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Gell Summer Intensive
July 8, 2017 @ EST 12:00 am
$320
In these one-day intensive workshops, students will immerse themselves in the study of their chosen genre with some of the area’s top writers and teachers. This intensive includes four hours of workshops with peers, one craft lecture, and one publishing panel to discuss topics ranging from “How do I land an agent?” to “Should I submit to literary contests?” Registration for this advanced-level intensive is by application only; students who wish to participate must submit 8-10 pages of their best work to Writers & Books by June 19. Accepted students will be notified by June 26. Some partial, needs-based scholarships will be available. To apply, fill out the form at wab.org. All meals will be provided. Price: $280 W&B members; $320 General Public (all nonmembers who pay this rate will receive an individual membership to Writers & Books) How to Apply: * 8-10 pages of your best work to submissions@wab.org (include “Gell Summer Intensive” in the subject line) by June 19. Students will be notified of acceptance by June 26. * There is no fee to apply to the intensive. Once accepted, students must pay in full to be registered. The Gell Summer Intensives occur on three separate weekends; students can apply to be part of multiple intensives, but must submit work for each and pay separately if selected. * If students wish to apply for a partial scholarship, they must complete the scholarship application form. * Once students have paid their tuition and registered for the Gell Summer Intensive, they must submit a story/poem/essay of no more than 15 pages to be read by students and faculty before the workshop.
Poetry Faculty (July 8)
Ralph Black has published a collection of poetry: Turning Over the Earth, from Milkweed Editions, and a chapbook, The Apple Psalms. He is the recipient of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review and the Chelsea Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Georgia and Gettysburg Reviews, Orion, and West Branch. He teaches English and creative writing at SUNY, College at Brockport. Sarah Freligh is the author of Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize and the 2015 Whirling Prize from the University of Indianapolis. Other books include A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, winner of the Editor’s Choice award from Accents Publishing, and Sort of Gone, a book of poems that follows the rise and fall of a fictional pitcher named Al Stepansky. Among her awards are a 2009 poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation in 2006. Lytton Smith is the author of two poetry collections from Nightboat Books, a chapbook from the Poetry Society of America, and the translator of six novels and memoirs from the Icelandic. He is Assistant Professor of English at State University of New York in Geneseo.
Nonfiction Faculty (July 22)
JR Fenn’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in places such as Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, PANK, Cosmopolitan, and The Atlantic, and can be found at www.jrfenn.com. Her writing has received support from the Key West Literary Seminars. She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Geneseo. Sejal Shah’s stories, essays, and interviews have appeared widely in publications including Brevity, The Huffington Post, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, Rochester Magazine, and AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle. She teaches creative nonfiction and fiction at Writers & Books and the University of Rochester, and works with students privately as a writing mentor. Stephen J. West’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Baltimore Review, Brevity, PANK, and Fugue, among others, and he was a featured artist by Ninth Letter, who published his artist’s book DIY View-Master: Intimate Space. Prior to moving to Rochester and becoming Writer-in-Residence at St. John Fisher College, Stephen earned an MFA from the University of Iowa and spent ve years teaching at West Virginia University.
Fiction Faculty (July 29)
Kristen Gentry is from Louisville, Kentucky and received her MFA from Indiana University. She currently lives in Rochester, NY near SUNY Geneseo where she is an associate professor of English and the director of creative writing. Her short stories have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Jabberwock Review, and other journals. She is at work completing Mama Said, a collection of linked stories that explore mother-daughter relationships strained by the mothers’ drug addictions. Anne Panning’s novel, Butter, was published in 2012 by Switchgrass Books. She has published two short story collections: The Price of Eggs and Super America, which won The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. She has also published short fiction and non-fiction in numerous literary journals including Beloit Fiction Journal, Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, New Letters, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, and many others. Her forthcoming memoir, Dragonfly Notes, will be published in 2018 by Stillhouse Press. She teaches creative writing at State University of New York in Brockport. Stephen Schottenfeld has published a novel, Bluff City Pawn, with Bloomsbury USA. He has completed a story collection, Miss Ellen Jameson Is Not Deceased, and he is currently at work on his next novel. His stories have been published in numerous literary magazines and have garnered a Michener/Copernicus Society of America grant, a Halls Fiction Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and special mentions in both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories anthologies. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Rochester.