Duke Writers Workshop

The Duke University Writers Workshop began in 1978 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 May 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 May 4-8, 2008. This year the courses and faculty include:

• Beginning Your Novel with Darnell Arnoult,
• Memoir with Judy Goldman,
• The Language of Poetry with Michael Chitwood,
• Structure and Scene with Quinn Dalton, and
• Finishing Your Novel with Pamela Duncan

Full details and registration information will be available no later than December 1 at:

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

Also, please pay a visit to our new blog 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.

http://www.dukewriters.blogspot.com/

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)