Annual Creative Writing Conference

Annual Creative Writing Conference For information on the program and how you might be considered for a spot in this program, contact Professor John Casteen: [email protected] program.

2013 Creative Writing Conference, March 21-24

Sweet Briar’s Creative Writing Program is vibrant and energetic, focused on creating an environment where young writers can grow through one-on-one mentoring, peer-review, and access to the inspiring beauty of Sweet Briar’s 3,000-acre campus, and we want you to join us for a long weekend in March to focus on writing and the community of writers. Short

-term intensive residential conferences exist for high school students, graduate students, and independent writers, but generally not for college students. This is an opportunity to take some time away from your ordinary routine to get deeply into your own work; it will also introduce you to some of the best undergraduate writers from colleges and universities all over Virginia, each chosen by faculty nominators. Our goal is to establish a community of writers unlike anything else you would find outside of an M.F.A. Take a look at last year’s schedule and line-up of featured readers for a sense of what to expect. Stay tuned for updates on this year’s line-up.

03/04/2013

Craft Talk Introduces Aja Gabel: “The Supernatural and the Super-real in Story Writing”

When we look for new storytelling territory, some of us who grew up with comic books, fairy tales and science fiction might find ourselves turning to those narrative tropes for inspiration. Karen Russell, Aimee Bender and Kevin Brockmeier are a few story-writers who work in this arena successfully. This discussion and reading will consider ways we might incorporate those slightly more fantastical elements into honest literary fiction, not forgoing real sentiment for cheap sensation.

03/04/2013

Craft Talks Introduces Sierra Bellows: “(Re)Inventing History”

All fiction steals from fact. Stories are grounded in real places or historical epochs, and mannerisms are borrowed from real people. What happens when writers insert historical people into invented narratives? Or even make use of whole episodes lifted from the history books? What is gained — or lost — from an overt pastiche of the real and the imaginary?

Allison Seay’s first book, “To See the Queen,” will be published this spring by Persea Books. Her poems have appeared in...
03/04/2013

Allison Seay’s first book, “To See the Queen,” will be published this spring by Persea Books. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, the Southern Review, Meridian, Arts and Academe and Pleiades. She has enjoyed two retreats at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, Va. She worked for several years at UNC Greensboro as assistant director of the M.F.A. program and associate editor of the Greensboro Review. She has taught at UNC Greensboro, Greensboro College, Lynchburg College and Mary Washington before moving back to Richmond, Va. She is a 2013 National Endowment of the Arts literature fellow and a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Valerie Sayers, chair of the English department at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of six novels, including ...
03/04/2013

Valerie Sayers, chair of the English department at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of six novels, including her most recent, “The Powers.” Her previous novels “Brain Fever” and “Who Do You Love” were named “Notable Books of the Year” by the New York Times Book Review, and a film based on “Due East” and “How I Got Him Back” premiered on Showtime. Her literary honors include a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize and “Notable” and “Distinguished” citations from Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Commonweal, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Image and many other journals.

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