The Southampton Writers Conference on the Stony Brook Southampton campus, beginning July 6, is encouraging locals and summer visitors to join the 10-day literary event by attending a master class with faculty member and lauded writer Roger Rosenblatt.
Using music, film clips and other media of every genre to broaden the discussion, the class examines the art and craft of writing.
Mr. Rosenblatt, a former Time and “NewsHour” essayist who has published several novels as well as memoirs and other works of nonfiction, will welcome a different special guest professional writer to each class session.
“This is a way of looking at writing that’s not being done,” Mr. Rosenblatt said in a statement. “Rather than being helpful to writers as they’re trying to write or are writing, this new format is intended to be helpful to writers when they’re not writing. The hope is it can help them to look at the world as writers.”
Titled “Imagine What You Know: Five Ways of Looking at Writing,” the class is held over five two-and-a-half-hour sessions. The topics are Imagination, with guest Jane Hamilton; Consequence, with poet Martin Espada; Originality, with novelist Meg Wolitzer; Invisibilities, or what you cannot see in writing, with poet Mark Doty; and Inspiration, with Lauren Groff.
East End residents pay $875 for the Master Class, a $100 discount off the standard fee.
The class will be in session at 9:30 a.m. every other day beginning Thursday, July 7.
Master class participants can also access the conference’s salons, readings and panel discussions—participants are excluded only from graduate credit-bearing workshops.
While the deadline to take the class for undergraduate credit is June 15, the deadline for the non-credit option is Monday, June 20.
For more information, or to apply, visit stonybrook.edu/writers or email Christian.McLean@stonybrook.edu. The locals discount code is “locl.”
on Jun 10, 2016