NYS Summer Writers Institute announces July special events

The traditional slate of free readings and discussions by participating and guest writers will again be a highlight of the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College.

Scheduled July 2-27 on the Saratoga Springs campus, the institute features creative writing courses in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. An extraordinary faculty of distinguished writers, among them winners of such major honors as the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Booker Prize, teach and participate in the series of readings and special events sponsored by the institute.

The following is the 2007 schedule of New York State Summer Writers Institute special events. All begin at 8 p.m. in Davis Auditorium of Palamountain Hall (except where noted). Admission to all events is free.

July 2—Poetry and fiction: Richard Howard, poet, and Kathryn Harrison, novelist-memoirist

July 3—Fiction and non-fiction: Elizabeth Benedict, novelist, and Katha Pollitt, columnist, The Nation

Frank Bidart, reads July 4 	 
 	 

July 4—Fiction and poetry: Mary Gordon, novelist, and Frank Bidart, poet

July 5—Fiction: Linda Spalding and Caryl Phillips, novelists

July 6—Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall

July 9—Fiction and non-fiction: Nicholas Delbanco, novelist, and James Miller

July 10—Poetry and fiction: Charles Simic, poet, and Alix Ohlin, novelist

July 11—Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates, Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall

July 12—Fiction and poetry: Francine Prose, novelist, and Campbell McGrath, poet

July 13—Poetry and fiction: Carolyn Forché, poet, and Marilynne Robinson, novelist

July 16—Fiction and non-fiction: Nancy Huston and Phillip Lopate

July 17—Fiction and non-fiction: Victoria Redel, novelist, and Honor Moore

July 18—Fiction: Lee K. Abbott and Binnie Kirshenbaum

July 19—Poetry and fiction: Lucie Brock-Broido, poet, and Amy Hempel, fiction

July 20—Fiction: Julia Slavin and Rick Moody

Jamaica Kincaid, reads July 26 	 
 	 

July 23—Fiction and poetry: Ann Beattie, novelist, and Carl Dennis, poet

July 24—Fiction and poetry: Russell Banks, novelist, and Chase Twichell, poet

July 25—Fiction: Robert Stone and Allan Gurganus

July 26—Fiction and poetry: Jamaica Kincaid, novelist, and Henri Cole, poet

July 27—Panel discussion: “Thinking About Creative Non-Fiction,” with Phillip Lopate and writers institute faculty.