Cool Writing Workshops for Teachers and Librarians

[susanstinson]

I wish I qualified for this, but maybe you do: writing workshops in NYC for middle school and high school teachers, librarians and administrators, complete with stipend:

2009 Cullman Center Summer Seminars for Teachers

 

July 13 – 17

Writing About New York: A Creative Writing Workshop

Taught by writer and critic Phillip Lopate

 

July 20 – 24

Race and Slavery in Antebellum America

Taught by Columbia University professor Ezra Tawil

 

July 27 – 31

Telling Tales: A Fiction Writing Workshop

Taught by novelist and biographer Edmund White

 

The Summer Seminars program at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers teachers the chance to spend a week enriching their understanding of history, literature, and research in one of the world’s greatest libraries.

 

The Cullman Center, located in The New York Public Library’s landmark building on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, is the setting for a series of stimulating, informal, daily seminars led by some of the world’s finest writers, literary critics, and historians. Participants will also learn how to use the extraordinary resources of the Library and be given time to do their own research and writing in a congenial setting.

 

The Cullman Center’s Seminars are limited to fourteen participants each. Middle school and high school English teachers, history teachers, librarians, and administrators are invited to apply.

 

Amenities provided for Seminar participants include:

•                    A $300 stipend

•                    All required books and course materials

•                    Private office (with networked computer)

•                    Gourmet breakfasts and lunches

 

The Cullman Center is made possible by a generous endowment from Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman in honor of Brooke Russell Astor, with major support provided by Mrs. John L. Weinberg, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Estate of Charles J. Liebman, Mel and Lois Tukman, John and Constance Birkelund, The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, and additional gifts from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Helen and Roger Alcaly, The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, William W. Karatz, The Rona Jaffe Foundation, Lybess Sweezy and Ken Miller, and The Achelis and Bodman Foundations.

 

More information about the seminars and applications are available online at http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/summerseminars.html

 

The application deadline is Monday, March 30th, 2009

Comments

[withoutscene.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I told my friend, a librarian, who's writing a novel.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Yay! A workshop with Edmund White should be fabulous.

[maryjholliday.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. I passed it along to my high school english-teacher GF. :)

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

I love that.