THE ADROIT JOURNAL SUMMER MENTORSHIP 2018 BOOKLET LEARN : COLLABORATE : GROW About the Program Application Details In its sixth year, The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship The Writer’s Statement should detail each applicant’s specific Program is an entirely free and entirely online program that interest in pursuing the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship pairs experienced writers with high school and secondary Program. What is it about our program and mission that piques students interested in learning more about the creative writing your interest? Why this workshop? How would you spend your processes of drafting, redrafting and editing. The 2018 program time with us? We want to know. Aim for 1.5 pages double spaced, will cater to the literary genres of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. and don’t be afraid to be creative and original. We like that. The aim of the mentorship program is not formalized instruction as with other programs, but rather an individualized, flexible, and While we suggest mentioning experience and accomplishment often informal correspondence. Poetry students will share weekly with writing and workshop, we evaluate applications looking work with mentors and peers, while fiction and nonfiction students primarily for passion and interest. We’d also like to suggest that will share biweekly work with mentors and peers. you review the mission, ambition, and content of the journal for inspiration, if you find yourself stuck. We are very proud of our alumni from this program. Alums have subsequently been recognized through the National YoungArts Students may apply to multiple genres by utilizing both the First Foundation & United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts Choice and Second Choice options in the mentorship application designation, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the form linked below. Important: If you wish to apply to more than Foyle Young Poet of the Year Awards, among others. Click here to one genre, please include two complete writing samples, one for view the mentorship alumni college list. each genre, with your second-choice genre following your first. The program will last from June 24, 2018 until August 4, 2018, The Writing Sample should consist of between four and five poems and will be capped at fifty students. Students must have access to or between eight and ten pages of fiction or nonfiction (excerpts the Internet for the duration of the program, and must be able to acceptable). If you’d like, you may upload an Academic Transcript complete all weekly writing and peer-reviewing activities. to supplement your application. Please note that this opportunity will not offer academic credit Questions? (this is a friendship, not a class!), and that participation in the work- Visit us online: www.theadroitjournal.org/mentorship shop is not a route to publication in the journal. Say hello: [email protected] The Application Submission Details The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program will evaluate As noted, the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program will mentee applications via our submission manager. Applications evaluate mentee applications via our submission manager. for this year’s program will be accepted between March 15, 2018 Applications for this year’s program will be accepted between and May 1, 2018. March 15, 2018 and May 1, 2018. Applications for this year’s mentorship program consist of two Admissions decisions will be released in May, and successful mandatory parts—a Writer’s Statement and a Writing Sample. applicants will be notified by the end of April. MENTOR INDEX 10 Gabrielle Bates : POETRY MENTOR 18 Stevie Edwards : POETRY MENTOR 11 Alyse Bensel : POETRY MENTOR 19 Aidan Forster : POETRY MENTOR 11 Garrett Biggs : FICTION MENTOR 19 Denice Frohman : POETRY MENTOR 12 John-Michael Bloomquist : POETRY MENTOR 20 Melissa Goodrich : FICTION MENTOR 12 Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello : POETRY MENTOR 20 Andrew Gretes : FICTION MENTOR 13 Sylvia Chan : NONFICTION MENTOR 21 Benjamin Gucciardi : POETRY MENTOR 13 Victoria Chang : POETRY MENTOR 21 Jacqueline He : STUDENT ASSISTANT 14 Mario Chard : POETRY MENTOR 22 Ben Hoffman : FICTION MENTOR 14 Chen Chen : POETRY MENTOR 22 Carlie Hoffman : POETRY MENTOR 15 Hannah Cohen : POETRY MENTOR 23 Christina Im : STUDENT ASSISTANT 15 S. Brook Corfman : POETRY MENTOR 23 Kasey Jueds : POETRY MENTOR 16 Kevin Coval : POETRY MENTOR 24 Peter Kispert : FICTION MENTOR 16 Caroline Crew : NONFICTION MENTOR 24 Dan Kraines : POETRY MENTOR 17 Meg Day : POETRY MENTOR 25 Peter LaBerge : FOUNDER & CO-DIRECTOR 17 Dana Diehl : FICTION MENTOR 25 Paige Lewis : POETRY MENTOR 18 Ryan Dzelzkalns : POETRY MENTOR 26 Ananda Lima : FICTION MENTOR MENTOR INDEX 32 : POETRY MENTOR 26 Erinrose Mager : FICTION MENTOR Claire Schwartz 32 : POETRY MENTOR 27 Rachel Inez Marshall : POETRY MENTOR Analicia Sotelo 33 : FICTION MENTOR 27 Rachel Mennies : POETRY MENTOR Glenn Stowell 33 : FICTION MENTOR 28 Carly Joy Miller : CO-DIRECTOR Eshani Surya 34 : POETRY MENTOR 28 Matt W. Miller : POETRY MENTOR John Taylor 34 : POETRY MENTOR 29 Jason Myers : POETRY MENTOR Noah Warren 35 : POETRY MENTOR 29 Natasha Oladokun : POETRY MENTOR Keith S. Wilson 35 : FICTION MENTOR 30 Kwame Opuku-Duku : FICTION MENTOR Jay G. Ying 36 : POETRY MENTOR 30 Ben Purkert : POETRY MENTOR Emily Jungmin Yoon 36 : FICTION MENTOR 31 Doug Ramspeck : POETRY MENTOR Charity Young 31 Brynne Rebele-Henry : FICTION MENTOR WENDI YAN, “TRIPTYCH” (ISSUE TWENTY-FOUR) 2018 ALYSE BENSEL MENTORS Alyse Bensel is a PhD fellow in Literary Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. Her recent poems have appeared in or are forth- coming from Pleiades, New South, Puerto del Sol, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. The author of two chapbooks, Not of Their Own Making (dancing girl press) and Shift (Plan B Press), she serves as the Book Reviews Editor at the Los Angeles Review. Favorite Writers: Elizabeth Bishop, Rita Dove, Sylvia Plath GABRIELLE BATES Gabrielle Bates works at Open Books: A Poem Emporium and serves on the editorial boards of the Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, Broadsided GARRETT Press, and Bull City Press. Her poems and poetry comics appear in Poetry, New England Review, the Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, BIGGS Best of the Net, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of support from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Artist Trust, and the University of Washington, where she received her MFA in Poetry. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she currently lives in Seattle. Garrett Biggs grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His most recent prose has appeared in a wide array of literary journals, including CutBank, Nashville Review, the Offing, SmokeLong Quarterly, New South, and Favorite Writers: elsewhere. He is pursuing his MFA in Fiction at the University of Colorado, Zora Neale Hurston, Shane McCrae, Toni Morrison Boulder, as the recipient of the John F. Barker Memorial Fellowship, and serves as the Managing Editor of the Adroit Journal. Favorite Writers: Anne Carson, Shane Jones, Selah Saterstrom 10 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 11 JOHN-MICHAEL BLOOMQUIST SYLVIA CHAN John-Michael Bloomquist is a poet living in Poland as an English teacher Formerly a jazz pianist in the San Francisco East Bay, Sylvia Chan lives with his wife Victoria Miluch, a writer and translator. He has volunteer in Tucson, where she teaches at the Writing Program at the University of taught poetry at the Monroe County Jail, and he co-edited Poems from Arizona and serves as nonfiction editor for Entropy and court advocate the Jail Dorm, a collection of poetry by incarcerated men published by for foster kids in Pima County. Her first poetry collection, We Remain Monster House Press. His poetry has been recently published in COG, the Traditional, was released from the Center for Literary Publishing in Superstition Review, the Carolina Quarterly, and many more. He has work February 2018. forthcoming from Painted Bride Quarterly, Atticus Review, and Tilde. He is a gift economist at poetryfortrash.com. Favorite Writers: Paul Celan, Alice Notley, Jesmyn Ward Favorite Writers: Sherwin Bitsui, Walt Whitman, Eleanor Wilner MARCI VICTORIA CALABRETTA CHANG CANCIO-BELLO Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (University Victoria Chang’s fourth book of poems, Barbie Chang, was published of Pittsburgh, 2016), which received the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss (McSweeney’s) won the PEN Poetry and the 2016 Florida Book Award Bronze Medal for Poetry. She has Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. Her poems have received poetry fellowships from Kundiman, the Knight Foundation, and been published in Best American Poetry, Poetry, American Poetry Review, the American Literary Translators Association. Her work has appeared in the Nation, New Republic, Kenyon Review, Tin House, and many other Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, the New York Times, and more. places. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017. She serves on the National Book Critics Circle Board and as Teaching Faculty at Antioch University in Los Angeles. Favorite Writers: You can find her at victoriachangpoet.com. Ross Gay, Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes Favorite Books: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw, Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s Song 12 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 13 HANNAH MARIO CHARD COHEN Mario Chard is the author of Land of Fire, selected by Robert Pinsky for Hannah Cohen lives in Virginia. She is the author of the poetry chapbook the 2016 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press. Recent poems have appeared Bad Anatomy (Glass Poetry Press, 2018). She’s a contributing editor for in the New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Winner of the Platypus Press and founding co-editor of Cotton Xenomorph. Recent and “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize and a former Wallace Stegner forthcoming publications include Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Yes Poetry, Fellow at Stanford University, Maario currently teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, Gravel, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.