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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear friends in literature,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Greetings! This is the Summer Literary Seminars mid-session program
update. Contents include:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>1. SLS-Russia 2007 June 17th-July 13th </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2. SLS-Kenya 2007 Contest in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry Is Now Open</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>3. SLS-Kenya 2007 Program Updates</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>________________________________________________________________________</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>1.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>SLS-RUSSIA 2007</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The SLS-St. Petersburg 2007 program will be underway in less than a
month, and it is shaping up to be one of our most interesting programs to date.
In addition to our month-long offerings of workshops, lectures, readings, and
literary excursions, we are especially excited to incorporate into our main program
two Russian-language creative writing classes; these will be taught by the
internationally renowned </span><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"></font>Moscow</st1:place></st1:city>
poet and novelist, twice Russian Booker Prize winner Sergey Gandlevsky and
popular prose writer and literary critic Leonid Kostyukov. Creative writing
workshops are still an exceedingly rare phenomenon in <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
and it is SLS's hope that this program will stimulate literary interest in
talented young Russian writers, as well as facilitate a greater degree of
artistic exchange between poets and writers living on different continents.
Along similar lines, SLS is also holding the First Annual Russian Language
Creative Writing Contest for Russians, open to any poet or prose writer
composing in Russian, regardless of his/her geographic coordinates. The results
will be announced by June 1, and the winner in each category will have his or
her work published in the leading Russian literary magazine Znamya, and (in
translation) in the prestigious US literary journal Agni Review; additionally,
he/she will win an all-expense-paid trip to our 2007 SLS-Kenya program. We're
very glad to see our vision for the scope of our programs beginning to come to
fruition at this time, and we look forward to fostering, through the continued
global promotion of mutually enriching literary ideas, an even greater variety
of strong new literary voices worldwide. </p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>As ever—and even more avidly than ever, this year—we eagerly anticipate
getting back to Russia and meeting our old friends and making new ones, talking
literature in the paradigmatically literary, literature-begotten city of St.
Petersburg; to waking and working amidst the sheer ethereality of Petersburg's
White Nights, the echoing midnight silences of granite-clad, Neva-bound vistas
of that ineffably majestic city. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The 2007 <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
program still has a few spots left for last-minute participants, but act
quickly! </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>SLS-KENYA CONTEST IS NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS!</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We are very pleased to announce that our 2nd Annual SLS-Kenya Contests
in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry, held in affiliation with the St. Petersburg
Review (USA) and Maisonneuve ( <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>)
magazines, is now OPEN! Winners will receive an all-expense-paid trip to the
2007 SLS-Kenya program (airfare, housing and tuition) AND publication of their
winning entries in the St. Petersburg Review (fiction and poetry) and
Maisonneuve (nonfiction) magazines. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Guest judges:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Poetry: Robert Hass </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Fiction: Fiona McCrae (Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, Graywolf Press)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Nonfiction: Josip Novakovich</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Please visit our website for complete contest guidelines: <a
href="http://www.sumlitsem.org/kenya/contests.aspx" target="_blank"><font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'>http://www.sumlitsem.org/kenya/contests.aspx</span></font></a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2007</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>3.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>SLS-KENYA 2007 PROGRAM UPDATES </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>With preparations for this summer's Russia program nearly complete, we
have begun transferring our efforts towards our unique, one-of-a-kind Kenya
program, and we're happy to inform friends of SLS that 2007 will
be our largest and most successful program ever. It will be held this
December 14th-28th, and we are again offering SLS-Kenya in cooperation with our
longtime friends and partners at the Nairobi-based Kwani Magazine and Trust—the
most prominent, dynamic and exciting literary organization in <st1:place u1:st="on">East
Africa</st1:place>. The program will feature an international faculty made up
of some of the leading North American and African writers, and an equally
eclectic and diverse cast of North American and local participants. It will be
an unforgettable two weeks. </span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>SLS-Kenya will include intensive genre workshops, a great variety of
readings and lectures, formal and informal discussions—all with an emphasis on
facilitating personal connections between writers living in different
countries, on different continents, worlds apart, in separate hemispheres. The
hallmark of the SLS-Kenya program is that special closeness of creative spirit
and literary interests which enables writers reared in starkly dissimilar
cultures instantly to develop strong artistic bonds and, often, commence to
work successfully on joint literary projects. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>And, as we've learned from many years of visiting that glorious land,
there's no use attempting to describe the unfathomable beauty and cultural
riches of East Africa -- the bright, powerful undercurrents of an energy-mad
megapolis of Nairobi, the boundless solitary plains of the Great Rift
Valley, the shimmering Indian Ocean coast, or the dizzying timelessness of our
second destination of Lamu Island's Old Town. <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">Kenya</st1:place></st1:country-region> is
one of those rare places in the world that one must experience with one's own
eyes. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>SLS-Kenya 2007 faculty and guests include:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Doreen Baingana</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>George Elliot Clarke</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Muthoni Garland</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Stanley</st1:place></st1:city> Gazemba</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Robert Hass</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Brenda Hillman</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Parsalelo Kantai</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Josip Novakovich</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Linda Spalding</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Binyavanga Wainaina</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Colson Whitehead</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Special Guests from <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">Russia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>and many more TBA</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>All the information about the SLS-Kenya program, along with the online
application form (we are currently accepting applications), can be found on the
program website: <a href="http://www.sumlitsem.org/kenya" target="_blank"
title="http://www.sumlitsem.org/kenya"><font color=purple><span
style='color:purple'>www.sumlitsem.org/kenya </span></font></a>. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>4. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We wish you all relaxing and productive summers, and we look forward to
hearing from you—and seeing some of you in the months and years to come, be it
in Russia in a few weeks, in Kenya next December, or North America. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> All Very Best,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Warmly,</span></font></p>
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