Only four-week students may receive academic credit.  All workshops meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 1 to 4 p.m.

How to Select a Workshop:

Applicants are encouraged to select the workshop which seems most appropriate and attractive to them, but the Director and Assistant Director of the program will make the final determinations about placement based upon review of the required writing sample and other relevant factors, including previous workshop experience.   

Four-Week Option:
June 29-July 24, 2009: Benedict, Redel, Senna, Ohlin

FICTION 2 - ADVANCED FICTION WRITING
Two-Week Options:
June 29-July 10, 2009: Margot Livesey & Jim Shepard (one week each)
OR July 13-24, 2009: Amy Hempel & Mary Gaitskill (one week each)

Four-Week Option:
June 29-July 24, 2009: Livesey, Shepard, Hempel & Gaitskill

FICTION 3 - FICTION MASTER CLASS
Two-Week Options:
June 29-July 10, 2009: Mary Gordon & Marilynne Robinson (one week each)
OR July 13-24, 2009: Rick Moody (both weeks)

Four-Week Option:
June 29-July 24, 2009: Gordon, Robinson, & Moody

POETRY 1 - INTERMEDIATE POETRY WRITING
Two-Week Options:
June 29-July 10, 2009: Campbell McGrath (both weeks)
OR July 13-24, 2009: Peg Boyers (both weeks)

Four-Week Option:
June 29-July 24, 2009: McGrath & Boyers

POETRY 2 - ADVANCED & POETRY MASTER CLASS
Two-Week Options:
June 29-July 10, 2009:  Master Class with Frank Bidart (both weeks)
OR July 13-24, 2009: Advanced Poetry with Henri Cole (both weeks)

Four-Week Option:
June 29-July 24, 2009: Master Class w/Bidart & Advanced w/Cole

POETRY 3 - POETRY MASTER CLASS
Two-Week Option (Session I only):
June 29-July 10, 2009: Deborah Digges & Robert Pinsky (one week each)

Four-week Option:
June 29-July 24, 2009: Poetry 3 Master Class w/Digges-Pinsky & Poetry 2 Advanced w/Cole

NON-FICTION - ADVANCED NONFICTION PROSE
Two-Week Options:
June 29-July 10, 2009: A Workshop in Memoir & Personal Essay with Phillip Lopate (both weeks)
OR July 13-24, 2009: A Workshop in Miscellaneous Non-Fiction Forms (including memoir) with James Miller (both weeks)

Four-Week Option:
June 29-July 24, 2009: Lopate & Miller (two weeks each)

NOTES

Special Readings/Discussions

Discussions with visiting faculty and special panels are scheduled between 2 and 4 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday and are open only to students enrolled in the Institute. Summer 2009 writers participating in this program include Russell Banks, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Howard Norman & Francine Prose. Additional POETRY craft discussions will feature Carolyn Forche, Carl Dennis, Richard Howard & Charles Simic. Public readings, interviews, and discussions are scheduled between 8 and 9:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Student readings are on Sunday evenings. Other special weekend events include two-hour workshops (session one and session two) on “Writing Historical Fiction” (with Writer in Residence Adam Braver) and on “The Relationship Between Writing & Publishing” (with Bob Boyers & Institute Faculty).

Tutorial Sessions

Students enrolled in Fiction 1, 2, or 3 who are writing novels are invited to register for intensive tutorial sessions with writers-in-residence Adam Braver, Amy Wallen, or Greg Hrbek. (Students are invited to request a particular tutor, though the Institute cannot guarantee that they will be assigned to the tutor requested.) The writers-in-residence will read and discuss with students entire novels up to 300 manuscript pages in length. Students enrolled in poetry workshops or in nonfiction prose workshops who are preparing book-length collections are invited to register for private sessions with Barry Goldensohn or Honor Moore (poetry) or Rochelle Gurstein or Honor Moore (non-fiction), who will offer criticism and advice on manuscripts up to 150 pages in length (non-fiction) or 90 pages (poetry). All manuscripts must be received by the Skidmore program office not later than June 1, 2009, and must be addressed to Robert Boyers, Director, New York State Summer Writers Institute, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 12866-1632. Tutorial fee: $400.

Registering for a Tutorial

Students accepted into the Institute who wish to register for a tutorial program with one of the writers-in-residence will find an opportunity to do so in a letter sent out by the Director in early May.