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The Conference will offer its customary Walter E. Dakin Fellowships and Tennessee Williams Scholarships, as well as awards in the memory of John N. Wall, Howard Nemerov, Peter Taylor, and Stanley Elkin. Additional scholarships have been made possible this year by Georges and Anne Borchardt and Gail Hochman. Every participant — whether contributor, scholar, or fellow — receives financial support. |
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From July 13 through 25, 2004, the University of the South will host the fifteenth session of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Supported by the Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund established through the estate of the late Tennessee Williams, the Conference will gather a distinguished faculty to provide instruction and criticism through workshops and craft lectures in fiction, poetry, and playwriting. The regular faculty will include fiction writers Richard Bausch, Diane Johnson, Randall Kenan, Margot Livesey, Jill McCorkle, Claire Messud, Tim O'Brien, and Francine Prose; and poets Andrew Hudgins, Alan Shapiro, Dave Smith, and Mark Strand. Romulus Linney and Hilary Bell will work with participants interested in playwriting. In addition, a group of distinguished writers, critics, agents, and visitors will take part. Those who will discuss writing from the point of view of editing or publishing will include Georges and Anne Borchardt (Georges Borchardt Literary Agency), Kathryn Court (Penguin), Morgan Entrekin (Grove/Atlantic), Gary Fisketjon (Alfred A. Knopf), Mary Flinn (New Virginia Review and Blackbird), Gail Hochman (Brandt & Hochman Literary Agency), T. R. Hummer (Georgia Review), John Kulka (Best New American Voices), David Lynn (Kenyon Review), Glyn Maxwell (New Republic), Meghan O'Rourke (Slate), Kathy Pories (Algonquin), Willard Spiegelman (Southwest Review), and John Sullivan (Harper's). Greg Williams, whose novel is the most recent volume in the Sewanee Writers' Series, will share a reading hour with poet Charles Martin, also a Series author. Emily Morse, playwright and Literary Services Director with New Dramatists, will visit to meet with playwrights. Poet Anthony Hecht will give a reading, and his lifetime of work will be celebrated by poets Rick Kenney, Brad Leithauser, Wyatt Prunty, and Mary Jo Salter, who will also read from their own work. Fiction writers Barry Hannah, Janet Peery, and Elwood Reid will visit to give readings.