July 3-16 and July 17-30, 1994

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The Bennington Summer Writing Workshops continues a 17-year tradition of offer ing small classes and tutorials with distinguished facultyin fiction, nonfiction,and poetry. ♦ The program gives writers time to concentrate on their writing while in residence at Bennington College. ♦ \Vriters may enroll in either two-week or four week sessions, and elect to focus on either poetry,fiction , or nonfiction. ♦ Located on the campus of Bennington College in the Green Mountains of southwestern Vermont, the WritingWorkshops offers its students that most precious and elusive BENNINGTON advantage: time to writein a community of kindred spirits and constructive counsel. SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOPS WORKSHOPS Restaurants, country stores, and a spring The Bennington WritingWor kshops puts special fed lake are within walking distance and within emphasis on giving writers time-the breathing 50 miles are New England's best theater, music room-to write while they are in residence. The and dance festivals-Tanglewood, Williams program includes six hours of seminars per week, town, Jacob's Pillow-and the historic homes plus tutorial meetingswith faculty and evening of Edith Wharton and Herman Melville, and readings by visiting and resident writers. Many Robert Frost's grave. guest editors and publishers visit to participate in panel discussions. There is ample timeto write APPLICATION and revise work, which is read by faculty and Enrollment is limited. Complete applications fellow students in seminars. Three scheduled are reviewed within two weeks of receipt. To student readings each week give participants apply, fill out the application form, submit a the option tcishare their work with the Work brief writing sample (no more than 25 pages of shops community. prose or 12 pages of poetry) in triplicate, along with a summary of related experience. The non WRITERS IN RESIDENCE refundable application feeis $25. Faculty are chosen for the excellence of their writing and teaching ability. They offer indi TUITION, ROOM AND BOARD vidual conferences throughout the Workshops ■ Tuition for two weeks: $850 and a written evaluation at the conclusion. ■ Room and Board for two weeks: $475 Requests to study with a particular faculty ■ Tuition for four weeks: $1,355 member are honored as registration permits. ■ Room and Board for four weeks: $835 ( 10% discount to Bennington Collegeand PUBLISHING PANELS WritingWorkshops alumni.) Prominent editors, publishers, and literary folk visit campus to discuss publication and distri Limited need-based financialaid is available: bution ofliterature. Discussions with students To apply for a scholarship, include with your also focus on how best to submit manuscripts application a letter of reference from some to editors. one who is familiar with both your talents and your financial situation. Due April 15. SUMMER AT BENNINGTON The Workshops are held on the 5 SO-acre campus For further information, contact: of Bennington College. Participantslive in mod est, comfortable single rooms in College houses Liam Rector, Director and take meals at The Commons. The Carriage Bennington Summer Writing Workshops Barn Cafe is the night-spot on campus for post Box BR, Bennington College reading receptions while Crossett Library offers Bennington, VT 05201 its excellent collection of literature and a quiet place to read and write. Campus recreation areas 802-442-5401, ext. 160 include tennis and basketball courts, and a soccer field. FULL-TIME FACULTY SESSION l: JULY 3 - JULY 16 FICTIO N Lynn Freed's novels are Heart Change, Home Ground, and The Bungalow. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Harpers, The New YorkTimes Magazine, Zyzzyva,Mirabella, and elsewhere, and her reviews have been published in Washing ton Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others. She has received Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and has taught at Berkeley, Bennington, the University of Montana, and elsewhere. Freed was a Uni versity Wit Fellow at Columbia, and cur rently lives in Sonoma, California. and lives in Oxford. Last year he pub Elinor Lipman's most recent novel is lished a collection of short stories, Bats Isabel's Bed. She has also published two Robert Grudin's novel is Book, cited by Out of Hell. The Boston Globe recently other novels, The Way Men Act and Then The New York Times as one of the most called him the literary equivalent ofTom She Found Mc, and a collection of short notable books of 1992. He has published Waits, and we'll go along with that. stories, Into Love and Out Again. Her work two books of nonfiction about the cre has been translatedintoJapanese, German, ative process and the philosophy of time, Tom Jenks wrote Our Happiness, a novel, and Dutch. Short stories have appeared The Grace of Great Things and Time and and, with Raymond Carver, edited Ameri in Yankee, Cosmopolitan, Wigwag,and else the Art of Living. Grudin was awarded a can Short StoryMas terpieces. He has edited where. She has worked as a journalist and Guggenheim fellowship in 1992-1993. He other fiction anthologies, including Sol taught at Hampshire, Lesley, and Simmons lives in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches at diers and Civilians and, with Rust Hills, the Colleges. She lives in Northampton, Mas the University of Oregon. EsquireFiction Reader. His essays and re sachusetts. views have appeared in VanityFair, The Los Barry Hannah's first novel, Geronimo Angeles Times, and MissouriReview , and he Bob Shacochis's first novel, Swimming in Rex, won the William Faulkner Prize. His has worked as a literary editor for Esquire, the Volcano, was nominated for the Na story collection Airships is a contempo Gentleman's Quarterly and at Scribners. tional Book Award this year. His short rary classic, and his novel Ray was nomi Jenks has taught at theIowa Writers Work story collections are TheNext New World nated for the National Book Award. He shop and the University of California at and Easy in the Islands, which was awarded teaches at the University of Mississippi Irvine and Davis. He lives in San Francisco. the American Book Award. He recently published Domesticity,a collection of his food columns from Gentleman's Quar terly. He has taught at the University of Iowa, written as a free-lance journalist for Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Vogue, and is a contributing editor to Harper's. He makes his home inTallaha ssee, Florida. POETRY Stephen Dobyns has published many books of poems, including The Balthus Poems; Cemetery Nigh ts; Body Traffic; Black Dog, Red Dog; and Velocities: Poems 1966- Above: Barry Hannah 1992. His novels include The Wrestler's Topright : Campus housing Cruel Study and Cold Dog Soup; and the Right: Elinor Lipman detective novels Saratoga Hexameter, Saratoga Swimmer, and others. Dobyns has received fellowships from the Elizabeth Cox has published two novels: Catherine Texier has published three Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA Familiar Ground and The Ragged Way novels: Panic Blood, Love Me Tender, and and he has taught at Warren Wilson, the People FallOut of Love. She has published Chloe/' Atlantique, and one work of non Iowa Writers Workshop, and currently poems in the SouthernPoetry Review and fiction, a study of prostitution, Profession directs the writing program at Syracuse Kentucky Poetry Review, and her essays Prostituee. For seven years she was co-edi University. have appeared in Ms. and Lears. A rccipi tor of Between C & D, and with J ocl Rose en t of the 0. Henry Award, Cox has she has edited two anthologies of fiction: Molly Peacock's three books of poems taught at the University of North Carolina, Love is Strange and Between C & D: New are Take Heart, Raw Heaven, and And Live Duke, and the University of Michigan. Writing From the Lower East Side Magazine. Apart. She has received NEA and Ingram She presently lives in Concord, Massa She has received an NEAfcllowshipin fic Merrill fellowshipsfor her work, and has chusetts. tion and has worked as a translator. She taught at Columbia, Sarah Lawrence, was born and raised in France and now Barnard, Bucknell, NYU, and at the West C. Michael Curtis is a senior editor for lives in New York. Side YMCA in New York. Her reviews The AtlanticMonthly, editing fiction and and essays have appeared in The New York nonfiction. He has edited four antholo POETRY TimesBook Review and elsewhere. She lives gies of short fiction: American Stories: Fic in New York and in London, Ontario. tion fromThe AtlanticMonthly, Volumes I Kate Daniels' books of poems arc The and II; ContemporaryNew England Stories; Niobe Poems and The White Wave. A co and ContemporaryWest Coast Stories. He founderand former editor of Poetry East, NONFICTION Sven Birkerts is the author of An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth Century Literature, The Electric Life: Essayson Mod ernPoetry, and American Energies: Essays on Fiction. With Donald Hall, he edits Writing Well, and his essays and reviews appear regularly in Agni, The New Republic, Mirabella, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a book about reading and our electronic culture. Birkcrts has received a Citation forExcellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest fellowship, and has taught at Harvard and Emerson College.

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