NEWSwire Home

Scholarships available for Chautauqua Writers Festival

Clarion University is offering three full scholarships, which cover registration, food, and board, to the third annual Chautauqua Writer’s Festival, June 15-18 at the writer’s center in Chautauqua, N.Y.

The festival is a four day event that includes intensive writing workshops, lectures, panel discussions, and reading. Award winning poets, fiction writers, and non-fiction writers will be at the festival to share their insights on the art and craft of writing.

Students interested in entering the Chautauqua Writer’s Festival Scholarship contest should send one of the following: 6-8 poems, 1-2 fiction stories, or 1-2 essays of non-fiction. No names should be includes on the creative works.

Include a cover letter with: name, e-mail address, phone number, address, and title of work. The genre for which the entrant is applying should be indicated. Manuscripts should be sent to Chautauqua Scholarship Contest/Deb Lauer/Department of English/Clarion University/Clarion, Pa. 16214. The deadline is Friday, April 7. For more information e-mail Philip Terman at terman@clarion.edu or call 393-2673.

The following people are schedule to be at the festival.

Stephen Dunn, the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry for his collection, “Different Hours.” Dunn has written more than ten collections of poetry. He has taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, and Princeton University, among others. He taught for many years at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Maggie Anderson is the author of four books of poems, most recently “Windfall: New and Selected Poems” published in 2000. Her other books include “Cold Comfort” and “A Space Filled with Moving.” Anderson is also the editor of the new and selected poems of Louise McNeill and co-editor of Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry About School and A Gathering of Poets. Recent poems have been published in “The Alaska Quarterly,” “The Georgia Review,” and “The American Poetry Review.”

Scott Russell Sanders is currently a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University where he has taught since 1971. Sanders’ 19 books include novels, such as “Bad Man Ballad,” and collections of short stories, such as “Wilderness Plot,” but his chief work has been in literary nonfiction, such as “The Paradise of Bombs.” His writing has appeared in “Harper’s,” “Audubon,” “Orion,” “Georgia Review,” and other magazines, and in numerous anthologies. His essay "The Force of Spirit" appeared in “The Best American Essays 2000,” the fourth time his work has appeared in this annual collection of outstanding nonfiction.

Barbara Hurd teaches at Frostburg State University and in the Stonecoast Program in Creative Writing. She is an editor of the literary annual “Nightsun.” Her essays and poems have appeared in numerous publications, including the 1999 and 2001 volumes of “The Best American Essays,” the “Yale Review,” the “Georgia Review,” “Audubon,” and “Sierra.”

Peter Ho Davies directs the MFA programme in creative writing at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers, and his short fiction is widely anthologized, including selections for “Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1998” and “Best American Short Stories 1995, 1996 and 2001.” His own first published collection of short stories was “The Ugliest House in the World” published in 1998 and his second collection, “Equal Love,” was published in 2000. He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2003, he was named by “Granta” magazine as one of 20 “Best of Young British Novelists.”

Laura Kasischke’s most recent novel is The Life Before Her Eyes, published by Harcourt in 2002. A new novel entitled Boy Heaven is forthcoming. She has also published six collections of poetry, and this year received an NEA fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, The New Republic, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the M.F.A. program and the Residential College at the University of Michigan.

Archive Index >>