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Andrea Wise awise@skidmore.edu Skidmore College 518-580-5736 www.skidmore.edu 815 N. Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 |
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -– For 23 years, the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College has provided credit and non-credit courses in fiction, non-fiction prose, and poetry writing with a distinguished faculty of acclaimed writers, under the direction of Robert Boyers, professor of English at Skidmore.
Scheduled this year from June 29 to July 24, the Summer Writers Institute also offers a rich schedule of free readings and discussions by participating and guest writers. Boyers noted that the list of participants for this summer features three recent poet laureates of the United States (Robert Pinsky, Louise Glück, and Charles Simic), Pulitzer Prize-winners Richard Howard and Carl Dennis, MacArthur Foundation “genius” award-winner Campbell McGrath, and Lamont Poetry Prize-winner Carolyn Forché.
In addition, the following participating novelists have won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in fiction: Marilynne Robinson (Gilead), William Kennedy (Ironweed), [...]
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