July 7, 2003
Stonecoast Writers' Conference Offers Free Readings
Once again, bibliophiles and poetry lovers can enjoy some
best-selling authors and aspiring writers as they give readings
of their work at the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast
Writers' Conference. Now in its 24th year, Stonecoast is a
resident conference running from Friday, July 18, through
Sunday, July 27, in USM's Stone House in Freeport. Housing
is on Bowdoin's campus in Brunswick, where the evening readings
also take place.
Perhaps Stonecoast's most renowned alumnus is Carolyn Chute,
who attended the conference prior to the publication of "The
Beans of Egypt Maine."
This year novelists Dennis Lehane, author of the best-selling
"Mystic River;" Jonathan Lethem, author of "Motherless Brooklyn,"
a New York Times Book Review Notable Book; and A. Manette
Ansay, author of the Oprah Book Club selection, "Vinegar Hill";
are among the authors who will give readings from their work
for conference participants and the public. Poets Stephen
Dunn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Dzvinia
Orlowsky, and Betsy Sholl also will do public readings.
With a national reputation as a teaching conference, Stonecoast's
mission is to foster talent and to improve student writing.
On the faculty this year are agents and editors as well as
writers. Admission is based on submission of a short manuscript
in the desired area of study.
For more information on Stonecoast, contact USM's Summer
Session at 780-5617.
A schedule of readings that are free and open to the public
appears below:
Friday, July 18
Stonecoast Writers' Conference public reading by poets Barbara
Hurd and Dzvinia Orlowsky, 8 p.m., Moulton Union Main Lounge,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, free and open to the public, 780-5617.
Saturday, July 19
Stonecoast Writers' Conference public reading by author A.
Manette Ansay, 7:30 p.m., Moulton Union Main Lounge, Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, free and open to the public, 780-5617.
Sunday, July 20
Stonecoast Writers' Conference public readings by authors
Dianne Benedict and Tom Perrotta, 7:30 p.m., Moulton Union
Main Lounge, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, free and open to
the public, 780-5617.
Monday, July 21
Stonecoast Writers' Conference public readings by authors
B. Lee Hope and Betsy Sholl, 1:30 p.m., USM's Stone House,
642 Wolf Neck Rd., Freeport, free and open to the public,
780-5617.
Tuesday, July 22
Stonecoast Writers' Conference student readings by the Stonecoast
Scholarship winners, nonfiction, and short story workshop
participants, 1:30 p.m., USM's Stone House, 642 Wolf Neck
Rd., Freeport.
Evening readings by poet Stephen Dunn and author Dennis Lehane,
7:30 p.m., Moulton Union Main Lounge, Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
all readings are free and open to the public, 780-5617.
Wednesday, July 24
Stonecoast Writers' Conference public readings by Stonecoast
alumni Eric May, Patricia McNair and Anne Marie Oomen, 1:30
p.m., USM's Stone House, 642 Wolf Neck Rd., Freeport.
Evening readings by authors Elizabeth Gaffney and Michael
Steinberg, 7:30 p.m., Moulton Union Main Lounge, Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, free and open to the public, 780-5617.
Friday, July 25
Stonecoast Writers' Conference student readings by the Stonecoast
Scholarship winners, novel, poetry and popular fiction workshop
participants, 1:30 p.m., USM'Ős Stone House, 642 Wolf Neck
Rd., Freeport.
Evening readings by authors Dennis Nurske and Valerie Wilson
Wesley, 7:30 p.m., Moulton Union Main Lounge, Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, free and open to the public, 780-5617.
Saturday, July 26
Stonecoast Writers' Conference public reading by author Jonathan
Lethem, 7:30 p.m., Moulton Union Main Lounge, Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, free and open to the public, 780-5617.
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