Gell Summer Intensives: Fiction in Naples

Schedule:
9:00-10:00: Registration + Meet & Greet + generative exercise
10:00-11:00: Craft talk
11:00-1:00: Workshop 1 (split into groups of 3)
1:00-2:00: Lunch
2:00-4:00: Workshop 2 (split into groups of 3)
4:00-5:00: Publishing Panel of Instructors (moderated by Writers & Books Executive Director Kyle Semmel)
5:00-6:00: Dinner
6:00-7:00: Reception + Reading

For questions about the Gell Summer Intensive, email Kyle Semmel at kyles@wab.org.

Fiction Faculty (July 29)

Kristen Gentry is from Louisville, Kentucky and received her MFA from Indiana University. She currently lives in Rochester, NY near SUNY Geneseo where she is an associate professor of English and the director of creative writing. Her short stories have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Jabberwock Review, and other journals. She is at work completing Mama Said, a collection of linked stories that explore mother-daughter relationships strained by the mothers’ drug addictions.

Rachel Hall is the author of Heirlooms (BkMk Press), which was selected by Marge Piercy for the G.S. Sharat Chandra Book Prize. She teaches at the State University of New York in Geneseo, where she holds two Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence— one in teaching and one for her creative work.

Anne Panning’s novel, Butter, was published in 2012 by Switchgrass Books. She has published two short story collections: The Price of Eggs and Super America, which won The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. She has also published short fiction and non-fiction in numerous literary journals including Beloit Fiction Journal, Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, New Letters, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, and many others. Her forthcoming memoir, Dragonfly Notes, will be published in 2018 by Stillhouse Press. She teaches creative writing at State University of New York in Brockport.

Stephen Schottenfeld has published a novel, Bluff City Pawn, with Bloomsbury USA. He has completed a story collection, Miss Ellen Jameson Is Not Deceased, and he is currently at work on his next novel. His stories have been published in numerous literary magazines and have garnered a Michener/Copernicus Society of America grant, a Halls Fiction Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and special mentions in both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories anthologies. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Rochester.