The application deadline is Monday, April 10. It is designed to give the students the opportunity to develop their skills as poets and fiction writers. The eight-day program includes intensive workshops, tutorials, group talks, readings, social encounters with visiting writers and other events designed to heighten the students' perceptions of what it means to be a writer says Townsend. The workshops are directed by guest experts and faculty in Denison's creative writing program.
Time is set aside for journal writing, recreation, readings, free time and other social activities.
He came to Denison in 1984 and teaches fiction, poetry writing and literature courses. After the Reunion and Sweet Home, Saturday Night, which received the 1991 Society of Midland Authors Prize for Poetry. His newest book is The Truth About Small Towns. The poetry editor of the Kenyon Review, Baker was named 1998 winner of the Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Ohio Poetry Prize by the Ohioana Library Association and 1991 Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Association. In 1995 he was awarded the Carolyn Davies Prize for outstanding lyric poet by the Poetry Society of America.