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Sewanee Writers' Conference
The Sewanee Writers' Conference is a writers' conference held every summer on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference was started in 1989 by founding director Wyatt Prunty and the current director is Leah Stewart. The conference is funded largely by an endowment from the estate of acclaimed American playwright Tennessee Williams. The conference takes place over twelve days, during which participants attend writing workshops, readings, panel presentations, lectures on the craft of poetry, fiction, and playwriting, and numerous social gatherings. Admission Admission to the conference is competitive and is decided through a formal application process. All applicants who are accepted to the conference have a portion of their expenses underwritten by the estate of Tennessee Williams. Poets, non-fiction, and fiction writers who have published at least one full-length book, whether through a legitimate small press or a major publishing house, are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Writers' Conferences
This is a list of worldwide authors' conferences for writers of all genres. Europe Bulgaria * Sozopol Fiction Seminars – Sozopol France * Paris Writers Retreat – Paris Iceland * Iceland Writers Retreat – Reykjavík Ireland * BooksGoSocial Dublin Writers Conference – Fiction & Non Fiction – Dublin Portugal * Disquiet International Literary Program – Lisbon United Kingdom * Festival of Writing – York * Historical Novel Society Conference – September, London * Milford Writer's Workshop – science fiction writers; various locations * Winchester Writers' Conference – Winchester * Swanwick Writers' Summer School – the UK's longest-running writers' school * Writers Holiday North America Bahamas * Salt Cay Writers Retreat – Salt Cay, Bahamas Canada * Shuswap International Writers' Festival – Salmon Arm, British Columbia * Surrey International Writers' Conference – Surrey, British Columbia * Ontario Writers' Conference – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Jarman
Mark F. Jarman (born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky) is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of '' The Reaper'' throughout the 1980s. Centennial Professor of English, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University, he is the author of eleven books of poetry, three books of essays, and a book of essays co-authored with Robert McDowell. He co-edited the anthology '' Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism'' with David Mason. Jarman's awards for poetry include a Joseph Henry Jackson Award, three grants from the NEA, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. His book ''The Black Riviera'' won the 1991 Poets' Prize. ''Questions for Ecclesiastes'' was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and ''The Nation'' magazine. ''Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems'' won the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan O'Brien (playwright)
Dan O’Brien (born 1974) is an American playwright, poet, essayist, and librettist. His most prominent works have been the play ''The Body of an American'' and the poetry collection ''War Reporter''. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2015–16. His most recent play, ''The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage,'' is the winner of the 2018 PEN America Award for Drama. Career O'Brien's plays include ''The Three Christs of Ypsilanti'', ''The Cherry Sisters Revisited'', ''The Voyage of the Carcass'', ''The Dear Boy'', ''The House in Hydesville'', ''Moving Picture'', ''Key West'', ''Am Lit'', ''Lamarck'', ''The Last Supper Restoration'', ''The Angel in the Trees'', ''"Will You Please Shut Up?"'', and ''The Disappearance of Daniel Hand''. His work has been produced by Second Stage Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geva Theatre Center, Page 73 Productions, The Produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin McGraw
Erin McGraw (born 1957) is an American author, known primarily for works of fiction, both short stories and novels. Her generous, genial works often depicts familial relations with cold-eyed optimism. Work Her first book, the story collection ''Bodies at Sea'' (1989), features a range of characters from a coal miner to college professor who engage in surprising actions. Her next story collection, ''Lies of the Saints'' (1996), which explores themes including marriage and parenthood through quirky stories about endearing misfits, was described by ''The New York Times'' as a "gratifyingly substantial" work featuring "savvy, sardonic women". ''The Good Life'' (2004), which features characters battling daily demons of envy, fear, and disillusionment while somehow maintaining an abiding optimism. Her novels include ''The Baby Tree'' (2002), ''The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard'' (2008), which draws on her own family history to describe the price one woman pays for independence, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel ''Charming Billy'' she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Life McDermott was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended St. Boniface School in Elmont, New York, on Long Island (1967), Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead (1971), and the State University of New York at Oswego, receiving her BA in 1975, and received her MA from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. She has taught at UCSD and American University, has been a writer-in-residence at Lynchburg College and Hollins College in Virginia, and was lecturer in English at the University of New Hampshire. Ms. McDermott is currently the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Her short stories have appeared in ''Ms.'', ''Redbook'', '' Mademoiselle'', ''The New Yorker' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill McCorkle
Jill Collins McCorkle (July 7, 1958 Lumberton, North Carolina) is an American short story writer and novelist. She graduated from University of North Carolina, in 1980, where she studied with Max Steele, Lee Smith, and Louis D. Rubin. She also attended Hollins College now Hollins University with Lee Smith where she received her MA. She taught at Tufts University, University of North Carolina, Duke University, Harvard University and Bennington College. She teaches at North Carolina State University. Awards *1993 New England Booksellers Award *2000 Dos Passos Prize The John Dos Passos Prize is an annual literary award given to American writers. The Prize was founded at Longwood University in 1980 and is meant to honor John Dos Passos John Roderigo Dos Passos (; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) w ... *2018 Featured speaker at the Monroe Scholars Book and Authors luncheon. Works * * * * * * * * * * Stories available online "Going Away Shoes" ''Blackbird' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Messud
Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel '' The Emperor's Children'' (2006). Early life Born in Greenwich, Connecticut,van Gelder, Lawrence. "Footlights", ''The New York Times'', January 2, 2003 Section E, p. 1 Messud grew up in the United States, Australia, and Canada, returning to the United States as a teenager. Messud's mother is Canadian, and her father is a Pied-noir from French Algeria. She was educated at the University of Toronto Schools and Milton Academy. She did undergraduate and graduate studies at Yale University and Cambridge University, where she met her spouse James Wood. Messud also briefly attended the MFA program at Syracuse University. Career Messud's debut novel, '' When The World Was Steady'' (1995), was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1999, she published her second book, ''The Last Life'', about three generations of a French-Algerian family. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is an American author and former lawyer. Biography Marzano-Lesnevich received their B.A. from Columbia University, M.F.A. from Emerson College, and J.D. from Harvard Law School. Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of ''The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir,'' which received the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography, the 2018 Chautauqua Prize, the 2019 Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in nonfiction, and was optioned by HBO to develop into a limited series. The book recounts the story of Marzano-Lesnevich being assigned to defend a pedophile and child murderer in Louisiana who killed and likely molested a six-year-old boy in 1992, and had their faith against the death penalty shaken after watching the man's videotaped confession. Marzano-Lesnevich is currently a professor at Bowdoin College Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Martin (poet)
Charles Martin (born 1942, New York City) is a poet, critic and translator. He grew up in the Bronx. He graduated from Fordham University and received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He now teaches at the City University of New York, Syracuse University, and thStonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine Martin's specialty is Latin poetry. Martin is also a New Formalist, and was an original faculty member of the West Chester University Poetry Conference. Honors and awards He received the Poetry Foundation'Beth Hokin Prizein 1970. His poem, "Against a Certain Kind of Ardency," was in the 2001 Pushcart Prize collection, and in 2005 he won the American Academy of Arts and LettersAward for Literature Martin's Ovid literary translation won the 2004 Harold Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Manning (poet)
Maurice Manning (born 1966) is an American poet. His first collection of poems, ''Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions'', was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin. Since then he has published four collections of poetry (with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Copper Canyon Press). He teaches English and Creative Writing at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he oversees the Judy Gaines Young Book Award, and is a member of the poetry faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Life Manning was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended Earlham College and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tuscaloosa. From 2000 to 2004, Manning taught at DePauw University. In the fall of 2004 he began teaching in the Indiana University M.F.A. Program. He is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and in January 2012 he was hired by Transylvania University, a small liberal arts college in Lexington, Kentucky. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Logan (poet)
William Logan (born 1950) is an American poet, critic and scholar. Life Logan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan. He lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with his wife, the poet and artist, Debora Greger. Educated at Yale (BA, 1972) and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa (MFA, 1975), he has authored eight books of poetry as well as five books of criticism. Work He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Florida. Logan's poetry reviews have appeared in the ''New York Times Book Review''. Many of these reviews have been quite controversial, leading Slate magazine to call him "the most hated man in American poetry... ndits guiltiest pleasure". Logan's own poetry has received generally positive reviews. The poet Richard Tillinghast wrote, "when he manages to avoid obscurity, Mr. Logan writes with vigor, almost classical restraint and a fine sense of musicality." Logan's work has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Livesey
Margot Livesey (born 1953) is a Scottish-born writer. She is the author of nine novels, a collection of short stories, a collection of essays on writing and the co-author, with Lynn Klamkin, of a textbook. Among other awards, she has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN New England Award, and the Massachusetts Book Award. Livesey's stories and essays have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', and a number of literary quarterlies. She was formerly the fiction editor at ''Ploughshares'', an American literary journal. Livesey served as a judge for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction in 2012. She currently divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Iowa City, Iowa, where she is a member of the faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. She has also taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cleveland State Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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