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Annual Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers The Gettysburg Review is pleased to announce its third annual Conference for Writers, to be held June 3-8, 2009, on the campus of Gettysburg College. We invite you to join us in creating a community of writers in a bucolic, convivial, and historic setting. Small workshops (maximum ten people per workshop) will be led by award-winning writers who have dedicated their lives to the teaching of poetry and prose. All registered conference participants will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to The Gettysburg Review. The Program Arrival and Departure Workshops, Panels, Manuscript Consultations, and Readings Admission & Scholarships Housing Cost For More Information Our Distinguished Faculty Poetry Dean Young is the author of embryoyo, Elegy on Toy Piano, Skid, First Course in Turbulence, Strike Anywhere, Design with X, and Beloved Infidel. He is the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Slate Magazine, and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the William Livingston Chair of Poetry. Nonfiction Rebecca McClanahan is the author of The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings (which won the 2005 Glasgow Award), five volumes of poetry, and three books about writing, including Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Poetry’s J. Howarf and Barbara M.J. Wood prize, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and (twice) Shenandoah’sThomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Poetry, Boulevard, the Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the Queens University low-residency MFA Program, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.
Fiction Lee K. Abbott is the author of seven collections of short stories, All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories; Dreams of Distant Lives; Strangers in Paradise; Love is the Crooked Thing; The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting; Living After Midnight; and Wet Places at Noon.He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Ohio Arts Council grant. He is a recipient of the 2004 Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He teaches at Ohio State University. If you have any questions or comments about this Web site and its contents, please contact the Webmaster. 
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