A grant from the Ford Foundation, designed to encourage students to consider careers in academia, provides funding for the tutor training course, the Ford Teaching Seminar. Student Prizes and Publications Students are eligible for the Wesleyan Student Poets competition and for writing prizes and awards, including the Annie Sonnenblick Writing Prize, which supports a student writer during a summer of independent work. Student writers, whatever their academic interests or major, find a large campus readership for their work through these publications. This week-long conference, held annually in the last week in June, brings to campus a faculty of distinguished writers such as Donald Justice, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Stone, and David Halberstam. The program offers seminars, manuscript consultations, and publishing advice, and covers a range of genres, from fiction and poetry to memoir, literary journalism, and screenwriting.
Participants come from the U.S. and abroad.
Wesleyan students may enroll or work on the Conference staff. Scholarships are available. David Garrow '75 won a Pulitzer Prize for Bearing the Cross. A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma.