THE CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS IN NEW YORK STATE
New York State Summer Writers Institute
Each summer during the month of July the Writers Institute moves its
program to the Skidmore College campus in Saratoga Springs, NY for a series
of creative writing courses and free public readings. This month-long program
features courses in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Students may enroll
for either two week blocks or for the entire four week season.
All Events begin at 8 PM in Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall (Schedule is subject to changes.)
- July 3
Novelist Jim Shepard (The World to Come, Like You’d Understand, Anyway) and poet Campbell McGrath (American Noise)
- July 4
Poet Robert Pinsky (The Want Bone, Gulf Music) and Novelist Elizabeth Benedict (The Practice of Deceit)
- July 5
Novelist Darryl Pinckney (Black Deutschland) and Novelist Joanna Scott (Follow Me, Make Believe)
- July 6
Memoirist Phillip Lopate (Getting Personal) and Novelist Linda Spalding (A Reckoning, The Purchase)
- July 7
Novelist Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Novelist-memoirist Howard Norman
(Next Life Might Be Kinder, The Bird Artist)
- July 10
Poet Louise Gluck (The Wild Iris, Meadowlands) and Novelist Caryl Phillips (The Lost Child)
- July 11
Author Honor Moore (The Bishop’s Daughter), Poet Rosanna Warren (Ghost in a Red Hat), and Poet Lloyd Schwartz
(Little Kisses)
- July 12
Novelist Mary Gaitskill (The Mare, Veronica) and Fictionist Adam Haslett (Imagine Me Gone)
- July 13
Lionel Shriver (fiction) and Allan Gurganus (fiction)
- July 14
Poet Vijay Seshadri (Pulitzer Prize, 3 Sections) and Novelist Adam Braver (Misfit, 1963, Crows over the Wheatfield)
- July 17
Memoirist Margo Jefferson (Negroland) and Poet Peg Boyers (To Forget Venice, Hard Bread, Honey With Tobacco)
- July 18
Novelist-Memoirist Mary Gordon (The Shadow Man, Pearl) and poet Tom Healy (What the Right Hand Knows)
- July 19
Poet Charles Simic (The Lunatic: Poems, Hotel Insomnia) and Novelist-Poet Victoria Redel (Loverboy, The Border Of Truth)
- July 20
Novelist Russell Banks (The Darling, Affliction, The Lost Memory of Skin) and Poet Chase Twichell (Dog Language)
- July 21
Fictionist Amy Hempel (The Dog of Marriage) and Novelist Garth Greenwell (What Belongs to You)
- July 24
Novelist Cristina Garcia (Dreaming in Cuban, King of Cuba, The Lady Matador’s Hotel) and Novelist Paul Harding
(Tinkers, Enon)
- July 25
Novelist William Kennedy (Ironweed, Roscoe) and Novelist Francine Prose (Lovers at the Chameleon Club: Paris 1932)
- July 26
Novelist Joyce Carol Oates (Zombie, Blondie, Carthage)
- July 27
Novelist Jamaica Kincaid (See Now Then, Autobiography Of My Mother, Lucy) and Poet Henri Cole (Nothing To Declare, Touch)
- July 28
Novelist Rick Moody (Hotels of North America) and Jim Miller (author “Democracy Is In The Streets” and other books)
Under the joint auspices of the Office of the Dean of Special Programs
at Skidmore College and the New
York State Writers Institute.
The Summer Writers Institute offers courses for undergraduate and
graduate credit, as well as noncredit courses. An extraordinary
staff of critically-acclaimed, award-winning authors serve as Institute
faculty members. Standard three-hour class meetings, three days
each week, are supplemented by a series of Tuesday and Thursday
afternoon discussions with visiting writers and other special events.
Other distinguished writers-in-residence read book-length poetry
or nonfiction manuscripts and offer advice for revisions and eventual
publication submissions (additional fees charged). The program
also offers public readings by visiting and staff writers Monday
through Friday evenings. Weekend programs include publishing symposia,
panel discussions, and student readings.
Director, Robert Boyers
Assistant Director, Marc Woodworth
Assistant Director, Melora Wolff
Director, NYSWI | Paul Grondahl
For additional information contact:
518-580-5590
518-580-5548 (Fax)
[email protected].
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Science Library, SL 320, University
at Albany, NY 12222 | Phone 518-442-5620, Fax 518-442-5621, email [email protected]
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