<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Perhaps of interest--<br><br>Sent from my iPad, hence the typos</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Slice Magazine <<a href="mailto:editors@slicemagazine.org">editors@slicemagazine.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> June 4, 2012 6:33:10 AM PDT<br><b>To:</b> Slice Magazine <<a href="mailto:editors@slicemagazine.org">editors@slicemagazine.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Slice Writers’ Conference Scholarships Now Available to MFA Students Nationwide</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">Dear MFA coordinators,<div><br></div><div>We’re thrilled to announce that Slice is opening its scholarship program for the 2012 Slice Literary Writers’ Conference to MFA students nationwide thanks to generous grants from <a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a>, Penguin Group (USA), the Hachette Book Group, and ICM.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The conference will be on July 20 and 21 at St. Francis College in downtown Brooklyn. The application deadline is July 1, but space is extremely limited and we will be accepting applications on a rolling basis. We encourage students to apply early if they would like to attend. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Students just need to <a href="http://www.slicemagazine.org/conferences.html">fill out the questionnaire here</a> and note their MFA program in question 3. Scholarship recipients will have the $250 conference fee waived. Please note that the scholarship is to attend panels only (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry workshops are also available for $50 per student).</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Applicants must be actively enrolled in an MFA program on July 20 and 21 in order to be eligible for the scholarship. Recent graduates do not qualify for funding but are welcome to apply for standard conference enrollment at our $250 student rate (a $50 discount).</b></div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div>Additional conference details can be found below and on our website, but feel free to be in touch with any questions. Please help spread the word to your students, and good luck!</div><div><br></div>
<div>All best,<br><br><font face="garamond, serif"><b>Maria Gagliano & Celia Johnson<br></b></font><div><font face="garamond, serif" color="#cc6600"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Publishers and Founders</b></font><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Slice Literary
Writers’ Conference: From the Writer’s Desk to the Bookstore Shelf</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Slice is hosting its second annual
writers’ conference at St. Francis
College in downtown Brooklyn.
The conference is designed to walk emerging writers through the professional
publishing process, “from the writer’s desk to the bookstore shelf.” Editors,
agents, and authors will discuss the crucial steps that help launch a writer’s
career. But a book deal is just the beginning of a writer’s professional
journey. Leading professionals will offer trade secrets about how they
transform a great story into a bestselling book. Each panel will unveil a
different stage of the publishing process, from crafting a pitch, finding an
agent, and negotiating a deal, to the lesser-known elements of book publishing,
such as sales and marketing, advertising and promoting, design, and
subrights. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222">This year’s confirmed participants hail
from every top publishing house in the industry, as well as literary
agencies ranging from ICM and WME Entertainment to boutique firms. Renowned
authors Lev Grossman, Jami Attenberg, and Kurt Andersen will also be joining
us, making it a true gathering of the book community’s greatest minds. </span><a href="http://www.slicemagazine.org/2012conferenceparticipants.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Visit our website</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222"> for a complete
list of this year’s participants. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Full conference details can be found on
our website at </span><a href="http://www.slicemagazine.org/conferences" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc">www.slicemagazine.org/conferences</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">About Slice</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Slice Literary, Inc. is s Brooklyn-based 501(c)
(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping promising new writers have
their voices heard. Book editors Maria Gagliano and Celia Johnson
launched Slice in 2007 with a semi-annual literary magazine that has
since garnered rave reviews from some of today’s leading authors, editors, and
agents. Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Diaz praises, “Beautiful,
compelling, irresistible: <em>Slice</em> will
knock you right out. In the best way possible.” At the core, we aim to
bridge the gap between emerging and established authors by offering a space
where both are published side-by-side. We’ve had tremendous success with
the magazine, with a growing circulation, from the local literary community to
readers worldwide. We have published interviews with bestselling and
prize-winning authors from Brooklyn’s own
Paul Auster, Jonathan Lethem, and Joshua Ferris, to Salman Rushdie, Ray
Bradbury, Elizabeth Strout, and Kathryn Stockett, among many others. <em>Slice</em> has gained a devoted following
of bookworms throughout the city. Our events have been covered everywhere
from <em>The New Yorker</em> and <i>TimeOut<em> New York</em></i> to <em>Poets & Writers</em> and <em>Brooklyn Based</em>. As <em>Slice</em> continues to thrive, we’ve
taken its mission off the page with readings, literary parties, workshops, and
beginning in 2011, an annual writers' conference.</span></p><br>
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