Keynote speakers

• Jean M. Auel
• Christopher Reich
• Adrienne Barbeau
• James D. Houston
• Dorothy Allison
• Tod Goldberg
• Betty Auchard

Editors

• Donna Levin
• Becky Levine
• Jana McBurney-Lin
• Elisabeth Tuck

Faculty Authors

• Martha Alderson
• Matilda Butler
• Martha Engber
• Kate Evans
• Kelly Harrison
• April Kihlstrom
• Joyce Kreig
• Lee Lofland
• Jas Lonnquist
• D.P. Lyle, MD
• Tom Mach
• Edie Matthews
• Phyllis Mattson
• Linda Joy Myers
• David Henry Sterry
• Penny Warner
• Maralys Wills

Agents

• Andrea Brown
• Arielle Eckstut
• Zoe Fishman
• Ashley Grayson
• Carolyn Grayson
• Sally van Haitsma
• Michael Larsen
• Elizabeth Pomada
• Stephanie Lee
• Jean V. Naggar
• Elise Proulx
• Ken Sherman
• Charlotte Cook

Publishers

• KOMENAR
• Crown Publishers
• Three Rivers Press
• Picador USA
• Arcadia Publishing
• Stephens Press, LLC

All 2006 Writing Contest winners

The Charles & Lois Cook (KOMENAR Publishing) Writing Contest  

• First Place: Lee Doyle for "Tristes"
• Runner-up:  Collyn Justus for "Care and Feeding of a Dead Tiger"
• Runner-up:  Luanne Oleas for "Pilots and Priests"
• Honorable Mention went to: Janet Goddard, Judy Delaney, R.M. Ward, Richard Brost, Tyna Burford
• Significant Potential went to: Cynthia Furze, Kathleen Wyland, Martin Sorensen, J.G. O'Reilly, Kevin McNeil, Kathleen Jalapour, Giselle Stancic, Luane Oleas, Jack Erickson, Brian David Granatir, Mysti Berry

East of Eden Writing Contest

Short Story category:

• First place: Elizabeth Banning for "The Shape of Smoke"
• Second place; Willard Thompson for "Valentine's Day"
• Third place: Robert J. Miller for "Casualties of War"

Screenplay category:

• First place: Brian David Granatir for "The Ice Melts"
• Second place: Pat Hanson for "Hopeless Heterosexual? : The Tenure Trap"
• Third place: Mysti Berry for "St. John"

Nonfiction category:

• First place: Pat Tyler for "War Bike"
• Second place: Chuck Kensler for "Purple Plum in a Dark Green Sky"
• Third place: Betsy Fasbinder for "Smell the Coffee"

Poetry category:

• First place: Deanne Gwinn for "Breakers" / "Cypress" / "Estuary"
• Second place: Robert J. Miller for "Pacific Time" / "On a Train Called the City of San Francisco"
• Third place: Richard A. Burns for "TV is Somethin' "

Children's / Young Adult Fiction category:

• First place: Robert J. Miller for "A Poem for Jimmy"
• Second place: Cynthia Furze for "Gwion Bach and the Cauldron of Kerridwen"
• Third place: Collyn Justus for "Care and Feeding of a Dead Tiger"

Scholarship Programs:

Basil Stevens Memorial Writing Contest

• First place: Daniel P. Smith
• Second place: Kathleen Jalalpour

Dan Niemi Memorial Writing Contest

• Winner: Michael Hahn

WritersTalk Challenge

• Winner: Meredy Amyx