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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 12 through 24, 2005, the University of the South will host the sixteenth 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, John Casey, Tony Earley, Randall Kenan, Margot Livesey, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, and Mark Winegardner; and poets John Hollander, X. J. Kennedy, Brad Leithauser, and Mary Jo Salter. Romulus Linney and Daisy Foote 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), George Core (Sewanee Review), Morgan Entrekin (Grove/Atlantic), Gary Fisketjon (Alfred A. Knopf), Mary Flinn (New Virginia Review and Blackbird), Ted Genoways (Virginia Quarterly Review), Gail Hochman (Brandt & Hochman Literary Agency), Roger Hodge (Harper’s), T. R. Hummer (Georgia Review), John Kulka (Best New American Voices), David Lynn (Kenyon Review), Meghan O'Rourke (Slate), Kathy Pories (Algonquin), and Willard Spiegelman (Southwest Review). New Dramatists’ Todd London, artistic director, and Emily Morse, director of playwright programs, will visit to meet with playwrights. Poets Richard Kenney and Rosana Warren will give readings, as will fiction writers Barry Hannah and Julia Glass.