2011 SCHOLARSHIPS to New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College

To Teachers of Creative Writing:

Several generous gifts and the Institute's commitment to access and diversity enable us to launch a scholarship competition each year. The competition is open to students enrolled full-time in undergraduate or graduate programs who are nominated by their creative writing instructors. In 2010 the Institute awarded full tuition scholarships to forty students from, among other institutions, Brooklyn College-CUNY, Agnes Scott College, USC, Webster Univ., UVirginia, Brown University, Stanford University, UMontana, Connecticut College, University of Rochester, Boston University, University of Michigan, Sarah Lawrence, UCincinatti, UArkansas, College of St. Rose-Albany, UNorth Carolina, Trinity College, Williams College, Texas State Univ.,Yale University, Wellesley College, Washington University, University of Oregon, University of Miami, Ohio State University, UCAL-Irvine, UCAL-Berkeley, UMASS-Boston, San Francisco State, and Florida State.

This year the scholarships are offered for two-week and four-week workshops—July 4-July 29, 2011-- in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Our teaching staff includes the following writers:

FICTION: Marilynne Robinson, Rick Moody, Andrea Barrett, Amy Hempel, Siri Hustvedt,
Joseph O’ Neill, Mary Gaitskill, Danzy Senna, Howard Norman, Elizabeth Benedict, Victoria Redel.

POETRY: Carolyn Forche, Frank Bidart, Henri Cole, Campbell McGrath, Peg Boyers.

NON-FICTION: Phillip Lopate, James Miller.

VISITING WRITERS: Michael Ondaatje, Paul Auster, Robert Pinsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks, Charles Simic, Caryl Phillips, Jamaica Kincaid, Francine Prose, Mark Strand, Anne Beattie, Richard Howard, William Kennedy, Honor Moore, Katha Pollitt, Mary Gordon, others.

To nominate students, send an email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> indicating the names and email addresses—please be sure the emails are current-- of those you recommend to us. Up to six nominated students from each writing instructor are welcome.  We are of course looking for particularly strong writers, and hope also to increase the diversity of our student body with a special “Minority Student Scholarship,” in addition to our “Collegiate Scholarship.”

All faculty nominations must be received – AT THE LATEST – by March 1st.  All student applications are due by March 10th. Scholarships will be awarded by MARCH 20th. The names of scholarship award winners, along with their schools, will be announced to all applicants on or around MARCH 20th.

Program applications and further information on New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College may be found by following the links to the Writers Institute from this web site: www.skidmore.edu/summer<http://www.skidmore.edu/summer> .  Click on Summer Programs and Conferences, and then select Writers Institute in the list of programs that appears.

Many thanks and best wishes,
Robert Boyers, Director, New York State Summer Writers Institute
Professor of English, Skidmore College
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Margaret Luongo
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor, Creative Writing
Miami University
Department of English
356 Bachelor Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-3237
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