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BENNINGTON SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOPS Bennington College Bennington, VT05201

July 3-16 and '}:, BENNINGTON SUMMcR WRtllNC WORKSHOPS OfPI'RS ITS snmrnrs July 17-30, 1994 THAT MOST PRECIOUS AND ELUSIVE ADVANTAGE: TIME TO WRITE IN A COMMUNITY OF KINDRED SPIRITS AND CONSTRUCTIVE COUNSEL. 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. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

FULL-TIME FACULTY

has published essays, poems, and reviews she has edited Out of Silence: Selected SESSION II: JULY 17 - 30 in The New Republic, TheNational Review, Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, co-edited Of and others, has worked as a journalist, and Safi tude and Silence: Writings on Robert Bly, FICTION has taught writing at Harvard, M.I.T., and is currently working on a biography Tufts, Boston University, and elsewhere. of the poet Muriel Rukeyser. She has re­ Douglas Bauer has published two nov­ He lives in Concord, Massachusetts. ceived a fellowship from the Bunting els, The Very Air and Dexterity; a book of Institute at Radcliffe College and has nonfiction,Prairie City, Iowa ; and has pub­ Carole Maso's fournovels are The Ameri­ taught at Louisiana State University, the lished short stories, essays, and reviews in can Woman in the Chinese Hat, Ava, The Art University of Massachusetts, and the Uni­ Esquire, The Boston Globe, The Real Paper, Lover, and Ghost Dance. She has also writ­ versity of Virginia. She is currently poet­ Playboy, Harper's, and elsewhere. He has ten for the screen. She has received in-residence at Wake Forest University in received a fellowshipin fictionfrom the Lannan and NEA fellowships for her North Carolina, and lives in Durham. NEA; has taught at the University of work, and has taught at George Washing­ l\1cxico,Harvard , SUNY at Albany, Ohio ton University, Illinois State, and is cur­ State University, and Drake; and has rently on the facultyof the Writing Divi­ Above: An outdoor poetry reading draws worked as an editor. He lives in Boston, sion at Columbia University. She lives in both Writing Workshops and community Massachusetts. New York. members. Katha Pollitt is the author of Antarctic Donald Hall's latest book of poems is Traveller, a book of poems that received The Museum of Clear Ideas, a finalist for the the National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award in 1993. Other and the upcoming Subject to Debate: Essays books of poems include The One Day, The on Women and Feminism. She is associate Happy Man, and Kicking the Leaves. He editor at The Nation, reviews regularly for also recently published Life Work, a book The New Yorker, and has published re­ of nonfiction, and Their Ancient Glittering views and essays at The New York Times, Eyes, a memoir about poets. Ms., Mirabella, Vogue, and The New Repub­ lic. She has received Guggenheim, NEA, Jane Kenyon, poet and translator, is the and Whiting fellowships for her work, author of Constance, a book of poems re­ and has taught at Princeton, The New cently published by Graywolf. Earlier School, and elsewhere. She lives in New books of poems are Let Evening Come, The York and is a board member of the New Boat of Quiet Hours, From Room to Room, York American Civil Liberties Union. and TwentyPoems ofAnna Akmatova.

READERS Liam Rector's books are The Sorrow of Architecture, a book of poems, and The NONFICTION Charles Baxter's novels and books of Day I Was Older: On the Poetry of Donald stories are Shadow Pla A Relative Stranger, Hall, which he edited. He is the director Kathleen Norris's recent book of non­ y, First Light, Through the Safety Net, and of the Summer Writing Workshops and fictionis Dakota: A Spiritual Biography. She Harmony ofthe World. His books of poems the low-residency MA/MFA Bennington has published essays and reviews in The include Imaginary Paintings and Other Writing Seminars. Norton Book of Nature Writing, American Poems and The South Dakota Guidebook. Benedictine Review, GettysburgReview , and He teaches at the University of Michigan Mary Rueflehas published three books elsewhere, and has published books of and lives in Ann Arbor. of poems: The Adamant, Memling's Veil, poems including The Middle of the Road and Life Without Speaking. A 1974 Ben­ and FallingOff. She is a contributing edi­ Frank Bidart's most recent book of nington College graduate, she has re­ tor for Hungry Mind Review and is presi­ poems is In the Western Night: Collected ceived an NEA fellowship in poetry, and dent and business manager forLeaves of Poems, 1965-1990. Earlier books include lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Grass, a small family farm and ranch op­ The Sacrifice, The Book of the Body, and eration. A Bennington graduate, she has Golden State. taught at the Poets-in-the-Schools pro­ gram in South Dakota and at the Great Lucie Brock-Broido is the author of A Plains Institute of Theology. Norris was WORDS & MUSIC Hunger, a book of poems. Her second awarded a Guggenheim in 1993. She lives book of poems, The Master Letters, will be in Lemmon, South Dakota. published by Knopf in 1994. David Broza is an Israeli singer and mu­ sician who has taken the music of poetry and translated it further into song. His recent albums in English are Time of Trains and Away from Home, which in­ clude work by Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Alberto Rios, and Matthew Graham.

Matthew Graham's books of poems arc 1943 and New World Architecture. He is the co-director of the Ropewalk Writers Retreat and teaches at the University of Southern Indiana.

Top: Kathleen Norris '69 Left: Gathering of Conspiracy Theorists. VISITING EDITORS & LITERARY FOLi{

D.W. Fenza,AWP Chronicle & AWP Award Series Dan Halpern, Antaeus & Ecco Press Stratis Haviaris, Harvard Review DeWitt Henry, Ploughshares Karl Kirchwey, Poetry Center, 92nd St. Y Fiona McCrae, Faber & Faber Robert McDowell, Story Line Press Askold Melnyczuk,Agni Robin Moody and Tamara Stock, Daedalus Books Peter Oresick, University of Pittsburgh Press Louisa Solano, Grolier Bookstore Scott Walker, Graywolf Press

Clockwise from top left: Sven Birkerts, David Broza, StephenDobyns, and Bob Shacochis

ACADEMIC AND Participants may attend either two-week session or the entire month. To apply to the Summer Writing Workshops, please provide the information requested below APPLICATION and enclose a nonrefundable $25 application fee. Upon acceptance a nonrefund­ INFORMATION able deposit of $100 is due. Full payment is due 15 days prior to arrival on campus.

Bennington College offers non­ A completedapphcation must include: matriculating undergraduate and 1 Writing sample in triplicate (not to exceed 25 pages of prose or 12 pages of graduate credit equivalentto a poetry). one-semester course (3 credits) to 2. A summary of your experience and interests. students enrolled in the 4-week 3. This application-filled out and signed. session who satisfactorily complete their work in the Applications are reviewed as received; you will be notified within two weeks of Writing Workshops and partial receipt. credit (15 credits) forthe 2-week Apply early-class size is limited. Deadline forfinancial aid: April 15. session. Students applying for graduate credit must have an FEES: TUITION ROOM AND BOARD TOTAL undergraduate degree from an Two weeks: $850 $475 $1,375 accredited college or university. Four weeks: $1,355 $835 $2,190 The college credit fee is $50, due before the Workshops begins. Participants who choose to live off campus mustfind their own accommodations. The decision as to whether or not It is not possibleto take room withoutboard. credit is acceptable by any OPTIONAL COLLEGE CRED!f: particular college or university is Two week session: 1.5 credits; four week session: 3 credits. completely at its discretion. Credit fee of$ 5 0 is due upon acceptance. These writers are among those whohave Ann Hood Joe McGinniss Louise Simpson joined us inour firstseventeen years, James D. Houston Heather McHugh Mona Simpson 1911-1993. Maureen Howard Jay Mcinerney David Slavitt Richard Howard Ved Mehta James Park Sloan Barbara Howes James Merrill Dave Smith John W.Aldridge Robb Forman Dew David Huddle Michael Mewshaw Lee Smith JenniferAllen DigbyDiehl Martha Hughes Leonard Michaels Mark Smith LisaAlther AnnieDillard TR.Hummer Nancy Milford William Jay Smith Philip Appleman Stephen Dobyns Josephine Humphreys Susan Minot W.D . Snodgrass John Ashbery SusanDodd John Irving Roger Mitchell Ted Solotaroff JamesAtlas MichaelDorris Susan Isaacs Ted Mooney Irini Spanidou Paul Auster Robert Draper Harold Jaffe Howard Moss Scott Spencer Jerome Badanes JackDriscoll Joyce Johnson Bharati Mukherjee Elizabeth Spires Consuelo Baehr AndreDubus Justin Kaplan Jack Newfield Susan Stamberg Russell Banks Stephen Dunn Frederick R. Karl Robert Nichols Maura Stanton Donald Barthelme Richard Eberhart Maria Katzenbach John Frederick Nims Ronald Steel JonathanBaumbach Amy Ehrlich William Kennedy GeoffreyNorman Daniel Stern CharlesBaxter Gretel Ehrlich Jane Kenyon Howard Norman Gerald Stern John Calvin Batchelor Emily Ellison Philip Kimball Craig Nova Gladys Swan StephenBecker Ralph Ellison Jamaica Kincaid Joyce Carol Oates Brian Swann BenBelitt Richard Elman Galway Kinnell EdOchester Roberta Swann Madison SmarttBell Lynn Emanuel William Kitteridge MaryOliver James Tate JoeDavid Bellamy Monroe Engel Bill Knott WilliamO'Rourke Henry Taylor AnneBernay s John Engels Seyn1our Krim Michelle Orwin Christopher Tilghman JaneBernstein Louise Erdrich Maxine Kumin AliciaOstriker Richard Tillinghast Frank Bidart Percival Everett James Howard Kunstler Robert Pack Robert Towers SvenBirkerts Thomas Flanagan James Landis Grace Paley Chase Twitchell ClarkBla ise Maria Flook Sydney Lea Victor Perera Leslie Ullman Roy Blount Richard Ford Norman Lear Daniel Peters John Updike George Booth Lynn Freed Trish Lear Michael Pettit Arturo Vivante DavidBottoms Betty Friedan David Leavitt Robert Pinsky EllenBryant Voigt Blanche Boyd Laura Furman David Lehman Reynolds Price Chuck Wachtel RobertBoyers Jonathan Galassi Christopher .Jayne Ann Phillips Mel Watkins DavidBradley John Gardner Lehmann-Haupt Stanley Plumly Bruce Weigl TaylorBranch George Garrett Jim Lehrer C. E. Poverman Theodore Weiss Lucille Brock-Broido Margaret Gibson Ursula K. Le Guin Lawrence Raab Jon Manchip White William Bronk Marianne Gingher Christopher Leland Liam Rector John Edgar Wideman RosellenBrown Dana Gioia Nancy Lemann Natalie Robins Allen Wier DavidBroza Carole Glickfeld John Leonard Roxana Robinson Dara Wier FrederickBuechner Louise Gliick Suzanne Levine James Robison Ellen Wilbur Frederick Busch Gail Godwin Jonathan Levy Mary Robison Richard Wilbur Mario Cajina-Vega Herbert Gold Elinor Lipman Martha Ronk Nancy Willard Hortense Calisher Francine du Plessix Gray Margot Livesey L.M .Rosenberg C.K. Williams Hayden Carruth Ben Greer Phillip Lopate Theodore Rosengarten Joy Williams John Casey Doris Grumbach Barry Lopez MaryRuefle Meredith Sue Willis Richard Cecil Donald Hall M.G.Lord Ronald Sanders Carter Wilson Helen Chasin Daniel Halpern Bret Lott Scott Sanders Thomas Winship .John Cheever Barry Hannah .J.Anthony Lucas Stephen Sandy Hilma Wolitzer Kelly Cherry Curtis Harnack Cynthia Macdonald Maggie Scharf Meg Wolitzer Alan Cheuse Barbara Grizzuti Bernard Malamud Grace Schulman Tobias Wolff Amy Clampitt Harrison Michael Malinowitz Jim Seay Susan Wood Cid Corman Stratis Haviaras Paule Marshall Lore Segal Charles Wright Elizabeth Cox .John Hawkes Hilary Masters Bob Shacochis .JayWright Robert Creeley Shelby Hearon Harry Mathews Wilfrid Sheed Richard Yates Kate Daniels Amy Hempel William Matthews Susan Shreve A!Young John Darnton Edward Hirsch John McCluskey Charles Simic PeterDavison Edward Hoagland Jill McCorkle Scott Simon Nicholas Delbanco Jill Hoffman David McCullough Louis Simpson --

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