[CW-Grad] Fwd: Slice Writers’ Conference Scholarships Now Available to MFA Students Nationwide

[robin russin]

Perhaps of interest--

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> From: Slice Magazine <editors at slicemagazine.org>
> Date: June 4, 2012 6:33:10 AM PDT
> To: Slice Magazine <editors at slicemagazine.org>
> Subject: Slice Writers’ Conference Scholarships Now Available to MFA Students Nationwide
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> Dear MFA coordinators,
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> 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 Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA), the Hachette Book Group, and ICM.
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> 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. 
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> Students just need to fill out the questionnaire here 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).
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> 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).
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> 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!
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> All best,
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> Maria Gagliano & Celia Johnson
> Publishers and Founders
> Slice Literary
> www.slicemagazine.org
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> Slice Literary Writers’ Conference: From the Writer’s Desk to the Bookstore Shelf
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> 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. 
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> 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. Visit our website for a complete list of this year’s participants. 
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> Full conference details can be found on our website at www.slicemagazine.org/conferences.
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> About Slice
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> 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: Slice 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. Slice has gained a devoted following of bookworms throughout the city. Our events have been covered everywhere from The New Yorker and TimeOut New York to Poets & Writers and Brooklyn Based. As Slice continues to thrive, we’ve taken its mission off the page with readings, literary parties, workshops, and beginning in 2011, an annual writers' conference.
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