Below Sea Level's St. Augustine Project Writers Conference

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Below Sea Level's St. Augustine Project Writers Conference

BELOW SEA LEVEL PRESENTS
The St. Augustine Project
June 1-8 2008

An Exclusive, Seven-day,
Workshop-intensive
Fiction Writing Conference
with
DOROTHY ALLISON
AND CONNIE MAY FOWLER

Special Guests:
Joy Harris, President of the New York Based Joy Harris Literary Agency
Kate Sullivan, Founder and Editor of WordSmitten Quarterly Journal
Laura van den Berg, Author, Editor of Redivider and Assistant Editor of Ploughshares

Held at the Beautiful Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida
Special Rates Apply for Conference Participants

Limited to Twenty Participants

Spend a Week in the Nation’s Oldest City Immersed in the Writing Life
with Two of America’s Most Highly Acclaimed, Award-winning Authors

Conference Features:

Morning workshops, limited to ten writers per workshop, conducted by Dorothy Allison and Connie May Fowler

Featured guest literary agent Joy Harris

Below Sea Level Lunches with agents, editors, and other literary folk

Evening reading studio sessions in which students give readings from their works-in-progress and receive feedback from Dorothy and Connie May

Schedule structured so that participants spend a full week of quality time with Dorothy and Connie May

Downtime appropriately scheduled so that participants enjoy St. Augustine and its beaches

Special conference hotel rates (The Casa Monica Hotel; $159 group rate)

The St. Augustine Project is a family friendly writers conference

St. Augustine offers an abundance of activities that writers, spouses, partners, and children can enjoy

Admission:

Admission to The St. Augustine Project is based on the quality of each writer’s manuscript submitted in their application

Applications accepted beginning September 15, 2007

Be among the select group of participants to attend Below Sea Level’s exclusive, seven-day, workshop intensive conference featuring Dorothy Allison, Connie May Fowler, literary agent Joy Harris, editors, and other literary folk

Conference attendees will enjoy a $159 per night room rate at the gorgeous Casa Monica Hotel in the Old Town district of St. Augustine.

For application details and manuscript guidelines, click here