Classes, Workshops

Now Accepting Applications for Writers in Paradise 2008

Join best-selling authors, Ann Hood (The Knitting Circle), Dennis Lehane
(Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone), Laura Lippman (What the Dead Know) and Richard Price (The Wanderers, Clockers, and Freedomland) for the Fourth Annual Writers in Paradise Writers' Conference which will take place on the shores of Boca Ciega Bay at Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg, Florida, January 19-27, 2008.

This intensive eight-day experience features lectures on craft, informal
roundtable discussions with faculty, daily workshop classes for
faculty-led critiquing of student work (each workshop capped at twelve
participants), additional individual manuscript consultations, student
readings, faculty readings, receptions and more. Our award-winning
faculty and guest speakers will also include Lexy Bloom, Beth Ann
Fennelly, Tom Franklin, Lisa Gallagher, Peter Meinke, Roland Merullo,
Thisbe Nissen, David Hale Smith, Les Standiford and Sterling Watson.

“The Best Of” this year’s conference selected from student manuscripts
will be recognized on the last night of our Evening Reading Series.
These works will be published in Sabal – A Literary Review Featuring the
Best Writing of the Writers in Paradise Conference at Eckerd College. A
list of previous winners can be viewed here.

Participants will also have the opportunity to have individual
manuscript consultations with noted author and teacher, Les Standiford.

Scholarships are available.

A few words from a former participant:

"Writers in Paradise provided the most beneficial classroom experience I
ever received, and its impact upon my writing was immediate and
profound. It is one of the best conferences in the country, and a rare
opportunity for a writer's education and growth."

- Michael Koryta, 2005 & 2006 WIP Participant and 2007 Quill Award
Nominee (A Welcome Grave)

To learn more about Writers in Paradise and to help us continue the
success of a conference committed to teaching the craft of fine writing,
please visit www.writersinparadise.com and download your application
materials today.

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