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Southampton
Summer Writers Conference
Every summer the English and Writing department sponsors the
Southampton Writers Conference, an intensive program of one-credit
courses in contemporary writing that includes lectures, readings,
workshops, and panels featuring nationally distinguished authors
who join the department's summer faculty. Past conference faculty have included Frank McCourt, Billy Collins, Melissa Bank, Christopher Durang, Bharati Mukherjee, Marie Howe, Carol Muske-Dukes, and Joe Pintauro. Past conference participants have included Margaret Atwood, E. L. Doctorow, Dava Sobel, John Guare, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Garry Trudeau, and Walter Mosley. Conference onstage events have attracted actors such as Kathleen Turner, Diane Wiest, Roy Scheider, Alan Alda, Mel Brooks, and Jane Pauley.
The Writers Conference welcomes all visiting students. Participants
do not need to have any other connection to Southampton Graduate Campus.
Conference activities are integrated into the program's summer
semesters so that students enrolled for summer courses will automatically
participate in its activities. Matriculated MFA in Writing students
receive a substantial discount on the cost of participating in
the Writers Conference.
Learn more about the Southampton
Summer Writers Conference
The
John Steinbeck Book Fair
The annual John Steinbeck "Meet the Writers" Book Fair began
in 1977 as a benefit for the College Library and Writing Program.
Growing in popularity with each year, the Book Fair has become
known as the official kick-off of the summer season in the Hamptons.
It is a much-anticipated event that brings together prominent
writers, artists and patrons of the arts in the Hamptons. The
event is held each year at the campus where
writers of new books meet the public and autograph their books
and young artists display their work. Each year the John Steinbeck
Award is presented to an East End writer to honor his or her contributions
to literature and humanity. Among past honorees are E.L. Doctorow,
Kurt Vonnegut, Betty Friedan, Edward Albee, Susan Isaacs, and
Dava Sobel.
The
John Steinbeck Writing Awards
Entries for the College's John Steinbeck Writing Awards are now
being accepted. The contest is open to all Southampton students,
and the judges will consider submissions in the following areas:
fiction, poetry, drama, essays, screenplays, and all forms of
non-fiction.
The winners, who will be announced at the Student Award Ceremony
next spring, will receive cash prizes.
Submissions should be marked "Steinbeck Contest." They should
be neatly double-spaced on regular-sized white paper. A cover
sheet for each submission should identify the writer, whose name
should not appear on the work itself. The cover sheet should also
indicate whether the author is an undergraduate or a graduate
student. Submissions must be brought to the Humanities Office,
Fine Arts 9, any time before the deadline, which is Friday, April
7th.
Proteus Literary Journal
The college's literary magazine, Proteus, welcomes
poetry, prose, short stories, and other short creative or non-fiction
work from writers locally and nationally.
Submissions should be accompanied by a cover page with the author's
name, address or student box number, extension or phone number,
and the title of the work being submitted. The author's name should
not appear on the work itself, only on the cover page. All pages
should be numbered, and submissions should be accompanied by a
self-addressed, stamped envelope; otherwise, manuscripts will
not be returned. Submissions should include a copy on disk plus
a hard copy; the disk copy should be formatted in Windows and
should include the file name for access.
Hampton Shorts
The local literary journal, Hampton Shorts, encourages submissions
from Southampton Students and faculty. As its name implies, stories,
poems, and non-fiction should be on the brief side. Send manuscripts
and a self-addressed stamped return envelope to:
- Barbara Stone, Editor
- Hampton Shorts
- Box 1229
- Water Mill, NY 11976
Hampton Shorts has published contributions by many younger authors
as well as those by Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Bruce Jay Friedman,
Kaylie Jones, and Roger Rosenblatt.
Writers Speak Lecture Series
Each semester The MFA in Writing Program sponsors Writers Speak,
a lecture series open to all students and the public. Writers Speak features talks and public readings in Ocean View Lounge
by noted authors, journalists, poets and editors. Students have
the opportunity to meet distinguished writers in a small, informal
setting and hear them present insights into the craft of writing.
Recent talks have been given by novelists Maggie Scarf, Bharati Mukherjee and Melissa Bank, and biographer Stefan Kanfer. For information on the most recent "Writers Talk"
series, click here or check the News
web page under new
releases.
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