SLS Russia 2007

The SLS Russia 2007 contest in affiliation with The Walrus is now accepting entries; judges are Douglas Coupland in fiction and Fanny Howe in poetry.

-Announcement of the SLS Russia 2007 Faculty List (2007 program now accepting applications)

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SLS Russia’s Second Annual Contest in Affiliation with The Walrus
We are happy to announce that our 2007 contest will again be held in affiliation with The Walrus magazine--Canada's foremost large-circulation literary and general-interest journal (www.walrusmagazine.com). Douglas Coupland (fiction) and Fanny Howe (poetry) have kindly agreed to be the contest judges.
The contest is now accepting entries, and the complete guidelines may be found on the Summer Literary Seminars web site: http://sumlitsem.org/russia/contests.aspx.
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Seminars include: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Playwriting & Screenwriting, Travel Writing, Arts Criticism, Untranslatable Russia, and Translation

2007 Teaching Faculty
KIRSTEN BAKIS
LAURA MARIA CENSABELLA
ARKADII DRAGOMOSCHENKO
MIKHAIL EPSTEIN
JORIE GRAHAM
CHRISTIAN HAWKEY
STEVEN HEIGHTON
FANNY HOWE
MIKHAIL IAMPOLSKI
SAM LIPSYTE
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
ROLF POTTS
DAWN RAFFEL
GARY SHTEYNGART
ALEXANDR SKIDAN
CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO
THOMAS SWICK
ANTHONY SWOFFORD
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA

2007 Lecturers & Guests

JASON CAMLOT
GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE
MARK HALPERIN
JOSHUA KNELMAN (The Walrus) FIONA MCCRAE (Graywolf)
PAUL MULDOON
EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY
PETER SACKS
CATHERINE TICE ( New York Review of Books) ANNE WALDMAN
MATVEI YANKELEVICH
...and many others TBA

Read more about our faculty and the program at http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/theprogram.asp.

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As ever, we wish you the best of luck with your literary undertakings--and hope to see some of you in the city of St. Petersburg next summer.

Kind regards,

The SLS Crew