2010 Writers Conference

 

Work on your unfinished novel, short stories, creative nonfiction, or poetry collection. Workshops and craft talks help you revise and continue writing you’ve already begun and inspire new projects and get you started on them. Writing sessions help you generate new work, encouraging you to stretch your abilities in your chosen genre or try a new or less familiar one. You have ample time to meet individually with members of the faculty and visiting writers for consultations on aspects of your work you wish considered. 2010 faculty includes:  

 

William Doreski has written numerous books of poetry, criticism, and memoir. His nonfiction work includes The Sun Keeps Setting, about the last months of his father's life. An English professor, he has taught creative writing at Keene State College since 1982.

 

Jeff Friedman, whose fourth collection of poetry, Black Threads, was recently published by Carnegie Mellon University press. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Republic, and many other literary journals. He is a core faculty member in the MFA program in poetry writing at New England College.

 

Laurie Alberts, author of three novels, a story collection, and two memoirs. Her most recent book, Between Revolutions: An American Romance with Russia, was published in 2005. She received a Michener Award for the Novel, The Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Prize for short story, and an American Fiction award, among other awards. Alberts attended the Iowa Writers Workshop and now teaches fiction and creative nonfiction in the Vermont College master of fine arts and writing program.

 

Roy Nathanson, internationally acclaimed jazz composer and saxophonist.  Roy concentrates on combining text and music in a variety of ways:  writing songs for performers such as Elvis Costello, Jeff Buckley, and Deborah Harry; a radio play for NPR, and recording with his singing, talking, and playing band Sotto Voce. 

 

Dzvinia Orlowsky, founding editor of Four Way Books and author of four poetry collections including her forthcoming Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones. Her translation from Ukrainian of Alexander Dovzhenko’s novella, The Enchanted Desna, was recently published by House Between Water Collections. Orlowsky is a 2006 Pushcart Prize winner and a 1998 Massachusetts Cultural Council poetry grant recipient, and is a faculty member of the Low-Residency Solstice MFA Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College.

Celia Bland, poet. Her most recent series of poems, Captions for Cartoons Not Yet Drawn, were among the finalists for the Center for Book Arts chapbook prize. Her 2004 collection, Soft Box, received the silver medal for poetry by ForeWord magazine. Bland’s poems appeared in Shenandoah, Natural Bridge, Heliotrope, Entelechy, Prima Matera, and Sui Generis and in anthologies published by Faber and Faber, Oxford Poetry, and Persea Books. Dean of studies at Bard College, Bland teaches poetry and first year seminar at Bard.