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UM Offers Sixth Annual Summer Writers' Workshop at Yellow Bay University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present University Relations 4-8-1993 UM offers sixth annual summer writers' workshop at Yellow Bay University of Montana--Missoula. Office of University Relations Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/newsreleases Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation University of Montana--Missoula. Office of University Relations, "UM offers sixth annual summer writers' workshop at Yellow Bay" (1993). University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present. 12995. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/newsreleases/12995 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Relations at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. j The University of Montana University Communications NEWS RELEASE Missoula; MT 59812 (406) 243-2522 This release is available electronically on INN (News Net). April 8, 1993 UM OFFERS SIXTH ANNUAL SUMMER WRITERS’ WORKSHOP AT YELLOW BAY M ISSOULA - Four nationally acclaimed authors will offer personalized instruction on diverse types of writing at The University of Montana’s sixth annual Yellow Bay Writers’ Workshop, August 15-21. July 9 is the application deadline for the weeklong workshop in the informal setting of UM’s biological research station on Flathead Lake. Faculty members are: Elizabeth Cox and Ron Hansen, fiction; Ian Frazier, nonfiction; and Patricia Goedicke, poetry. Enrollment in each faculty member’s workshop is limited, and applications will be reviewed and accepted as they arrive. Cox is the author of two novels, "Familiar Ground" and "The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love." Her stories have appeared in Antaeus, Fiction International and The Crescent Review. Her story, "Land of Goshen," was cited for excellence by Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Press. A frequent leader of summer workshops on the short story and the novel, she has received the North Carolina Arts Fellowship Award in Fiction and fellowships to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in Durham, N.C., where she teaches creative writing at Duke University and is working on a new novel and a book of short stories. Hansen has published the novels "Mariette in Ecstacy," "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" and "Desperadoes;" a collection of short stories, "Nebraska;" and "The Shadowmaker," a children’s book. He is the editor of a collection of contemporary American -more- YelBav93.rl - 2 stories, "You Don’t Know What Love Is," and co-editor of the forthcoming "Spellbound: Short Story Masterpieces." His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, The Iowa Review, The Atlantic and other publications. The Commonwealth Club of California awarded him its 1992 Gold Medal in Fiction for "Mariette in Ecstacy." He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He teaches creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Frazier’s book "Great Plains," a New York Times bestseller, was named the best nonfiction book of 1989 by the Western Writers of America. He has also published the humor collection "Dating Your Mom” and "Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody," a collection of reporting pieces. His work has appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic, The New Republic, Army Man and The New Yorker, where he is a contributing writer. His humor pieces have appeared in such anthologies as "Brand X Anthology of Humor," "The Best of Modem Humor" and "Laughing Matters." A resident of New York City, he is working on a nonfiction book about his family’s past 200 years. Goedicke’s ninth book of poetry, "The Tongues We Speak: New and Selected Poems," was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year for 1990. Her other books include "Paul Bunyan’s Bearskin," "Listen, Love," "The Wind of Our Going," "The King of Childhood" and "Crossing the Same River." Her writing has appeared in many magazines including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Nation, The Paris Review and Prairie Schooner. A professor in UM’s creative writing program, she won the University’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 1991. Other honors include the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize, the Strousse -more- I \ I f YelBav93.rl - 3 Award, the Hohenberg Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. This year’s workshop will feature special guests C. Michael Curtis, a senior editor of The Atlantic, and Leonard Wallace Robinson, former managing editor of Esquire and an executive editor for Henry Holt and Company. Applications must include a five-page writing sample and a one-page biography. Also due on July 9 is a deposit of $200 toward the workshop registration fee, which includes all events, optional academic credit, meals and lodging. The fee is $725 for a single-occupancy cabin or $695 for a double-occupancy cabin; the cost for participants who will stay elsewhere and commute to the workshop is $425. The balance of the fee must be paid by Aug. 6. Round-trip transportation from Missoula to Yellow Bay is available for $40 per person. For a brochure and application form, contact the Yellow Bay Writers’ Workshop, Center for Continuing Education, The University of Montana, Missoula 59812; 243-6486. Individuals not participating in the entire workshop may attend readings and lectures for $5 per session; for a schedule, available July 15, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the above address. 11 n n if it if KR Specialized western, dailies Yelbay93.rl.
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