26^th Annual Rutgers-Camden
Summer Writers' Conference
June 18 through June 27, 2012

An intensive program of workshops and readings, featuring a staff of nationally-known writers, poets and editors. The series of workshops, lectures and lunch meetings is open to both Rutgers students and the community, though some prior workshop or professional experience is required. It may be taken for either undergraduate or graduate credit as well as on a non-credit certificate basis. See the course listings for Undergraduate and Graduate course numbers.

PLEASE SELECT FROM BELOW:
AFTERNOON READINGS
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
STAFF BIOS
ADMISSION AND WORK REQUIREMENTS

AFTERNOON READINGS
The 2012 Summer Writers' Conference features afternoon readings by the staff members and students. These affairs with refreshments begin at 1pm and are free and open to the general public. All readings will be in the Stedman Gallery in the Fine Arts Center.

SUMMER 2012 READING SCHEDULE

• Tuesday, June 19: Angelo Nikolopoulos and Alexi Zentner
• Wednesday, June 20: Tracy K. Smith
• Thursday, June 21: Moira Crone and Timothy Donnelly
• Friday, June 22: Katharine Weber and James Marcus
• Monday, June 25: Dana Spiotta and Lauren Grodstein
• Tuesday, June 26: Elissa Schappell and J.T. Barbarese
• Wednesday, June 27: Students from the Program

SCHEDULE
Please note that the sessions are subject to change. All afternoon readings are free and open to the public. Workshops are open only to conference registrants (individuals may not register for single workshops).

SCHEDULE FOR 2012
Monday, June 18
11:00-12:00: Orientation session
12:00-1:00: Lunch
2:00-4:00: Panel Discussion- "The Multi-Genre Kit: Teasing Out the Right Tool for the Job" with Lisicky, Zeidner, and Grodstein.

Tuesday, June 19
10:00-12:00: Fiction Workshop: Alexi Zentner
1:00-2:00: READING - Angelo Nikolopoulos and Alexi Zentner
2:00-4:00: Poetry Workshop: Angelo Nikolopoulos

Wedesday, June 20
10:00-12:00: Fiction Craft Class: Paul Lisicky
1:00-2:00: READING - Tracy K. Smith
2:00-4:00: Poetry Workshop: Tracy K. Smith

Thursday, June 21
10:00-12:00: Fiction Workshop: Moira Crone
1:00-2:00: READING - Moira Crone and Timothy Donnelly
2:00-4:00: Poetry Workshop: Timothy Donnelly

Friday, June 22
10:00-12:00: Creative Nonfiction Workshop: James Marcus
1:00-2:00: READING - Katharine Weber and James Marcus
2:00-4:00: Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Katharine Weber

Monday, June 25
10:00-12:00: Fiction Workshop: Dana Spiotta
1:00-2:00: READING - Dana Spiotta and Lauren Grodstein
2:00-4:00: Creative Nonfiction Craft Class: Lauren Grodstein (topic TBA)

Tuesday, June 26
10:00-12:00: StoryQuarterly information session: J.T. Barbarese
1:00-2:00: READING - Elissa Schappell and J.T. Barbarese
2:00-4:00: Fiction Workshop: Elissa Schappell

Wednesday, June 27
11:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:00: READING - Students from the Program
2:00-4:00: Editor's Session: Dan Piepenbring

STAFF FOR 2012

	MOIRA CRONE lives is the author of three collections of stories and the novel A Period of Confinement. Her most recent work is the novel The Not Yet, set in the future. Her works have appeared in Oxford American, The New Yorker, Image, Mademoiselle, Story Quarterly, Triquarterly, and over forty other journals and fifteen anthologies. She has received prizes for her stories and novellas, and in 2009 she won the Robert Penn Warren Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers for the body of her work. She lives in New Orleans.
	Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His poems have been widely anthologized and translated and they have appeared in such periodicals as A Public Space, Fence, Harper’s, The Iowa Review, jubilat, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He has served as poetry editor of Boston Review since 1996. He is currently the Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing and Lewis Center for the Arts and is on the permanent faculty of the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. .
	JAMES MARCUS is Deputy Editor of Harper's Magazine and the author  of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut.  He has translated seven books from the Italian, the most recent  being Giacomo Casanova's The Duel, and his work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Story Quarterly, Raritan, The Nation, and Best American Essays 2009.
	ANGELO NIKOLOPOULOS is the recipient of the 2011 Discovery's Boston Review Poetry Prize and a graduate of NYU's Creative Writing Program.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2011, Boston Review, The Awl, Boxcar Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. He was one of the winners of the 2011 "Discovery" Boston Review Poetry Contest winners He teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and hosts The White Swallow, a queer reading series in Manhattan’s West Village.
	DAN PIEPENBRING is an assistant editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His writing has appeared in The American Scholar, The Paris Review Daily, The Lifted Brow, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.
	ELISSA SCHAPPELL is the author of two books of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, which was chosen as one of the “Best Books of the 2011” by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Newsweek and O Magazine, and Use Me, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award and a New York Times “Notable Book” and co-editor of two anthologies, The Friend Who Got Away and Money Changes Everything. Currently, she is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, a Founding-editor, now Editor-at-Large of Tin House magazine, and former Senior Editor of The Paris Review. She teaches at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.
	TRACY K. SMITH, is the author of three collections of poetry. Life on Mars is her newest collection. Her other collections of poetry are The Body’s Question and Duende. From 1997–1999 she was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. She has received prizes including a Whiting Award, the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She is the Literature protégé in 2009-2011 cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She has taught at the City University of New York, University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.
	DANA SPIOTTA is the author of Lightning Field and Eat the Document, which was a National Book Award Finalist. Stone Arabia, her newest novel, is a National Book Critics Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of 2011. It was named a best book of 2011 by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly and Salon. She teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.
	KATHARINE WEBER is the author of The Memory of All That, True Confections, Triangle, The Music Lesson, Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear, and The Little Women. Her work has been translated into twelve languages and her books have been named Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. She has recently published her sixth book, a memoir, The Memory Of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities. Weber has taught fiction writing at Connecticut College, Yale University, and the Paris Writers Workshop. She was the Kratz Writer in Residence at Goucher College in Spring 2006. She is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor in the graduate writing program in the School of the Arts at Columbia University.
	ALEXI ZENTNER is the author of Touch and the forthcoming The Lobster Kings. He has been shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award, The 2011 Center for Fiction's Flahery-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and the 2011 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Zentner’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Walrus, and many other publications. He is the winner of both the O. Henry Prize (jury favorite) and the Narrative Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Best American Short Stories. Alexi has taught at Cornell University and at the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan University writing conferences.
	LISA ZEIDNER, Conference Director, is the author of four novels, most recently Layover, and two books of poems. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Salon, Slate and many other publications. She is also a screenwriter, currently working on an adaptation for Focus Features. She teaches at Rutgers-Camden.

ADMISSION & WORK REQUIREMENTS
The Conference is for intermediate and advanced writing students. Writers should have taken at least one creative writing workshop or have some publications or writing experience. Address questions about admission to Lisa Zeidner, Conference Director, at (856) 225-6490 or email: zeidner@camden.rutgers.edu. Students interested in the Conference are encouraged to apply early, since space is limited.

Participants will have two pieces of writing reviewed by the staff: one by a visiting writer during the conference, and one by mail afterwards. The length limits for these submissions are:

Fiction and Personal Essay - A minimum of 7 and a maximum of 17 pages double spaced.
Poetry - A minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 pages single spaced. Please keep margins to approximately one inch, and font size to the 10-12 pt. range.

Participants should submit the work to the SAKAI system that they wish to be discussed during the conference. The deadline for registration and posting the work is MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012.

All manuscripts should be typed; fiction and essays should be double-spaced. Work must be submitted electronically, in MS Word, PDF or Text File format to the Rutgers Sakai website by no later than June 4, 2012. Login ID is either your RU ID (if you have one) or your email address. You will receive an invitation to the Sakai site when your registration has been completed. Instructions on uploading papers to the site are available on the site itself.

Please note that Conference participants may only submit work in one genre (poetry, fiction or the personal essay), although they will be encouraged to attend all workshop sessions.

Those taking the Conference for credit will be required to attend all workshops each day and all evening readings. For course credit, students also submit final work (same length restrictions as above), to be responded to by staff members. Due date for the final work will be Monday, July 30, 2012.

Please note that it is not possible to register for individual workshop sessions.

HOUSING
Dorm accommodations have limited availability in the summer. For more information regarding on-campus housing see the Rutgers-Camden Student Housing website. If you are interested in a hotel room, either in South Jersey or in downtown Philadelphia, please email the Conference Director for recommendations in the local region. Rutgers-Camden is accessible via a variety of public transportation systems, including NJ Transit buses, the Riverline Light Rail, and the PATCO Hi-Speed Line.

Rutgers-Camden strives to assure access to programs for all people with disabilities. Use the Rutgers-Camden TTY line for information on programs: (856)225-6648. Please notify us at least two weeks in advance of any special needs.

CREDITS
The Conference is open to the community as well as to Rutgers students. Applicants may register in the following ways for the Summer Conference:

Undergraduate Credit
50:989:401:D1:80398
50:989:402:D1:80308 - for students who have already taken a Summer Conference for undergraduate credit

Graduate Credit
56:200:525:D1:81748
56:200:526:D1:81749 - for students who have already taken a Summer Conference for graduate credit

No Credit (Certificate of Achievement awarded)

TUITION AND FEES
Fees below are for three-credit courses and include the Summer Student Fee.

Undergraduate credit - NJ resident - $1,123.00
Undergraduate credit- non-NJ resident - $2,290.00

Graduate credit - NJ resident - $1,981.00
Graduate credit - non-NJ resident - $2,977.00

Non-credit (Certificate of Achievement) - $750.00

Tuition and Certification Program checks payable to Rutgers University.

In addition to the tuition and fees listed above, students pay a separate Conference Fee of $65.00. This covers students for the lunches and coffee sessions. Make separate $65.00 check payable to Rutgers University Arts and Culture Fund.

APPLICATION FORM
If you are interested in applying for the Writers' Conference 2012, you may print out the Registration Form provided and mail it to the address below or FAX it to (856)225-6453. To print out the hard copy form, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is freely available from the Adobe Website.

Mail To:
Summer Writers' Conference
Rutgers Summer Session
311 North Fifth St.
Camden, NJ 08102

call us at (856)225-6098
or FAX at (856)225-6453

We look forward to hearing from you!

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