Gell Summer Intensives: Poetry Workshop in Naples

Gell Summer Intensive:
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.

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

Poetry Workshop Schedule: (craft talks and workshops vary for each genre)

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.

Poetry Faculty (July 8)

Ralph Black has published a collection of poetry: Turning Over the Earth, from Milkweed Editions, and a chapbook, The Apple Psalms. He is the recipient of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review and the Chelsea Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Georgia and Gettysburg Reviews, Orion, and West Branch. He teaches English and creative writing at SUNY, College at Brockport.

Sarah Freligh is the author of Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize and the 2015 Whirling Prize from the University of Indianapolis. Other books include A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, winner of the Editor’s Choice award from Accents Publishing, and Sort of Gone, a book of poems that follows the rise and fall of a fictional pitcher named Al Stepansky. Among her awards are a 2009 poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation in 2006.

Lytton Smith is the author of two poetry collections from Nightboat Books, a chapbook from the Poetry Society of America, and the translator of six novels and memoirs from the Icelandic. He is Assistant Professor of English at State University of New York in Geneseo.

Workshops:

• Saturday, July, 22: Nonfiction
• Saturday, July, 29: Fiction