An affordable, intimate alternative to the large summer conferences, offered especially for North Carolina writers but open to writers nationwide. This year's Summer Writing Residency offers intensive workshops and great value, with exciting new faculty in diverse genres, evening readings, and the opportunity for local area residents to commute to their workshops at a reduced cost. The 2009 Summer Writing Residency will begin Friday morning with registration and move-in, followed by lunch together and the first two workshop sessions in the genre of your choice -- Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, or Poetry. This three day-long workshop creates a community of common ground and a safe place to explore the art of refining and polishing your work, as well as opportunities to try something new. Group meals will be followed by faculty readings, allowing participants rare insight into other genres of writing. Morning and afternoon breaks between workshop sessions give writers a leisurely writing period. Evening brings writers together for dinner, followed by "Table Talk" and Open-Mic sessions. Location and HousingThis year the Summer Residency Program will be held on the campus of Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, outside Asheville. (Get directions) On-campus housing is modest but comfortable. Dorm rooms are shared, two residents per room. Sharing a room is a great way to get to know another writer! A limited number of single rooms are available at additional cost. No private bathrooms are available. On-campus housing is not air conditioned, but will be comfortable on cool mountain evenings. Classroom and dining facilities are air-conditioned. RegistrationRegister Online (registration is now closed) We recommend that you register early, particularly if you want to stay on-campus. Workshops are small, dorm space is limited, and they fill fast. Only 50 registrants will be accepted for the Squire Summer Residency. A $250 deposit is required with registration; the balance is due July 9. (Or you're welcome to pay the entire fee at once; we won't mind.) You may register online or by mail or phone. Your registration is not complete until you mail us a copy of your typed workshop manuscript (please see course descriptions for manuscript requirements). If you do not mail in your workshop manuscript with registration, your workshop space may be taken by another registrant, so MAIL IN YOUR WORKSHOP MANUSCRIPT THE SAME DAY THAT YOU REGISTER. CommutersRegistrants who wish to commute daily from home may register at the commuter rate of $400 (for members) or $500 (for non-members). This rate includes all meals Friday - Sunday, attendance at the workshop sessions of your choice, all afternoon and all evening programs and readings. Support for this residency provided by the NC Arts Council and Warren Wilson College.
Faculty Biographies |
 | Cathy Smith Bowers’s work has appeared in publications such as the Atlantic Monthly, the Gettysburg Review, the Georgia Review, Poetry, the Southern Review, andthe Kenyon Review. She served for many years as poet-in-residence at Queens University of Charlotte, where she received the 2002 J. B. Fuqua Distinguished Educator Award. She now teaches in the Queens low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program, and at conferences throughout the United States. Bowers is the author of three collections of poetry: The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas, Texas Tech University Press, 1992; Traveling in Time of Danger, Iris Press, 1999; and A Book of Minutes, Iris Press, 2004. A fourth collection, The Candle I Hold Up to See You,is forthcoming from Iris Press. |
 | Tommy Hays (Fiction) |
 | Catherine Reid (Creative Nonfiction)
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Tension is one of the aspects of a work - whether it be music, painting, sculpture, dance, film, or literature - that distinguishes sophisticated art from kitsch. In this workshop, we will attempt to define the word "tension" and to explore how some of our most highly respected poets have achieved tension in their poems. We will also explore ways we can enhance the tension in every aspect of our own poems.
Each registrant should submit five pages of poems, no more than one poem per page, by July 8. Participants should submit poems they consider to be in progress or poems they are willing to reconsider.
Please send writing samples to NCWN, P.O. Box 21591, Winston-Salem, NC, 27120.
This will be a general fiction workshop in which various aspects of the craft will be discussed in the context of submitted manuscripts and possibly some published work, as well, with a special emphasis on the importance of place in fiction. Registrants should come prepared to discuss specific challenges they face in the process of writing fiction, and to complete exercises which may be assigned during the workshop. Reading Josip Novakovich's book Fiction Writer's Workshop prior to the residency is recommended, but not required.
Registrants should submit one short story, or the first chapter from a novel-in-progress, by July 8. All samples should be double-spaced, on one side per sheet.
Please send writing samples to NCWN, P.O. Box 21591, Winston-Salem, NC, 27120.
In this workshop, we will explore various elements of this exciting genre, from voice and veracity to a heightened attention to language and form. Participants will engage in a series of writing exercises, discussions about published work, and experiments with revision; they will leave with a handful of lyrical mini-essays and a refined sense of what constitutes well-crafted creative nonfiction.
Registrants should submit 10 pages of prose by July 8.This submission may be one of the following: a single part of a longer work; one self-contained work; 2 excerpts from 2 longer works; 2 short, self-contained works.In any case, the submission should not exceed 10 pages.
Please send writing samples to NCWN, P.O. Box 21591, Winston-Salem, NC, 27120.
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Friday, July 24
9 am – 11 am: Registration
11:30 am – 1 pm: Welcome Lunch
1 – 2:30 pm: Workshop Session I
2:30 – 3 pm: Break
3 – 4:30 pm: Workshop Session II
4:30 – 5:30 pm: Break
5:30 – 6 pm: Faculty Reading with Cathy Smith Bowers
6 – 7:30 pm: Dinner
7:30 – 8:30 pm: Table Talk with Publishers & Booksellers
8:30 – 9:30 pm: Open Mike Readings
Saturday, July 25
8 – 9 am: Breakfast
9 – 10:30 am: Workshop Session III
10:30 – 11 am: Break
11 am – 12:30 pm: Workshop Session IV
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 – 2 pm: Faculty Reading with Tommy Hays
2 – 3:30 pm: Workshop Session V
3:30 – 4 pm: Break
4 – 5:30 pm: Workshop Session VI
5:30 – 6:30 pm: Break
6:30 – 8 pm: Picnic
8 – 8:30 pm: Faculty Reading with Catherine Reid
8:30 – 9:30 pm: Open Mike Readings
Sunday, July 26
8 – 9 am: Breakfast
9 – 10:30 am: Workshop Session VII
10:30 – 11 am: Break
11 am – 12:30 pm: Workshop Session VIII
12:30 – 1 pm: Closing
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You must send two copies of your workshop manuscript with your registration:
The manuscripts will allow us to be sure you are in the right workshop and to send your work to your faculty leader in advance.
You are responsible for bringing enough copies of your manuscript to the workshop. We will inform you of the size of your class in advance.
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Hats Off to Rosemary Royston, whose poem, "Where I'm From," has been accepted by the Southern Poetry Review. She thanks George Ella Lyon for the inspiration; the upcoming issue features Georgia poets. |
| Tue, May 21st Marilynn Barner Anselmi Production |
| Tue, May 21st, @3:00pm - 05:00PM Debra Kaufman Production |
| Tue, May 21st, @7:00pm - 09:00PM Rebecca McClanahan Reading |
| Wed, May 22nd Marilynn Barner Anselmi Production |
| Wed, May 22nd, @12:00pm - 02:00PM Jill McCorkle Reading |
