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COMING IN 2010
SLS Italy - a study abroad program with a literary emphasis - follows in spirit and format our other two SLS programs, bringing the best Contemporary writers of the moment together. Viewing our past faculty in SLS Russia and SLS Kenya, you'll find winners of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awards, poet laureates, best selling authors and top scholars in their field.
One of the SLS main characteristic features is its teaching faculty’s and writers-in-residence's accessibility in answering participants’ questions and in helping to solve any arising issues concerning their work. The faculty and the participants also spend considerably more time together outside of the classroom than in most other literary programs, both in the US and abroad.
About
the Program
Participants in the writing seminars will include individuals of all ages and all levels of accomplishment: gifted beginners and writers who have already begun publishing; undergraduate and graduate students of creative writing; and people turning (or returning) to writing relatively late in life. All are treated with equal respect by the SLS faculty and writers-in-residence. Please bear in mind: One does not necessarily have to be an accomplished writer to attend Summer Literary Seminars in Vasto: an abiding love of literature, intellectual curiosity, openness to new artistic and cultural experiences, and the sincere desire to deepen one's understanding of the creative process while being immersed in the ethereal atmosphere of Italy's coast, are the only prerequisites.
