Writers in Paradise at Eckerd College returns January 13-20, 2024, and applications are now open. Specific grant opportunities are also available to students.
Eckerd College Writers in Paradise Program (WIP) is a renowned conference that brings together established authors, agents, and publishers for a week imparting knowledge on a group of aspiring writers from across the country. Founded by bestselling, award-winning authors Dennis Lehane and Sterling Watson, Eckerd’s WIP presents an opportunity for budding creatives to workshop their poems, essays, short fiction, and novel manuscripts with a diverse group of editors.
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St. Pete Poet Laureate, and winner of the Poetry Gold Medal Florida Book Awards, Gloria Munoz, will return to Eckerd College as this year’s Emerging Artist in Poetry.
Writers in Paradise supports emerging authors
This year, Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer-prize finalist and “literary badass” (NPR), joins the Workshop Faculty at Writers in Paradise for the first time. NYT Editor’s Choice and “Best Books to Read in 2023” by Today, author of the short story collection, When Trying to Return Home, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, will read and lecture at Writers in Paradise as this year’s Emerging Artist in Fiction.
International best-selling debut sensation whose short story collection, If I Survive You, has garnered countless accolades including the PEN/Faulkner Award and National Book Award short lists, Jonathan Escoffery, will close out the 2024 conference.
This year’s faculty includes Madeleine Blais, Ann Hood, Andre Dubus III, Luis Alberto Urrea, Stewart O’Nan, Laura Lippman, Michael Koryta, Denise Duhamel, Ana Menéndez, and Les Standiford.
More information can be found on the WIP website.
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