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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear Friends of Summer Literary Seminars,<br>
<br>
-SLS Russia 2007 Faculty Announced<br>
-SLS Russia 2007 Applications Now Being Accepted<br>
-SLS Russia contest in connection with The Walrus magazine accepting entries<br>
-Application deadline for SLS Kenya 2007 looms<br>
<br>
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-Announcing the SLS 2007 </span></font>St. Petersburg, Russia program faculty.
SLS Russia, <br>
now in its ninth year of programming, offers workshops and seminars in<br>
Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Travel Writing, Playwriting & Screenwriting,<br>
Arts Criticism, Translation, Untranslatable Russia, and numerous lectures <br>
led by the finest of contemporary writers from the US, Canada, Europe,<br>
Russia, and Kenya, including:<br>
<br>
<br>
KIRSTEN BAKIS<br>
JASON CAMLOT<br>
KEVIN CANTY<br>
LAURA MARIA CENSABELLA<br>
ARKADII DRAGOMOSCHENKO<br>
GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE <br>
MIKHAIL EPSTEIN<br>
JORIE GRAHAM<br>
MARK HALPERIN<br>
CHRISTIAN HAWKEY<br>
STEVEN HEIGHTON<br>
FANNY HOWE<br>
MIKHAIL IAMPOLSKI<br>
JOSHUA KNELMAN (The Walrus)<br>
VITALY KOMAR<br>
SAM LIPSYTE<br>
FIONA MCCRAE (Graywolf)<br>
PAUL MULDOON <br>
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH<br>
ROBERT OLMSTEAD<br>
EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY<br>
WILLIAM PIERCE (Agni)<br>
ROLF POTTS<br>
DAWN RAFFEL<br>
NOAH RICHLER<br>
CARLIN ROMANO<br>
PETER SACKS<br>
GARY SHTEYNGART<br>
ALEXANDR SKIDAN<br>
CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO <br>
THOMAS SWICK<br>
ANTHONY SWOFFORD<br>
CATHERINE TICE (New York Review of Books)<br>
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA<br>
ANNE WALDMAN<br>
MATVEI YANKELEVICH<br>
<br>
<br>
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<br>
The SLS Russia 2007 program is now accepting applications. For more info on <br>
the program, go to this url:<br>
<br>
<u><a href="http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/program.aspx">http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/program.aspx</a></u><br>
<br>
For a direct link to the application:<br>
<br>
<u><a href="http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/apply.aspx">http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/apply.aspx</a></u><br>
<br>
The most popular seminars tend to fill up quick, so applying early is the<br>
best way to lock in the seminars you want.<br>
<br>
For info on scholarships:<br>
<br>
<u><a href="http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/scholarships.aspx">http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/scholarships.aspx</a></u><br>
<br>
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<br>
The annual SLS Russia Fiction & Poetry contest are accepting entries.<br>
<br>
This year's final judges are Douglas Coupland and Fanny Howe. <br>
<br>
The authors of the winning poem and prose entries will receive airfare,<br>
accommodations, and a full tuition waiver to the 2007 Summer Literary<br>
Seminars program in St. Petersburg, Russia, AND publication of the winning <br>
entry in The Walrus. Second place receives a full tuition waiver to SLS<br>
2007, and third place receives a substantial tuition scholarship. Other<br>
entrants will be offered Select Scholarships as well, at the discretion of <br>
SLS, based on the strength of their work. Other entrants may also be<br>
considered for publication in the St. Petersburg Review launching this<br>
Summer.<br>
<br>
For further info:<br>
<br>
<u><a href="http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/contests.aspx">http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/contests.aspx</a></u><br>
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Last call for SLS-Kenya 2006<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Time is running short to submit an application; the program is all but full --
and it's going to be a unique, groundbreaking event in one of the world's most
fascinating places. Participants will be traveling to <?xml:namespace prefix
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the equatorial island of Lamu, and all points in-between. There are many
exciting additions to this year's offerings, including a landmark meeting of
editors from across the African continent and the rest of the world to discuss
the state of writing and publishing in Africa.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
For a direct link to the application:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.sumlitsem.org/kenya/apply.aspx">http://www.sumlitsem.org/kenya/apply.aspx</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Or should you have questions, please contact:<br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:sls@sumlitsem.org">sls@sumlitsem.org</a> or <a
href="mailto:Kenya@sumlitsem.org">Kenya@sumlitsem.org </a><u><br>
</u><br>
<br>
<br>
All the very best,<br>
<br>
SLS<br>
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<p></x-sigsep><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><x-sigsep>Maurya
Simon<br>
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Professor <br>
Department of Creative Writing<br>
</span></font>University of California Riverside<br>
900 University Avenue<br>
Riverside, CA 92521-0318<br>
<br>
TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)<br>
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FAX: (951) 827-3619 </p>
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