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The inaugural Retreat was hosted at the University of Virginia in 2004. [10] Later, in 2010, Kundiman and Fordham University formed a partnership in which the Kundiman Retreat would be hosted on the Rose Hill campus, while Kundiman-sponsored readings and events would happen at the Lincoln Center campus. Additionally, Fordham would provide ...
She also implored Jinghuan to bring a purple coffee mug she received when she went on a writing retreat last year in the Oregon mountains — a token Jinghuan had kept as a reminder of the bliss ...
Hedgebrook is a rural retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island, Washington, founded in 1988. Hedgebrook's artist-in-residence program accepts up to 80 writers each year, who spend two to four weeks in residence working on their diverse writing projects. [1] [2] Each writer stays in her own hand-crafted cottage.
Los Angeles Writers Retreat, Los Angeles [98] Mad Anthony Writers' Conference, Hamilton, Ohio [99] Malice Domestic, Bethesda, Maryland [100] Meet the Publishers!, Tulsa, Oklahoma [101] Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, Fort Bragg, California [102] Michigan Writing Workshop, Livonia, Michigan [103] Minnesota Writing Workshop, Minneapolis [104]
Writing for The New York Times in 2015, Stephen Burt described Cave Canem as "a major incubator for the current renaissance in black poetry, which includes the poets Tracy K. Smith, who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; Afaa Michael Weaver, who won the Kingsley Tufts prize last year; and, most recently, Claudia Rankine, who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry this year."
At the memorial service for historian and writer Michael King in 2004, Gordon McLauchlan suggested that a writers' centre in King's name should be set up. [8] The centre was established through a charitable trust; together with McLauchlan, founding trustees included Christine Cole Catley, [9] Witi Ihimaera and Geoff Chapple.
Of those accepted, 170 students pay full fare. These people are called Contributors (because they contribute to the workshops with their writing). The New Yorker wrote that the most coveted scholarships to Bread Loaf are the 25 "Waiterships", in which promising writers earn their keep by serving three meals a day to the paying guests. Besides ...
For 40 years, Aspen Summer Words has hosted over 300 writers who have read, taught and performed for 20,000+ audience members and students. ASW literati have included an international cast of authors — Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Awardees, and many other notable and bestselling writers — who each year transform Aspen into the Rocky Mountain gateway to the ...