Oz Conference Registration Info

At last...the registration information for Oz: The Books Conference (May 14-16, 2010) is now available!  Go to  Arne Nixon Center's website to download the form, read about the marvelous line-up of speakers, or to see the conference schedule.

Register Early! Discounted prices available for early registration, ANCA members, IWOC members, and students. Call 559.278.8116 for more information.

Lodging Information:
The Piccadilly Inn-University offers an “Oz Conference” rate of $98, per night, per room (includes tax and continental breakfast). Reserve early because room rate will increase after 4/14/2009. Call (800) HOTEL-US (468-3587) or (559) 224-4200

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Fresno

The Arne Nixon Center and The International Wizard of Oz Club invite everyone to a national Oz conference, “Oz: The Books,” May 14-16, 2010, on the Fresno State campus.

Featured speakers will include Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked; Michael Patrick Hearn, author of The Annotated Wizard of Oz; John Fricke, co-author of The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic; Kathleen Krull, author of The Road to Oz: Twists, Bumps, and Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum; and graphic novelist Eric Shanower, author/artist of Adventures in Oz.

The conference will feature a musical, “Time Again in Oz,” produced by the Fresno State Theatre Arts Department and directed by J. Daniel Herring. Playwright Suzan L. Zeder, who based this play on the third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, will also be a speaker.