Contact: Scott Shelters
Phone: 716-357-6248
Email: press@ciweb.org
Time is Running out to Register for Chautauqua Writers' Festival. Only eight openings remain for those interested in becoming students in Chautauqua Writers' Center's eighth annual Writers' Festival.
The festival, which is co-sponsored by Clarion University, Penn State Erie and University of North Carolina at Wilmington, will be held from June 16 to June 19 and features award-winning writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction writers Jill McCorkle and Ron Carlson, nonfiction writers Philip Gerard and Valerie Boyd, and poets Frank X. Gaspar and Denise Duhamel will all be at Chautauqua Institution for this year's festival.
Each of the six writers instructs workshops for up to twelve students at a time. Registrants choose between the writers and are assigned workshops based on the order in which they register.
Limited openings remain for each of the workshops. Spots are also available in the Conference Program, which includes workshops, individual conferences, panel discussions and much more.
Housing and meal plans are available. Those interested in enrolling in the Writers' Festival can visit http://writers.ciweb.org for more information.
The Writers' Festival also provides excellent entertainment opportunities for the general public, including readings by the workshop leaders. Readings take place each night from Thursday, June 16 to Saturday, June 18. Tickets are $10 at the door.
Chautauqua Institution is a summer community located in southwestern New York State on Chautauqua Lake. Chautauqua specializes in the arts, education, religion and recreation and hosts over 2,200 events and 170,000 guests each summer.
Chautauqua is also the home of the oldest continuous national book club in the United States (Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle) and the Chautauqua Writers' Center. The Writers' Center, now in its 23rd year, offers weekly workshops in poetry and prose throughout Chautauqua's regular summer season.
This year's nine-week season runs from June 25 to August 28. For more information visit www.ciweb.org.
