Gell Summer Intensives: : Nonfiction in Naples

Writers & Books is excited to launch the Gell Summer Intensive workshops series. These three workshops will run as one-day camps held at Gell: A Finger Lakes Creative Retreat, our satellite location, set in the Bristol Hills. Each workshop will focus on a different genre, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, and will be taught by a team of local university professors & widely published writers.

Nonfiction Faculty (July 22)

JR Fenn’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in places such as Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, PANK, Cosmopolitan, and The Atlantic, and can be found at www.jrfenn.com. Her writing has received support from the Key West Literary Seminars. She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Geneseo.

Sejal Shah’s stories, essays, and interviews have appeared widely in publications including Brevity, The Huffington Post, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, Rochester Magazine, and AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle. She teaches creative nonfiction and fiction at Writers & Books and the University of Rochester, and works with students privately as a writing mentor.

Stephen J. West’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Baltimore Review, Brevity, PANK, and Fugue, among others, and he was a featured artist by Ninth Letter, who published his artist’s book DIY View-Master: Intimate Space. Prior to moving to Rochester and becoming Writer-in-Residence at St. John Fisher College, Stephen earned an MFA from the University of Iowa and spent ve years teaching at West Virginia University.

Instructor Sejal Shah adds “I took a few summer workshops years after receiving my MFA, when I had already been teaching for several years.  However, the opportunity to be a participant-student again in an immersive, supportive, non-competitive workshop with time, space, and like-minded people absolutely changed my writing life and propelled it forward.”
 
It’s an opportunity for adults interested in writing to go to “summer camp” and meet other like-minded writers!
 
Interested participants must send 8 – 10 pages of their work to Writers & Books (submissions@wab.org, “Gell Summer Intensive” in subject line) by June 19. Students will be notified of acceptance by June 26.
 
For more information on the Gell Summer Intensives, contact Kyle Semmel at kyles@wab.org
 
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