Here’s a recent annoucement from Summer Literary Seminars (SLS):
Join Summer Literary Seminars in Montreal, Lithuania, or Kenya in 2011 and work with some of the world’s most dynamic writers as part of an intimate and unique cultural experience. We have two contests ongoing, an exciting Litvak Studies/Jewish Lithuania parallel program in Vilnius, an expanded Montreal program, and our registration in now open!
Visit http://www.sumlitsem.org/ for complete details and requirements.
Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) is announcing its annual unified (Montreal, Lithuania and Kenya) literary contest, held this year in affiliation with Fence Magazine. Judges are Mary Gaitskill (judging fiction) and Mary Jo Bang (judging poetry).
Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in Fence, as well as the participating literary journals in Canada, Lithuania and Kenya. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any one of the SLS-2010 programs – in Montreal, Quebec (June 13 – 27); Vilnius, Lithuania (August 1 – 14); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December).
Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.
A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the SLS-2010 programs.
Contest Deadline: February 28, 2010.
See the full contest guidelines here.
The 2009 Summer Literary Seminars-Kenya program (Nairobi-Lamu; December 13-28) is currently accepting applications. Visit the program’s website — www.sumlitsem.org/kenya — for all the details.
Individuals who were offered SLS Literary Contest merit fellowships in the past — between 2005-2009 – can apply them to this year’s program. Former SLS participants are eligible for a partial tuition waiver.
The SLS-Kenya program presents participants with a chance to work with some of the most interesting North-American and East-African writers and see the endlessly complex and fascinating country of Kenya “from within,” in close contact with the local literary and artistic community. SLS-Kenya is developed in close cooperation with the local writers, artists and scholars.
SLS-Writing Kenya will feature talks, lectures, discussions, guided tours presented, both in Nairobi and on the island of Lamu, by a number of East Africa’s, leading writers, poets, artists, literary scholars, editors, musicians and filmmakers of the new generation.
Direct questions to keith@sumlitsem.org or mike@sumlitsem.org.
SLS (Summer Literary Seminars) is pleased to announce its 2010 unified (SLS-Montreal, SLS-Lithuania, and SLS-Kenya) literary contest, held this year again in affiliation with Fence Magazine.
Mary Gaitskill is judging the contest fiction, and Mary Jo Bang is judging the poetry.
Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in Fence, as well as the participating literary journals in Canada, Lithuania and Kenya. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any of the SLS-2010 programs – in Montreal, Quebec (June 13 – 27); Vilnius, Lithuania (August 1 – 14); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December).
Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.
A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the SLS-2010 programs.
Contest Deadline: February 28, 2010.
Please vist the SLS website for detailed information on how to enter: http://www.sumlitsem.org/slscontest.html