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2012 SUNY SOUTHAMPTON WINTER WRITER’S WORKSHOP

FUA will host SUNY Southampton’s graduate level winter workshop in January 2012. Chosen for the Florence location that inspired writers from Dante to Dostoevsky, FUA will welcome MFA-level writers for a 9-day conference focusing on creative writing taught and practiced at daily morning workshops. The diverse faculty team will feature the collaborative efforts of SUNY Southampton and FUA lecturers from diverse international and professional backgrounds. The program is supported by field trips, food writing, an evening at the opera, and forays into Italian culture and literature.

Featured SUNY faculty:

FICTION (Short Story, Novel) - Meg Wolitzer is the author of nine novels, including The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Wolitzer has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Columbia University, Skidmore College, the University of Houston, Boston University and Barnard College.  In September, her children's book The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman will be published.  

FAMILIAR ESSAY - David Rakoff is the author of the essay collections Half Empty, Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortable. He is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's "This American Life," Outside Magazine, and is writer-at-large for GQ. He has also written for The New York Observer, The New York Times Magazine, Salon, Slate, Seed Magazine, and Wired, among others.

Program Dates: Jan 12 – 21, 2012

For program information and contacts, please visit the SUNY Southampton page.