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Member Directory
Island Institute
Writers' Residencies & Sitka Symposium
| Contact: | Carolyn Servid | ||
| Address: | Island Institute, P.O. Box 2420, Sitka, AK 99835 | ||
| Phone: | 907-747-3794 | ||
| Fax: | 907-747-6554 | ||
| E-mail: | island@ak.net | ||
| Website: | http://www.islandinstitutealaska.org | ||
| Dates: | September, November, January, and April each academic year | ||
| Application Deadline: | April 15 each year | ||
| Tuition: | N/A | ||
| Scholarships: | Housing and $300 stipend provided for each resident | ||
| Description: | The Island Institute's Writers' Residencies provide opportunities for four writers to each spend a month in Sitka, Alaska, pursuing their own work and getting to know this unique island community in the forested coastal mountains of Southeast Alaska. Residents' time is largely their own to pursue their work, but each person is expected to take part in a community activity approximately once a week (more if desired). These might include public readings, talks to school or college classes, writing workshops, radio interviews, discussions with special interest groups, or other events appropriate to the writer's background. Each resident is provided living accommodations including a kitchen and a stipend of $300 toward food costs. Travel to and from Sitka, as well as all other incidental costs, are the responsibility of the resident. Three positions are filled by application. There is a single application deadline of April 15 for positions in September of that year and January and April of the following year. The November position each year is reserved for an international writer who comes to Sitka from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. The program aims to encourage the work of both promising and published writers who share the interests of The Island Institute - the nature of vital communities, the social and ethical web of human relationships and connections to the natural world, the global effort to shape sustainable human cultures. Testimony about the program: "A gift of uninterrupted working time is immeasurably valuable to any creative endeavor. There are three ways, however, in which The Island Institute's gift differs from other residency programs- | ||
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| Contact: | Carolyn Servid | ||
| Address: | Island Institute, P.O. Box 2420, Sitka, AK 99835 | ||
| Phone: | 907-747-3794 | ||
| Fax: | 907-747-6554 | ||
| E-mail: | island@ak.net | ||
| Website: | http://www.islandinstitutealaska.org | ||
| Dates: | June 18-22, 2008 | ||
| Application Deadline: | None, but enrollment is limited to 60 | ||
| Tuition: | $350 before May 1; $375 after May 1 | ||
| Scholarships: | Available, but limited | ||
| Genres: | Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction | ||
| Faculty: | 2008: Pulitzer Prize finalist William deBuys, poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming, Inupiat tribal advocate Vernita Herdman, and essayist Don Snow. | ||
| Description: | Guest faculty will lead participants in engaging conversations about the commons--those shared assets, both natural and cultural, that we inherit and create as humans. Air, water, ecosystems, ideas, music, and stories are among the gifts of the commons. Symposium discussion will consider the threats posed to these assets through privatization and globalization, and ways we can contribute to and sustain this shared well-being for all. | ||
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