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THE WRITERS HOTEL 2015 June 10-16, NYC 
MASTER CLASS IN FICTION, NONFICTION & POETRY

Your mini low-residency. Pre and post study.
Workshops, seminars, agents and readings in NYC.

 
You could be one-on-one with our writers at the heart of the city this June! The Writer's Hotel The New Guard literary review are hosting a Master Class in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry in Midtown Manhattan in 2015. Events are held between three writer's hotels, Library Hotel, The Bryant Park Hotel and the Algonquin, Workshops and lectures take place at Library Hotel and The Bryant Park in their loft and penthouse event rooms. Classes are small, and our four-day workshops run for three full hours long. Choose your workshop leader and choose from four different craft lectures each afternoon. Meet agents and make those important literary connections. Take a walking tour at lunch, and read your own original work in the city at night. 

Accepted writers get the added benefit of having TWH Directors Scott Wolven Shanna McNair read their manuscripts twice before the Master Class in June. Meet and work with Pulitzer Prize-winning Stephen Dunn, Emmy Award-winning Zach Zamboni, Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair Richard Hoffman, Elyssa East, Shanna McNair, Scott Wolven, Barbara Hurd and Kathleen Aguero.

It's free to apply. Just send in 20 pages for review. The sooner you're accepted, the sooner we can get to work.
We expect to fill up very quickly. Space is very limited. Early signups receive extra editorial attention. Deadline is March 7, 2015, but we expect to fill up much sooner. Early registration is strongly encouraged.Click the red button below. Let's get started! 
CLICK HERE TO APPLY. SPACE IS LIMITED!
THE WRITER'S HOTEL 2015 WORKSHOP LEADERS
STEPHEN DUNN  (Poetry Workshop) 
Stephen Dunn is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, including the recent collection, Lines of Defense, released this year from W.W.Norton 2011. Dunn has won The Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award in Literature, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, three NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Levinson and Oscar Blumenthal Prizes from Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest and many others. He is Distinguished Professor (emeritus) of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and has also taught at Columbia University, NYU, University of Michigan, Princeton and the University of Washington.
SCOTT WOLVEN  (Fiction Workshop) 
Scott Wolven is a TWH & TNG Editor. He is the author of the short story collection, Controlled Burn. The film, "Hepburn" by Tommy Davis, a work based on Scott's short story, "Hammerlock," was featured last month at The New York Film Festival on the Main Stage. Scott's stories have appeared seven years in a row in The Best American Mystery Stories Series, the most consecutive appearances in the history of the series. The title story of the collection appeared in Best American Noir of the Century. Scott has taught at Binghamton University (SUNY), the University of Southern Maine and at the University of Chicago. 

 
RICHARD HOFFMAN  (Nonfiction Workshop) 

Richard Hoffman is author of the Half the House: a Memoir, and the poetry collections, Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club, and Emblem. A fiction writer as well, his Interference & Other Stories was published in 2009. His new memoir, Love & Fury, is just out from Beacon Press. He is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College.

SHANNA MCNAIR  (Fiction Workshop) 
Shanna McNair is Founder and Director of The Writer’s Hotel and Founding Editor and Publisher of The New Guard.
She is an award-winning journalist with a background in the visual and performing arts. She writes fiction, poetry, scripts and articles and has a novel and a collection of short stories forthcoming. She is presently working on her second novel while earning a second masters at Dartmouth College. 
ELYSSA EAST  (Nonfiction Workshop)  
Elyssa East’s first book, Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, won the PEN New England Award in Nonfiction. Dogtown was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Awards and an Editors’ Choice Selection of the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Her articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Boston Globe, and her short fiction was placed in Cape Cod Noir and in The Best of the Akashic Noir. She is currently at work on a novel.
THE WRITER'S HOTEL 2015 SELECTED GUEST LECTURERS 
ZACH ZAMBONI  (Nonfiction)
Zach Zamboni is a cinematographer. Raised in Maine, Zamboni studied Philosophy, Writing, and Cinematography at The University of Maine at Orono, The University of East Anglia in the UK, and The Maine Workshops.  Before shooting, he learned the art and craft of lighting as an electrician and gaffer in New York’s independent feature and commercial world.
As a Cinematographer, Zamboni’s body of work is award-winning, and global in reach.  More than 10,000 hours of filming abroad have given him a rare perspective on the world’s peoples and landscapes.  Stylistically, he’s known for bringing cinematic vision to non-fiction work, and for bringing the immediacy of the real world into fiction.  His unique eye and experiences are sought cross-genre, his clients include Television, Documentary, Commercial, and Feature Films.
WESLEY MCNAIR  (Poetry)  
Wesley McNair, called by Philip Levine “one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry,” has authored ten collections and has held grants from the Guggenheim and Fulbright foundations, two Rockefeller Fellowships, two fellowships from the NEA, and an Emmy Award. He has twice been invited to read his poetry by the Library of Congress, and was recently selected for a United States Artists Fellowship of $50,000 as one of “America’s finest living artists.” He is the Poet Laureate of Maine.
BARBARA HURD  (Nonfiction)
Barbara Hurd is the author of Putting An Ear to the Ground  (forthcoming), Stepping into the Same River Twice, Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains, and The Singer's Temple, among others. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, Best American Essays, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Orion and Audubon.  The recipient of an NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, she teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College.
KATHLEEN AGUERO (Poetry) 
Kathleen Aguero's latest book is entitled After That. Other books include Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth, Daughter OfThe Real Weather and Thirsty Day.  She has also co-edited three volumes of multi-cultural literature for the University of Georgia Press and is consulting poetry editor of Solstice Literary Magazine.  She is a co-winner of the 2012 Firman Houghton Award from the New England Poetry Club and a recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Elgin-Cox Foundation. She teaches at Pine Manor College and at Changing Lives through Literature, an alternative sentencing program.

MORE DETAILS ON THE PROGRAM:

Our Master Class is centered on craft and the publishing industry. Each writer participates in an intensive workshop with a TWH instructor, attends lectures and seminars on craft, and is a part of our literary agent speed dating event. 

Each student has the unusual opportunity to read their own original work at an NYC venue via our specially curated series, "The Writer's Hotel Reading Series." Our venues include KGB Bar Lit's Red Room, The Half King and KinokuniyaWe also host literary walking tours and a game of  "Wink, Murder" at the Algonquin Hotel.

Deadline is March 7, 2015, but we expect to fill up much sooner. Early application is strongly encouraged.

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