June 13, 2006
SELINSGROVE, (Pa.) – Aspiring writers from high schools across the country will spend June 25 through July 1 at Susquehanna University tapping their creative spirits and polishing their storytelling abilities. The Advanced Writers Workshop, sponsored by The Writers’ Institute at Susquehanna University, offers young writers the opportunity to work in intensive, small-group sessions led by nationally-recognized authors.
Named a “Best Value in Summer College Programs for High School Students” by Early College Programs 2003, the workshop features sessions on writing fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. Throughout the week, students are engaged in group workshops, individual student/instructor conferences and readings by students, faculty and guest writers. Along the way, these young writers practice their writing skills and learn about college writing programs, literary magazines and publishing software. The workshop concludes with a public reading by the students, allowing them the opportunity to share their work with fellow students, family and friends, and other guests.
Creative writing professors in Susquehanna University’s Department of English and Creative Writing serve as workshop faculty members. They are Gary Fincke, Tom Bailey and Karla Kelsey. Fincke is the director of The Writers’ Institute and coordinator of the Advanced Writers Workshop. A prolific writer in fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, he teaches in all three genres at Susquehanna University. Bailey is a short story writer and novelist currently
publishing under the Shaye Areheart imprint of Random House’s Crown Publishing Group. He teaches fiction and creative nonfiction writing classes. The newest member of the writing faculty, Kelsey teaches courses in poetry, as well as editing and publishing. Each are widely published, award-winning writers.
Guest writers for the week are Betsy Wheeler, the Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry, and Susan Perabo, associate professor of English and writer-in-residence at Dickinson College. Wheeler is co-editor of FlatCity Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such literary journals as Octopus and Brooklyn Review. She is currently working on her first book of poems. Perabo has penned a collection of short stories called Who I Was Suppose To Be and a novel called The Broken Places. Her stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and New Stories from the South.
For more information on The Advanced Writers Workshop, go to http://www.susqu.edu/Writers/HighSchoolStudents.htm, or contact Gary Fincke at 570-372-4164 or gfincke@susqu.edu.
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Contact: Victoria Kidd
570-372-4119
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