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Classes and discussion sessions:

Novel and Short Story
Roxana Robinson, award-winning fiction writer whose novel Cost was selected by the Washington Post as one of the five best fiction books of 2008

Alexander Chee, award winning fiction writer and essayist, author of the novel Edinburgh

Nonfiction, Journalism, and Freelance Writing
Lis Harris, award-winning writer and journalist whose books include Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family, Rules of Engagement: Four American Marriages, and Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty dealings and the Corporate Squeeze

Alexandra Peers, noted freelance writer and former editor, reporter and columnist at the Wall Street Journal

Ravi Shankar, award-winning poet, producer/founding editor of Drunken Boat, International Online Journal of Arts and Literature

Special Events:

Blogs and Digital Media
Kit Reed, award-winning writer whose novels include Enclave, The Baby Merchant and Thinner Than Thou

Ron Hogan, Editor and publisher of Beatrice.com and GalleyCat.com, Mediabistro.com's publishing industry news blog

Lis Harris, award-winning writer and journalist whose books include Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family, Rules of Engagement: Four American Marriages, and Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty dealings and the Corporate Squeeze

Paul Vidich, recent graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program. He was a senior executive of Warner Music and AOL divisions of Time Warner.

Josh Henkin, author whose novels include Matrimony, named a New York Times Notable Book. His editor is Lexy Bloom at Vintage and Anchor Books.

Panel featuring Johnny Temple of Akashic Books, publisher of urban literary fiction and political nonfiction,

Agents and Editors
A panel featuring agents Julie Barer, Lexy Bloom, and Abigail Holstein

The 2009 Padraic Colum Event and Reading
Andre Aciman is the author of the novel Call Me by Your Name, of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, and of False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. He has also co-authored and edited The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. Born in Alexandria, he lived in Italy and France. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at Princeton University and Bard College and is currently the chair of The CUNY Graduate Center's Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature and the director of The Writers' Institute at The Graduate Center. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from The New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as in several volumes of Best American Essays

Book-signing to follow.

Festival of the New, Thursday, June 18
Schedule of Events:
9 AM- 12 PM: Classes in novel, short story, non-fiction, journalism and freelance writing
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 5:30 PM: Advice for writers at every stage of their careers: Blogs and digital media, Choosing an MFA Program, Preparing your work for publication, The future of publishing, Talks with editors and agents
6-7:30 Supper
8 pm Andre Aciman - The 2009 Padraic Colum Event and Reading

Pre-register for the day's program. You are welcome to attend any or all of these events.
Event locations will be announced in an email you'll receive before June 13.

Wesleyan Writers Conference- A Special One Day Event...

Celebrating The New