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Annual Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers Please join us in creating a community of writers in bucolic, convivial, and historic setting. Small workshops (maximum of ten people each) will be led by award-winning writers who have dedicated their lives to the teaching of poetry and prose. Conference Details: Workshops: Four three-hour, single-genre workshops will focus on the critique and revision of participant writing. Panel Discussions: Panel presentations by conference faculty and Review staff will provide opportunities for conference participants to talk with working writers and editors about craft, genre, and publishing topics. Readings: Author readings and book signings will be offered in the evenings, with one evening reserved for an open-mic conference participant reading. Admission: Conference admission will be based on the date of application and the quality of materials submitted. Application Deadlines: Applications must be received by May 12, 2008. Scholarship applications must be postmarked by March 17, 2008. Scholarships: Two partial scholarships will be awarded in each genre, based on merit and financial need. Housing & Meals: We offer optional on-campus housing in apartment-style residences featuring central air-conditioning, private bedrooms, a kitchen, common area, and shared bathroom (two people per bathroom). Conference participants may choose to reserve their own accommodations; please note that area hotels fill rapidly in the summer and are often booked months in advance. The conference registration fee includes continental breakfast on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday prior to workshops. An optional lunch-only meal plan is available. Cost: Conference registration fee: $685; On-campus housing: $275/five nights; Lunch-only meal card: $35/four lunches. To register: Go to the Forms page, print them out, and return them to us with your deposit. For more information: Contact Kim Dana Kupperman at 717-337-6774, or by e-mail at kkupperm@gettysburg.edu.
FACULTY Lee K. Abbott (fiction) “A true American original, the owner of an unmistakable voice--at once funny, wise, loopy, and utterly unique.” -- Tom Perrotta Lee K. Abbott is the author of seven collections of short stories, All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories; Dreams of Distant Lives; Strangers in Paradise; Love Is the Crooked Thing; The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting; Living After Midnight; and Wet Places at Noon.He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a granf from the Ohio Arts Council. He is a recipient of the 2004 Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He teaches at Ohio State University. G.K. Wuori (fiction) “Wuori's real gift lies in his dark humor, oddball casting and ability to choreograph and perfectly capture those precise and often-camouflaged moments in a life when everything changes.” –Publisher’s Weekly Terrance Hayes (poetry) His “poems explode with the euphoria of summer lightning for our instruction and joy.” --John Ashbery Terrance Hayes is the author of Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. He has received a Whiting Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.
Suzannah Lessard (nonfiction) “A penetrating eye, a deep memory, and a compassionate heart.” --Washington Post Book World Suzannah Lessard is the author of The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family, which won the 1996 Whiting Writers Award. From 1975 to 1995, she was a staff writer for the New Yorker; prior to that, she was a writer/editor of the Washington Monthly. She teaches in the New School MFA and the Goucher College MFA. Rebecca McClanahan (nonfiction) “Lyrical, compelling, and passionate.” --Kim Barnes Rebecca McClanahan is the author of The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings (which won the 2005 Glasgow Award), five volumes of poetry, and three books about writing, including Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Poetry’s Wood Prize, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and (twice), Shenandoah’s Carter Prize for the essay. She teaches in the Queens University MFA Program, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Hudson Valley Writers’s Center. Peggy Shumaker (poetry) “Mind jolted out of time, her lyrical shards of memory point us toward compassion.” --Judith Kitchen Peggy Shumaker is the author of five collections of poetry, Blaze, Underground Rivers, Wings Moist from the Other World, The Circle of Totems, Braided River, and Esperanza's Hair, and a collection of nonfiction, Just Breathe Normally. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Usibelli Award for Distinguished Teaching. She teaches in Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier MFA Writing Workshop.If you have any questions or comments about this Web site and its contents, please contact the Webmaster. 
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