The 2010 conference will be held at Eastern Kentucky University on March 5-6. Click for 2010 Call for Papers (PDF).
Call for papers closed on December 19, 2009. If you have questions please email scott.vanderploeg@kctcs.edu
2010 Conference Registration Form - Please mail completed forms to:
Dr. Scott Vander Ploeg, Chair of Humanities, Madisonville Community College, 2000 College Drive, Madisonville, KY 42431
Hard Times
Not only in Kentucky but also across the world and in every era, poets, novelists, dramatists and essayists have written about the brutal experience of poverty and oppression and their impact upon the minds, bodies and souls of those who suffer. It is the experience of such hard times, and the literary strategies that have been brought to bear to describe and engage them,that defines this special session topic.
Deadline has passed. Papers selected for the plenary will be presented in a special non-concurrent session on the Friday afternoon of the conference and will automatically be included in the publication selection process for next year's KPR. Those not selected for the Plenary Session will be folded into the conference program.
Graduate essays given at the 2010 conference are considered by a panel of judges for the $100 award and automatic consideration for the KPR.
The Hampton Inn in Richmond, KY is the hotel for the weekend. Rooms are $79/night for March 4 and 5, 2010. Please identify yourselves as KPA attendees when reserving your room.
The hotel is located just off I-75 at Exit 87. It is a straight drive down the by-pass East to EKU. From the hotel, the Perkins Conference Center is a right turn off the by-pass at the Kit Carson Drive intersection. The football stadium will be on the left.
Additional questions about EKU can be directed to the Host Committee via neil.wright@eku.edu
Please contact scott.vanderploeg@kctcs.edu
The 2009 conference was at Kentucky Wesleyan College. To view the flier, including the call for papers, click here.
The 2008 conference was held at the University of Louisville and was heavily affected by snow.