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Writers in Paris

This summer, live and write in Paris.

2008 Program Information
To learn more about this program, please visit the Writers in Paris page on the NYU Summer Study Aboard website. There you will find detailed information on Writers in Paris academics, housing, courses, costs, dates, and application requirements.

FACULTY

George Foy (Fiction Craft Seminar) is the author of eleven novels and one nonfiction book. His most recent novel, The Art and Practice of Explosion, won honorary mention in Foreword's Best Novel of the Year competition, and his novel Shift was finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award in literary science fiction.

Matthew Rohrer (Poetry Workshop) is the author of A Green Light, for which he was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize. He is also the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, a winner of the National Poetry Series, Rise Up, Satellite, and Nice Hat. Thanks (with Joshua Beckman). He is a recipient of the Hopwood Award for Poetry.

Helen Schulman (Fiction Writing Workshop) is the author of the short story collection, Not a Free Show, and four novels, most recently A Day at the Beach. She has been a Sundance Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and a Pushcart-Prize-winner. She has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University and at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She is also a professor and fiction coordinator for the MFA program at The New School.

Matthew Zapruder (Poetry Craft Seminar) is the founder and Editor in Chief of the acclaimed poetry publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books). He is the author of American Linden, winner of the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize, and The Pajamaist. His book of translations from the Romanian, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, will be published in 2008.

Deborah Landau (Director) is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. She has taught creative writing and literature at Brown, Antioch, The New School, and NYU, and is Director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.

The application priority deadline is March 15, 2008. Applications will be considered after this date on a space-available basis.

Program Dates
June 28-July 26, 2008

Program Schedule
Monday-Thursday
2:30pm-5:00pm: Daily workshops and craft classes in either fiction or poetry
6:00pm-8:00pm: Nightly readings & talks by acclaimed Paris-based writers and editors

8 Points of Undergraduate Credit
Open to eligible NYU and Non-NYU Students

CONTACT INFORMATION

Creative Writing Program
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th St.
New York, NY 10011

Telephone: 212-998-8816

Email: writers.in.paris@nyu.edu

Mail or deliver your completed and signed application form and any supplemental materials for this program to:

NYU Center for Study Abroad & Special Sessions
110 East 14th Street
New York, NY 10003-4170

	George Foy (Fiction Craft Seminar) is the author of eleven novels and one nonfiction book. His most recent novel, The Art and Practice of Explosion, won honorary mention in Foreword's Best Novel of the Year competition, and his novel Shift was finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award in literary science fiction.
	Matthew Rohrer (Poetry Workshop) is the author of A Green Light, for which he was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize. He is also the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, a winner of the National Poetry Series, Rise Up, Satellite, and Nice Hat. Thanks (with Joshua Beckman). He is a recipient of the Hopwood Award for Poetry.
	Helen Schulman (Fiction Writing Workshop) is the author of the short story collection, Not a Free Show, and four novels, most recently A Day at the Beach. She has been a Sundance Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and a Pushcart-Prize-winner. She has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University and at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She is also a professor and fiction coordinator for the MFA program at The New School.
	Matthew Zapruder (Poetry Craft Seminar) is the founder and Editor in Chief of the acclaimed poetry publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books). He is the author of American Linden, winner of the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize, and The Pajamaist. His book of translations from the Romanian, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, will be published in 2008.
	Deborah Landau (Director) is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. She has taught creative writing and literature at Brown, Antioch, The New School, and NYU, and is Director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.