Nov 29, 2011 11:40 AM
Stony Brook University students at the bronze model of the city of Florence, in the Piazza della Repubblica. From left: Vivian Conan, Barbara Bellman, Tula Holmes, Jo-Ann McLean, Sarah Azzara, Alicia LeClair and Vicki Siska. CHRISTIAN McLEAN
Stony Brook Southampton will be taking 12 writing students to Florence, Italy, this winter, where they will work on their fiction in one of the artistic capitals of the world.
“There’s something about being away from your regular environment that can jar something, excite something,” said Meg Wolitzer, a writing professor in Stony Brook Southampton’s Master of Fine Arts program, who will be leading the nine-day workshop in January 2012. “Italy just seems … it feels very evocative to me. So many people, so many adults, respond to Italy.”
The program, which will run from January 12 to 21, is part of the writing program’s expanding effort to send its students abroad. From January 2 to 11, another 12 students will study poetry at the university’s Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya.
“It’s a... more
“There’s something about being away from your regular environment that can jar something, excite something,” said Meg Wolitzer, a writing professor in Stony Brook Southampton’s Master of Fine Arts program, who will be leading the nine-day workshop in January 2012. “Italy just seems … it feels very evocative to me. So many people, so many adults, respond to Italy.”
The program, which will run from January 12 to 21, is part of the writing program’s expanding effort to send its students abroad. From January 2 to 11, another 12 students will study poetry at the university’s Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya.
“It’s a... more
