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We are excited to announce our third Biennial Alumni Program, scheduled for November 5-8, 2009!
In keeping with our program's dedication to the success of our students beyond graduation, we have established Alumni Program to help our alumni become better acquainted with the literary industry and with opportunities in it.
This program is open to Queens MFA alumni only. For more information, or to register, please contact Melissa Bashor, MFA Program Coordinator, at bashorm@queens.edu or 704.377.2499.
Workshops and Individual Conferences
The program will feature workshops run by top literary editors and agents, with each workshop limited to no more than five participants. All program participants will also meet in individual conferences with their respective instructors. Fiction and nonfiction writers will be grouped together in mixed genre workshops; poets will meet separately in workshops devoted exclusively to poetry. See the Faculty List below for bios of our esteemed guest instructors.
Faculty assignments are made on a first-come, first-serve basis, so register soon to ensure your first choice for instructors.
Seminars and Panels
The program will include craft seminars, as well as multiple panels on publishing. More details to come!
Alumni Readings, Open Mic, and Dinner Out
Come hear your fellow alumni read from their published works at public readings, and share your works-in-progress at an Open Mic event. We’ll also feature an all-program dinner out at a local restaurant for participants and instructors.
Tuition and Deadlines
Tuition is $600. A $300 deposit is required for registration and is refundable until August 14. Tuition is due in full by October 1. Registration forms are attached to this message.
Prose Faculty
Helen Atsma is a Senior Editor at Henry Holt and Company, where she primarily acquires literary fiction and upmarket women's fiction, voice-driven narrative nonfiction, and biography. Her authors include Catherine O'Flynn (WHAT WAS LOST, winner of the Costa First Novel Award), Mignon Fogarty (GRAMMAR GIRL'S QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS FOR BETTER WRITING, a New York Times bestseller), Helen Garner (THE SPARE ROOM), and Hyatt Bass (THE EMBERS). Previously, she was at Little, Brown.
Anne Edelstein began her agency, Anne Edelstein Literary Agency, nearly 20 years ago. She is an independent agent with interests in literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, especially in areas of narrative history, religion, psychology and memoir. Her range of clients include Russell Shorto, James Shapiro, Stephen Batchelor, Mark Epstein, Rachel Simon, Jody Shields, Tess Callahan, Josip Novakovich, and others.
Liz Farrell has been an agent with International Creative Management (ICM) since 2000, primarily servicing established book clients in the audiobook and magazine markets. She has sold countless op-eds, short stories, book excerpts, original feature articles and essays to national publications both large and small. She occassionally sells books and her most recent project is THE BOOK OF DADS: ESSAYS ON THE JOYS, PERILS, and HUMILIATIONS OF FATHERHOOD (Ecco Press, 2009) edited by Ben George, editor of Ecotone and a former editor at Tin House. She is particularly interested in narrative non-fiction be it memoir, history or investigative reporting.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an editorial associate and theatre reviewer for The New Yorker, where he is also a member of the fiction department.
Megan Lynch is an Editor at Riverhead Books, where she has edited books by authors including Ellis Avery, Jennifer Belle, Cristina Henriquez, Dinaw Mengestu, Wendy McClure, and Dana Vachon. Prior to her arrival at Riverhead, Megan worked in the editorial departments at Little, Brown and Company and Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. She is a graduate of Brown University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Chris Parris-Lamb, an agent with The Gernert Company, was born in Alabama and grew up in North Carolina, where he attended the University of North Carolina as a Morehead Scholar. His fiction clients include Hillary Jordan, author of the New York Times Bestselling MUDBOUND, and György Dragomán, whose novel THE WHITE KING was excerpted in the Paris Review and has been published in 28 languages worldwide, as well as debut novelists like Ian MacKenzie and Joe Pernice (of indie-rock band The Pernice Brothers). His nonfiction clients include journalists, sportswriters, memoirists, critics, historians, scholars, and public figures; recent publications include Grant Wahl's THE BECKHAM EXPERIMENT and UNC Men's Basketball Coach Roy Williams' forthcoming memoir. He lives with his wife, Whitney, in Manhattan.
Nathaniel Rich is a senior editor at The Paris Review. His novel, The Mayor's Tongue, was published last year. He is also the author of a work of nonfiction, San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present, and has written essays and criticism for The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Slate, and The New York Times.
Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House and a consulting editor for Bloomsbury Books. His writing has appeared in BookForum, the Boston Review, Connoisseur, Details, GQ, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Real Simple, Rolling Stone, Salon, Spin, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Worth, among other magazines, newspapers, essay collections, and online journals.
Peter Steinberg, founder of The Steinberg Agency, Inc. Peter represents a broad range of novels and short story collections and the occasional YA title. His non-fiction interests include memoir, humor, biography, history, pop culture, fitness and narrative non-fiction. Prior to establishing his own agency, Peter worked for eleven years as a literary agent at a number of high profile boutique literary agencies, including Donadio & Olson and Regal Literary. His clients have been nominated for/awarded Edgars, Quills, The Pulitzer Prize, The Story Prize, The Paris Review Discovery Prize, Borders Original Voices and National Book Awards. Peter began his career as a filmmaker and screenwriter with a B.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts’ film school.
Tina Dubois Wexler, fiction and nonfiction agent, International Creative Management. With ICM since 2003, Tina Wexler represents writers in both the children's and adult marketplace. On the adult side, she is looking to acquire literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and pop culture. On the children's side, she's interested in edgy young adult fiction, humorous middle grade fiction and the occasional quirky picture book. Particular interests include art history, multicultural/multigenerational stories, what it means to be a woman in today's world, and modernized retellings of popular myths and legends. Her clients include Helen Brenna, Lesley Dahl, Jeannine Garsee, Ruthie Knapp, Jenni Kosarin, Stephanie Levine, Timothy Mason, Sanjay Patel, Laurel Snyder, and Anne Ursu (children's market only). Prior to joining ICM, she was with the Ellen Levine Literary Agency/Trident Media and the Karpfinger Agency. She is from southern Maine and holds an MFA in poetry.
Amy Williams is the co-founder of the McCormick & Williams literary agency, specializing in literary and commercial fiction and quality non-fiction, including memoir, history, narrative, biography, lifestyle, sports, self-help, and pop culture. She began her publishing career as an editorial assistant at Doubleday. A literary agent since 1996, she has worked at The Gernert Company, ICM, and Collins McCormick.
Poetry Faculty
Kate Gale is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review and President of the American Composers Forum, LA. She is author of five books of poetry (her most recent, Mating Season, Tupelo Press), and Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis. Her current projects include a co-written libretto, Paradises Lost with Ursula K. LeGuin with composer Stephen Taylor and a libretto adapted from Kindred by Octavia Butler with composer Billy Childs.
Meghan O'Rourke is the author of Halflife (W.W. Norton), a book of poems. She is a poetry editor of the Paris Review, and a literary critic for Slate Magazine, where she used to run the culture section. She lives in Brooklyn, where she grew up. She is the recipient of the May Sarton Award and the Poetry Foundation's Union League and Civic Arts Foundation Award.
David St. John has been honored, over the course of his career, with many of the most significant prizes for poets, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, both the Rome Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize (a career award for teaching and poetic achievement) from The Folger Shakespeare Library, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His work has been published in countless literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper's, Antaeus, and The New Republic, and has been widely anthologized. He has taught creative writing at Oberlin College and The Johns Hopkins University and currently teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he served as Director of The Ph. D. Program in Literature and Creative Writing. David St. John is the author of nine collections of poetry (including Study for the World’s Body, nominated for The National Book Award in Poetry), most recently The Face: A Novella in Verse, as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us. He is presently completing a new volume of poems entitled, The Auroras. He is also the co-editor, with Cole Swensen, of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. He was the poetry editor of the The Antioch Review for many years.
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