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THE ADROIT JOURNAL SUMMER MENTORSHIP 2016 BOOKLET LEARN : COLLABORATE : GROW About the Program How do I apply? As a way of maintaining and extending our deep-rooted com- Applications for this year’s mentorship program consist of two mitment to emerging writers, The Adroit Journal’s Summer mandatory parts—a Writer’s Statement and a Writing Sample, with Mentorship Program aims to pair experienced writers with high the additional voluntary component of an academic transcript in school students (as of the current academic year) interested in .PDF form. The Writer’s Statement should detail the applicant’s learning more about the creative writing processes of drafting, specific interest in pursuing The Adroit Journal’s summer men- redrafting and editing. torship program. What is it about our program and mission that piques your interest? Why this workshop? How would you spend The program is free to all, and is entirely online. The 2016 pro- your time with us? We want to know. Aim for between 1-1.5 pages gram will cater to the literary genres of poetry, fiction, and double spaced, and don’t be afraid to be creative and original. We nonfiction.The aim of the mentorship program is not formalized like that. instruction, but rather an individualized, flexible, and often informal correspondence. It is our hope that mentees will feel comfortable While we of course suggest mentioning your experience and sharing work at their own leisure with their mentors and, ultimately, accomplishment with the writing and workshop processes, we will with each other. evaluate applications looking primarily for demonstrated passion and interest. We’d also like to suggest that you review the mission, The 2016 summer mentorship program will be open for applica- ambition, and content of the journal for inspiration, if you find tions via Submittable until April 15, 2016. The program will last yourself stuck. from June 26, 2016 until August 5, 2016, and will be capped at sixty students. Each year, students ask for tips. Here’s the biggest one we can give: tell us why you want to spend your summer in this Please note that this opportunity will not offer academic credit (this program, rather than a general summer writing or reading or is a friendship, not a class!), and that participation in this workshop editing. As always, the more specifics, the better. is not a route to publication in the journal. The Writing Sample should consist of between four and five Questions? poems or between eight and ten pages of fiction or nonfiction Visit us online: www.theadroitjournal.org/mentorship (excerpts acceptable). Say hello: [email protected] Students who wish to apply to multiple genres may do so by utilizing both the First Choice and Second Choice options in the mentorship application form here. Important: If you wish to apply The Application to more than one genre, please include two complete writing sam- ples, one for each genre, with your second-choice genre following This upcoming year’s program will be open for applications via the first. our submission manager until April 15, 2016 at 11:59 PM EST. The program will last from June 26, 2016 until August 5, 2016, and will be capped at sixty students. Submission Details Applicants should possess firm work ethic and some familiarity with As noted above, applications should be sent via our submission the writing and workshop processes, and should be comfortable manager via this category. Please note that applications for this with receiving (and giving) commentary and critique. Applicants year’s program will be accepted until April 15, 2016 at 11:59 PM should also possess the will to explore and improve! EST. All decisions will be released by no later than May 17, 2016. At the end of the day, we are looking for the best potential: the writers with the drive to explore and discuss, the courage to delete and leap, and the determination to apply what they discover to future writings. MENTOR INDEX 6 Garrett Biggs : FICTION MENTOR 14 Lucia LoTempio : MANAGING EDITOR 6 William Brewer : POETRY MENTOR 14 Carly Joy Miller : POETRY MENTOR 7 Stephanie Cawley : POETRY MENTOR 15 Matt W. Miller : POETRY MENTOR 7 Chen Chen : POETRY MENTOR 15 Stephen Mills : POETRY MENTOR 8 Caroline Crew : NONFICTION MENTOR 16 Frani O’Toole : COORDINATOR 8 Trista Edwards : POETRY MENTOR 16 Megan Peak : POETRY MENTOR 9 Cody Ernst : POETRY MENTOR 17 Maria Pinto : FICTION MENTOR 9 William Fargason : POETRY MENTOR 17 Christina Qiu : FICTION MENTOR 10 Jennifer Givhan : POETRY MENTOR 18 Douglas Ray : CO-DIRECTOR 10 Andrew Gretes : FICTION MENTOR 18 Nancy Reddy : POETRY MENTOR 11 Alex Higley : FICTION MENTOR 19 Jim Redmond : POETRY MENTOR 11 Rochelle Hurt : POETRY MENTOR 19 Michelle Ross : FICTION MENTOR 12 Gina Keicher : POETRY MENTOR 20 Raena Shirali : POETRY MENTOR 12 Taisia Kitaiskaia : POETRY MENTOR 20 Talin Tahajian : POETRY MENTOR 13 Peter LaBerge : FOUNDER & CO-DIRECTOR 21 Jeff Whitney : POETRY MENTOR 13 Keegan Lester : POETRY MENTOR 21 Emily Paige Wilson : POETRY MENTOR GARRETT STEPHANIE BIGGS CAWLEY Garrett Biggs’s most recent fiction is published in CutBank, Stephanie Cawley is from southern New Jersey. She currently Necessary Fiction, and Paper Darts, among several other journals. lives in Pittsburgh, where she is an MFA candidate at the University He is prose editor of The Adroit Journal, and lives in Denver, of Pittsburgh. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado, where he is an undergraduate at the University of Denver. H_NGM_N, Birdfeast, The Adroit Journal, Prelude, Phantom Books, The Collagist, and elsewhere. Favorite writers: Roberto Bolaño, Anne Carson, Valeria Luiselli Favorite writers: Alice Notley, CA Conrad, Fred Moten, Ursula K. Le Guin WILLIAM CHEN CHEN BREWER William Brewer was born and raised in West Virginia. His Chen Chen is the author of the chapbooks Set the Garden on Fire poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Denver (Porkbelly Press, 2015) and Kissing the Sphinx (Two of Cups Press, Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online, The Nation, A Public Space, and 2016). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, other journals. He is the recipient of a Creative Writing Teaching Drunken Boat, The Best American Poetry, and other places. A Fellowship from Columbia University, where he earned his MFA, Kundiman Fellow and a 2015 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, he is pursuing a PhD in Conference, the 2015-16 Joseph F. McCrindle Online Editorial English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. Fellowship from Poets & Writers, and a James Merrill Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. Favorite writers: Pablo Neruda, Aracelis Girmay, Jean Valentine Favorite writers: Rumi, Dorothea Lasky, Tarfia Faizullah 8 2016 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 9 CAROLINE CODY ERNST CREW Caroline Crew is the author of PINK MUSEUM (Big Lucks, 2015), Cody Ernst’s work appears in Best New Poets 2015, Bat City as well as several chapbooks. Her poetry and essays appear in Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. He is an instructor at The Conjunctions, Salt Hill Journal, and Black Warrior Review, among Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and serves as a others. She’s online here: caroline-crew.com. poetry editor of The Adroit Journal. Favorite writers: Favorite writers: Jamaica Kincaid, Sarah Manguso, Eula Biss D.A. Powell, John Ashbery, A.R. Ammons TRISTA WILLIAM EDWARDS FARGASON Trista Edwards is an Ohio born, Georgia Peach living it up in Texas. William Fargason’s poetry has appeared in New England Review, Trista is currently a Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of Barrow Street, Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, The Baltimore North Texas. Her poems and reviews are published or forthcoming Review, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. He received an award in The Journal, Mid-American Review, 32 Poems, American from the Academy of American Poets and a scholarship to Bread Literary Review, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Birmingham Poetry Loaf Writers’ Conference. He earned a B.A. in English from Auburn Review, The Rumpus, Sou’wester, Moon City Review, and more. University, where he served as poetry editor of The Circle. He Trista is currently a contributing writer at Luna Luna Magazine and earned a M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Maryland, where she recently edited the anthology Till the Tide: An Anthology of he taught creative writing. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at Mermaid Poetry, which was released early 2015. Florida State University. He lives with himself in Tallahassee, Florida. Favorite writers: Favorite writers: Sylvia Plath, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Elizabeth Bishop Richard Siken, Sharon Olds, Elizabeth Bishop 10 2016 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 11 JENNIFER ALEX GIVHAN HIGLEY Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Alex Higley has been previously published by New World Writing, Southwestern desert. Her full-length poetry collection Landscape Fanzine, PANK, Hobart, The Adroit Journal, Burrow Press Review, with Headless Mama won the 2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize and is and elsewhere. He contributed text to Alec Soth’s The Frank Album. forthcoming in 2016. Her honors include an NEA fellowship, PEN/ His debut story collection is forthcoming from Tailwinds Press Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellowship, The Frost Place Latin@ (2017). A graduate of the Northwestern MFA program, he lives in Scholarship, The Pinch Poetry Prize, The DASH Poetry Prize, and Chicago with his wife and dog. work in Best New Poets 2013, AGNI, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner. She teaches at The Rooster Moans Poetry Coop. Visit her online at jennifergivhan.com Favorite writers: Brad Watson, Joy Williams, Frederick Barthelme, Lorrie Moore Favorite writers: Claudia Emerson, Sharon Olds, Toni Morison, Sandra Cisneros, Ada Limón, Ana Castillo ANDREW ROCHELLE GRETES HURT Andrew Gretes is the author of How to Dispose of Dead Elephants Rochelle Hurt is the author of two poetry collections: In Which I (Sandstone Press, 2014), a novel which explores epilepsy through Play the Runaway (2016), winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize, fables.
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