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The 49th annual Southampton Writers Conference was held from July 10 to July 14 at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, New York, located on the Atlantic coast 90 miles east of New York City. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings and an agent panel. The faculty included poets Billy Collins and Diana Khoi Nguyen, fiction writer Julia Phillips, fiction and nonfiction writers Matthew Klam and Frederic Tuten, and memoirist Nadia Owusu.
Southampton Writers Conference, Stony Brook Southampton, Chancellors Hall, 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton, NY 11968. (631) 632-5007. Christian McLean, Conference Director.
The 34th annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference was held from July 16 to July 28 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference featured workshops, special topics classes, lectures, one-on-one meetings with faculty, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poets Marianne Chan, Eduardo C.
Sewanee Writers’ Conference, University of the South, 735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383.
The Ou Gallery’s Ou-telier program offers one- to four-week residencies starting on the 1st and 16th of every month year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada. Residents are provided with a private studio and one-bedroom, one-bathroom cabin, which can be shared with an artist collaborator or family member.
Ou-telier Residency, The Ou Gallery, 3091 Agira Road, Duncan, BC V9L 3Y3, Canada. Barclay Rose, Cofounder.
In this video for the Disability Poetics series, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson speaks about the intersection between disability and enslavement, and reads his poem “Eating the Other,” which appears in his second poetry collection, Watchnight (Nightboat Books, 2024). Watchnight is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib and Glitter Road by January Gill O’Neil.
Two prizes of $2,000 each and publication in Nimrod International Journal are given annually for a poem or a group of poems and a work of fiction.
