 2012 WorkshopsOnly 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 Associate 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. |
Two-Week Options:
July 2-13, 2012: Elizabeth Benedict and Victoria Redel
(one week each)
July 16–27, 2011: Danzy Senna and Darin Strauss
(one week each)
Four-Week Option:
July 2-27, 2012: Benedict, Redel, Senna, Norman
Two-Week Options:
July 2–13, 2012: Joanna Scott and Margot Livesey
(one week each)
July 16–27, 2012: Amy Hempel and Mary Gaitskill
(one week each)
Four-Week Option:
July 2–27, 2012: Scott, Livesey, Hempel, Gaitskill
Two-Week Options:
July 2-13, 2012: Allan Gurganus and Claire Messud
(one week each)
July 16–27, 2012: Rick Moody (both weeks)
Four-Week Option:
July 2–27, 2012: Gurganus, Messud, Moody
Two-Week Options:
July 2–13, 2012: Campbell McGrath and Rosanna Warren
(one week each)
July 16–27, 2012: Peg Boyers (both weeks)
Four-Week Option:
July 2–27, 2012: McGrath, Warren, Boyers
Two-Week Options:
July 2–13, 2012: Master Class with Frank Bidart (both weeks)
July 16–27, 2012: Advanced and Master Class with Henri Cole (both weeks)
Four-Week Option:
July 2–27, 2012: Master Class w/Bidart and Advanced w/Cole
Two-Week Options:
July 2-13, 2012: A Workshop in Memoir & Personal Essay with Phillip Lopate (both weeks)
July 16-27, 2012: A Workshop in Miscellaneous Non-Fiction Forms (including memoir) with James Miller (both weeks)
Four-Week Option:
July 2-27, 2012: Lopate & Miller (two weeks each)
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 2012 writers participating in this program include Russell Banks, Mark Strand, Siri Hustvedt, Jamaica Kincaid, Ann Beattie, Mary Gordon, Katha Pollitt and Francine Prose. 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 and Publishing” (with Robert Boyers and Institute faculty).
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 and Amy Wallen. (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 (poetry) 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 no later than June 5, 2012, 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.
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. Once accepted students receive this letter, they may access the Manuscript Tutorial Registration Form here.
