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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

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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

by the Coward " 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

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Story Masterpieces." His work has appeared in The 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 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

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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.

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