The Secondary Section is pleased to welcome you to NCTE's Annual Convention. This year's Secondary Section program is diverse and exciting. Conventiongoers will enjoy the full spectrum of bold new work in poetry, literature, drama, composition, non-fiction and technology.  With over 200 interactive sessions and activities, your greatest challenge will be to decide which secondary sessions to attend!

~Diane Waff, Chair, Secondary Section Steering Committee

The Annual Convention will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and the Marriott River Center Hotel.  Sessions will be held in both places. 

2008 Annual Convention Program - Search the online version-available soon

Secondary Section Speakers  

Jimmy Santiago Baca 
Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 12:30pm
Secondary Section Luncheon

Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent. Like many Southwestern writers, Baca identifies with the land around him and the myths that are part of his culture. His poems reveal an honest, passionate voice and powerful imagery full of the dark jewels of the American Southwest landscape and the chaotic urban landscape woven into rich lyric sprinkled with Spanish.

His books include: The Importance of a Piece of Paper, Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (New Directions), A Place to Stand, Healing Earthquakes, C-Train & Thirteen Mexicans, Black Mesa Poems, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, and Immigrants in Our Own Land. He is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the National Poetry Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for his memoir A Place To Stand, the prestigious International Award.
To purchase tickets for this event, see the convention registration form.

Francine Prose
Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 5:00pm
Secondary Section Get-Together

Francine Prose is the author of the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, as well as fourteen books of fiction, including A Changed Man, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her latest novel for young adults is Goldengrove. A distinguished critic and essayist, she has taught literature and writing for more than twenty years at major universities. A film of her novel, Household Saints, was released in 1993. Prose is a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, for which she has written such controversial essays as “Scent of A Woman’s Ink” and “ I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read.” She lives in New York City.

NCTE Annual Convention Preview will be available online soon!

High School Matters Speakers will be available soon!

Secondary Section/TYCA Joint Session will be available soon!

Register today to attend the 2008 NCTE Annual Convention!

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The 2008 Annual Convention will be held November 20-25, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas.

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