The Writing Workshops

in San Miguel de Allende
June 23 - July 18, 2008

Housing Options

Post-Graduate Forum

The University of New Orleans Low-Residency MFA and Study Abroad Programs is pleased to announce the creation of the Post-Graduate Writing Institute and Conference Abroad option in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. This program will offer alumni and other interested degree holding writers the chance to come to the summer program and work. To participate, you must have earned your degree by January 1, 2008.

For the post-graduate program fee participants will be able to attend all films, readings, lectures, and excursions. They will also gain entrance to several post-graduate forums, focusing on issues such as editing and ordering a manuscript, publishing and disseminating work, and maintaining a sense of community in the post-MFA writing world. Participants may be invited to speak in the classes on a one time basis, but will have no class responsibilities, and no academic credit will be awarded. Housing may be arranged through the program coordinators, or participants may elect to find their own housing. All food, housing, and transportation costs are the participants responsibility.

Also, please note that there is now being offered a three day Finishing Your Manuscript workshop with Gale Renee Walden. This workshop will focus on issues of polish and order, and participants will exchage their book lnegth works prior to the beginning of the program in San Miguel on June 23rd. This will be available to those current students about to graduate, as well as participants in the post-graduate program. This workshop is for those working in fiction and non-fiction. We will also be hosting a one day symposium on publishing, called Getting it Across. You can view the schedule below, or email for details!

Program Fee for one month: $600

For more information, please email.

Schedule for Getting it Across: A Symposium on Publishing and Performing

July 17th 9:00am to 5:00 pm

9:00 am On Your Way to a Book: Journals, Broadsides, Chapbooks, and Books, with Hank Lazer

10:30 am How to BE a Publisher, with Susan Schultz

Break for Lunch 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

2:00 pm UnCreative Writing, with Christian Bok

3:30 pm Life After the MFA: Keeping Community, the Conspiracy of Publishing, and the MFA Malaise,
with UNO Low-Res Grads Doug Bradburd, Jesse Loren, and Jennifer Stewart

SAN MIGUEL APPLICATION FORM | SAN MIGUEL CALENDAR | SAN MIGUEL COURSES

For more information about housing options, or if you have already signed up and wish to select your housing option, please email.

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