We are grateful to the literary presses who are co-sponsoring the 2010 Frost Place Festival and Conference on Poetry.
 Photo by Star Black, used with permission of CavanKerry Press, Ltd. |
Now in its thirty-first year, the Festival and Conference on Poetry is a daily immersion in listening, reflection, and conversation about the writing and reading of poetry.
The 2010 Frost Place Festival and Conference on Poetry will offer lectures, talks and craft panels by faculty throughout the week. Fifteen hours of workshops during the week: your small workshop group will stay together all week with the same leader. While each fifteen-hour workshop will have its own particular slant, the focus of your week together will be on your poems and on developing your poetic skills.
Not in her workshop? You will have the opportunity to be in contact with all faculty in attendance during the week through talks, lectures, classes and readings.
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Please send six (6) pages of poetry (double-spaced, one side of the page). We will not respond to these poems nor bring them with us to Franconia. These poems do not need to be the poems you wish to have workshop’d, but they may be if desired. They are for the application only.
Please include a one-page cover letter and indicate what your goals for the week are. This statement will help us to place you in an appropriate workshop for the week. We would prefer to make this decision for you, based on your work and our pedagogical sense of what would be best for you at this point in time. You may indicate in your letter up to two choices for workshop, knowing that we may place you in another group. Please include your contact information. Email contact is required as well.
Applications postmarked through May 15, 2010 will be considered. Applicants will be notified within two weeks whether they are accepted.
Participant information will be sent with acceptance letters.
Fee of $1375.00 includes tuition, private room, and all meals. Limited financial assistance is available. Please send six (6) pages of poetry with application and application fee of $25.00 postmarked by May 15, 2010.
Commuter fee is $925. This includes tuition, welcome dinner and all lunches.
Auditors are invited for $975.00 plus $15.00 application fee. There are a limited number of auditor openings. Auditors may participate in all activities and may sit in on workshops but will not be able to participate in discussions or have their own poems reviewed.
A one-day auditing pass is $125.00 and includes morning talk, lunch, auditing a guest faculty workshop, and an evening reading. Advance reservation is required. We will notify auditors of their acceptance after the May 15, 2010 deadline.
Auditors attend all talks and readings, but do not participate in the workshops. Some people who choose to attend as an auditor have not yet had experience with rigorous writing workshops, whereas other auditors are very experienced writers who prefer to have their afternoons free for writing. Other auditors choose this option to save money on tuition. To apply as an auditor, send a brief letter describing literary interests and $15 fee.
Applications and $25.00 participant application fee or $15.00 auditor application fee along with work sample and cover letter by May 15, 2010 should be sent to:
The Frost Place
ATTN: Sue Jessen
P. O. Box 74
Franconia, NH 03580
Payment in full is due by May 25, 2010. Payment by check or credit card. If preferred, payment by credit card may be done by telephone. Contact Sue Jessen at 603-823-5510.
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