UNT Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference - Pulitzers: A Century of Excellence - People, Politics and Public Affairs

This summer’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference will feature three Pulitzer recipients — Gilbert King, winner of the prize for biography in 2013; Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian American to win a Pulitzer; and Margo Jefferson, winner of a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism — will be the keynote speakers. The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference has been hosted every year since 2005 by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, part of the University of North Texas’ Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism. Founded by George Getschow, the Mayborn School’s Writer-in-Residence and a former Wall Street Journal reporter, the conference takes place at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas.

 

The conference includes a variety of writing contests for anyone from high school students to Pulitzer prize winning professionals, who receive hand-made trophies, more than $26,000 in cash awards and have their work published in Mayborn's journal, Ten Spurs, or anthology, Best American Newspaper Narratives.