Deadline: 25 May 2011
Type: Conference
Location: Plattsburgh, New York
Event Date: July 11, 2011
Application Deadline: May 25, 2011
Financial Aid Deadline: May 25, 2011
Web site: www.centerforblackliterature.org
The 2011 North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color will be held from July 11 to July 15, 2011 at the Valcour Educational Conference Center overlooking Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh, New York. Cosponsored by the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, and the Department of English at SUNY, Plattsburgh, the conference features workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as readings and one-on-one conferences with faculty members. The cost of the conference is $600, which includes lodging and meals. Scholarships are available. Teachers can earn professional development credits. Submit up to 20 pages of prose or a chapter of a novel or memoir, a project description, and contact information for two references by May 25, 2011. There is no application fee. Call or visit the Web site for more information.
2011 Winter NCI Workshop Leaders: Bernice L. McFadden and Willie Perdomo
Fiction: Bernice L. McFadden is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including the classic Sugar and Nowhere Is a Place, which was a Washington Post best fiction title for 2006. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of two fiction honors from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA). McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is working on her next novel.
Poetry: Willie Perdomo is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime and Smoking Lovely, which received a PEN American Beyond Margins Award. He has also been published in the New York Times Magazine, Bomb, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, OCHO, and African Voices. His children’s book Visiting Langston received a Coretta Scott King Honor and his follow-up, Clemente! was recently published. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Woolrich Fellow in creative writing at Columbia University and is a 2009 fellow in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is cofounder/publisher of Cypher Books. Visit his Web site at www.willieperdomo.com.
North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color, Center for Black Literature, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225. (718) 804-8883.