984

Harlan Ellison, Gay Haldeman, Joel Haldeman, Robert Silverberg, Jane Sturgeon, Theodore Sturgeon, Luisa Valenzuela, Roger Zelazny

14th:  The Centennial Year

March 21-23, 1983

Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, Richard Howard, Bobbie Ann Mason, James Alan McPherson, James Merrill, Czelaw Milosz

13th:  International Writers

March 22-26, 1982

Ellen Gilchrist, Thomas McGrath, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Susan Sontag, Arturo Vivante, Derek Walcott

12th:  Voices

March 16-20, 1981

Esther Broner, Robert Creeley, Etheridge Knight, Denise Levertov, Ntozake Shange, Richard Wilbur

11th:  The Storyteller

March 17-21, 1980

Harry Crews, Selo Black Crow, James Crumley, James Dickey, June Jordan, Richard Kostelanetz, Leslie Silko

10th:  Epitomes, Bombast, and Climaxes

March 19-23, 1979

Edward Albee, Robert Bly, Frederick Exley, N. Scott Momaday, Grace Paley, Megan Terry

9th:  The Mirror and the Lamp

March 20-23, 1978

John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, William Burroughs, Ring Lardner Jr., Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty

8th:  Literature and Film

March 21-25, 1977

Harlan Ellison, George Garrett, John Houseman, Larry McMurtry, Marcel Ophuls, Joan Tewkesbury

7th:  New Journalism and the Novel

March 15-19, 1976

Truman Capote, Ed McClanahan, B.J. Phillips, Alix Kates Shulman, Larry Woiwode, Tom Wolfe

6th:  Spirit of Place

March 17-21, 1975

John Barth, Wendell Berry, William Gass, Ken Kesey, N. Scott Momaday, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker

5th:  City Lights in North Dakota

March 18-22, 1974

Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Peter Orlovsky, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder

4th:  Women in the Arts

March 12-16, 1973

Gwendolyn Brooks, Carolyn Kizer, Myrna Lamb, Mary McCarthy, Diane Wakoski, Sylvia Wilkinson

3rd:  American Indian Writers Conference

March 20-23, 1972

Frederick Manfred, Ed McGaa, Thomas McGrath, Simon Ortiz, Jerome Rothenberg, James Welch, Ray Young Bear

2nd:  Northern Plains Writers Conference

February 16-19, 1971

David Evans, Roland Flint, Lois P. Hudson, Richard Lyons, Thomas McGrath, John Milton, Antony Oldknow

1st:  Southern Writers Conference on the Arts

April 21-25, 1970

William Anderson, John Carr, Fred Chappel, Jesse Hill Ford, George Garrett, Peter Taylor, James Whitehead