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The 2007 Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers The Gettysburg Review is pleased to announce an inaugural Conference for Writers, to be held June 6-11, 2007, on the campus of Gettysburg College. We invite you to join us in creating a community of writers in a bucolic, convivial, and historic setting. Small workshops (maximum ten people per workshop) will be led by award-winning writers who have dedicated their lives to the teaching of poetry and prose. All registered conference participants will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to The Gettysburg Review. THE PROGRAM Arrival and Departure Workshops, Panels, and Readings ADMISSION & SCHOLARSHIPS HOUSING COST APPLICATIONS FOR MORE INFORMATION OUR DISTINGUISHED FACULTY Poetry Dean Young is the author of embryoyo (forthcoming in January 2007), Skid, First Course in Turbulence, Strike Anywhere, Design with X, and Beloved Infidel. He is the recipient of a Stegner fellowship from Stanford, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His poems have appeared three times in The Best American Poetry series. He is on the permanent faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and also teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA program. Alice Friman is the author of a new collection of poems, The Book of the Rotten Daughter from BkMk Press. Her work has appeared in Boulevard, the Georgia Review, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her last book, Zoo (University of Arkansas Press), won the Ezra Pound Poetry Award from Truman State University and the Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club. She is Poet in Residence at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Nonfiction Rebecca McClanahan is the author of The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, which won the 2005 Glasgow Award for nonfiction. She has also published four volumes of poetry (most recently Naked as Eve) and three books about the writing craft, including Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Poetry, Boulevard, the Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, and numerous anthologies, and her awards include a Pushcart Prize in fiction, the Wood prize from Poetry, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in nonfiction, and (twice) the Carter prize for the essay from Shenandoah. She teaches in the MFA Program at Queens University in Charlotte, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center. Robert Atwan is series editor of The Best American Essays, which he founded in 1985. In addition to editing several anthologies and textbooks, his essays and reviews have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, the Iowa Review, the Kenyon Review, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and River Teeth. He has served as a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, and has judged the AWP Award for creative nonfiction. He is the director of the Blue Hills Writing Institute at Curry College, where he is a visiting professor. Fiction Joan Connor has published three collections of short stories, Here on Old Route 7, We Who Live Apart, and History Lessons, which won the 2002 AWP Award in Short Fiction. Her collection of essays, The World Before Mirrors won the 2006 River Teeth prize in nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Chelsea, Glimmer Train, the Journal, the Kenyon Review, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council grant, a Pushcart Prize, the John Gilgun Award, and the Ohio Writer Award in fiction and nonfiction. She is a full professor in fiction writing at Ohio University and a faculty member at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program. Clint McCown has published three novels, The Member-Guest, War Memorials, and The Weatherman, and two collections of poems, Sidetracks and Wind Over Water. He has worked as a screenwriter for Warner Brothers, a broadcast journalist, and as an actor for the National Shakespeare Company. He is the recipient of the S. Mariella Gable Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Award, an AP Award for Documentary Excellence, and two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize, and has twice won the American Fiction Prize. He is a former editor of Indiana Review, and founder of the Beloit Fiction Journal, which he edited for twenty years. He teaches in the creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program.
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