A grant from the Ford Foundation, designed to encourage students to consider careers in academia, provides funding for the writing tutor program and for the training course, the Ford Teaching Seminar. Fiction, Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Journalism, Screenwriting and Writing for the Stage Wesleyan's writing faculty includes Tony Connor, Annie Dillard, Anne Greene, Kit Reed, F.D. Reeve, Phyllis Rose, and a number of visiting writers, most recently Amy Bloom, Tom Drury, Dana Gioia, Elizabeth Graver, Ann Harleman, Kate Rushin, Sandra Tyler, and Lis Harris. This week-long program in fiction, poetry, film, nonfiction, and literary journalism is held annually the last week in June. Participants from the US and abroad come to campus to study with the Conference's faculty of distinguished writers. Wesleyan students may enroll or work on the Conference staff.
Scholarships are available.
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