Duke University Writers Workshop September 28 to October 2, 2009 at Wildacres Retreat

The Duke University Writers Workshop began in 1979 under the leadership of novelist Lee Smith working in conjunction with Duke Continuing Studies. This summer program has always welcomed beginning and experienced writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. From time to time the workshop also may offer special sections devoted to children's writing, memoir, historical fiction, playwriting, and other genres.

We count among our faculty over these nearly 30 years many internationally distinguished writers, including Duke's own Reynolds Price, UNC's emerita professor Doris Betts, poets Sir Stephen Spender and William Stafford, memoirist and poet Kelly Cherry, and novelists Elizabeth Cox and Russell Banks, to name a few who came to teach when the workshop was held on Duke's campus.

Today the workshop is held in at the end of September at a beautiful retreat center in the North Carolina mountains, and a regular band of rotating faculty offer intensive small-group sessions. We are known for the generosity and collegiality of our faculty.

This year's workshop is scheduled for September 28 to October 2, 2009. This year the courses and faculty include:

• Finishing Your Novel with Darnell Arnoult
• Creative Nonfiction and Personal Essay with Alton Ballance
• Structure and Scene with Abigail DeWitt
• Writing Memoir: Plagarizing from Real Life
  with Judy Goldman
• Women's Writing Intensive with Zelda Lockhart

Full details and registration information are available at:

http://www.learnmore.duke.edu/writers/workshop/

Also, please pay a visit to our FACEBOOK page (Duke University Writers Workshop) where we will let you know what our faculty members are doing, what participants have to say about the workshop, and other resources that may be useful to you in your writing.

If you have questions, please contact Georgann Eubanks, Director.

RECENT FACULTY AT THE WORKSHOP


L-R: Judy Goldman, Darnell Arnoult,
Ginger Collins (participant), Abigail DeWitt

L-R: Michael Parker, Bill Henderson,
Michael Chitwood

Joseph Bathanti and Alice Johnson (participant)