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Tin House Summer Writers Workshop

PO Box 10500

Portland, OR 97296

Website: www.tinhouse.com/workshop

Conference contact: Cheston Knapp

Phone: (503)-219-0622

Email: workshop@tinhouse.com

Conference date(s): July 11-18

Registration deadline: Rolling Admission/Scholarship Deadline March 15

Location: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Genres: Short Fiction, Novel Writing, Memoir, Poetry

Workshop size: twelve per workshop

College credit available: no

Cost: $1000 for registrations postmarked on or before May 1, 2010
$1100 for registrations postmarked on or before July 10, 2010

Scholarships available: yes, see website

Contests: no

Faculty: Robert Boswell, Antonya Nelson. D.A. Powell, Nick Fynn, David Shields

Recent faculty: Steve Almond, Charles D’Ambrosio, Anthony Doerr, Ann Hood, Elissa Schappell

Guest authors: Robert Boswell, Whitney Otto, David Leavitt, Karen Russell, Joy Williams

Conference description: The Tin House Summer Writers Workshop is a weeklong intensive of workshops, seminars, panels, and readings led by the editors of Tin House magazine and Tin House Books and their guests – prominent contemporary American writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The program combines morning workshops with afternoon craft seminars and career panels. Evenings are reserved for author readings.

Tin House editors and guest agents are available to meet individually with students throughout the week. For students who have completed a collection of stories or poems, a memoir, or a novel, one-on-one mentorships are available with select faculty and staff for an additional fee.

Workshops meet for six sessions, Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Each workshop will have no more than twelve students and will treat two to three manuscripts per session. If you have questions about which faculty member would best suit your work, call our office at 503-219-0622 and we will make every effort to steer you to the workshop most appropriate for your skill level and the content of your work. Please continue to check the Web site for updates on new faculty or call our office for details.