The
Squire Summer Writing Residency is the Network’s smallest and most intensive
conference. Admission is limited to the first fifty registrants who sign up for
one of three three-day workshops:
- Poetry with Kathryn
Stripling Byer, North Carolina’s first woman Poet Laureate. Byer has
published six full-length collections of poetry, including Descent
(LSU Press, 2012), her most recent. A re-print of her first, the AWP
Award-winning The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest, is forthcoming
from Press 53. Her work has appeared in many journals and newspapers,
including The Atlantic, Hudson Review, Boston Globe,
and Georgia Review.
- Fiction with
Elizabeth Lutyens. Lutyens returned to her native North Carolina after a
career in the Boston area as a journalist in print and television. Her
novel-in-progress, Medicine Island, was a semi-finalist in the 2011
William Faulkner – Wisdom Competition. A faculty member of the Great
Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville since 2006, she currently teaches
its by-invitation Prose Master Class and is editor-in-chief of its online
literary magazine, The Great Smokies Review.
- Creative
Nonfiction with Catherine Reid. Reid is the author of Coyote:
Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst (Houghton Mifflin) and Falling into
Place (forthcoming from Beacon Press); she has also edited two
anthologies and served as editor of nonfiction for a literary journal. Her
essays have appeared in such journals as Georgia Review, Massachusetts
Review, Fourth Genre, and Bellevue Literary Review. She
is currently the director of creative writing at Warren Wilson College,
where she specializes in literary nonfiction and environmental writing.
The
Residency will begin on Thursday evening, July 11, with registration and
check-in. Workshops begin on Friday morning, July 12, and continue until the
early afternoon of July 14. The Residency will also feature panel discussions
and readings by faculty and attendees.
Registrants
also will enjoy meals together and have the option of staying overnight in
on-campus accommodations.
“The
small class sizes and extended, intensive format of the Squire Summer Writing
Residency makes it especially safe for writers to share their work, get to know
other writers, and find inspiration,” NCWN executive director Ed Southern said.
Registration
is available online at www.ncwriters.org or by
calling 336-293-8844.
The nonprofit North Carolina Writers’ Network is the state’s oldest and largest
literary arts services organization devoted to writers at all stages of
development. For additional information, visit www.ncwriters.org.
