Annual Conference
Scheduled for July 2011
In partnership with Concordia University’s Summer Literary Seminars program, LSI will offer Literary Lithuania – a study abroad program with a literary emphasis, bringing the best Contemporary writers of the moment together. Viewing our past faculty, 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 conference’s 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. It is an exciting, personal experience; one which often results in profound friendships and wonderful new contacts in the industry.
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 Lithuania: 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 magical, medieval atmosphere of Eastern Europe, are the only prerequisites.
Students generally enroll in one morning seminar and one afternoon seminar as their core classes. The seminars meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. In addition there will be lectures on Lithuanian Literature and Culture, travel writing, and folk arts as well as other writing-themed and cultural lectures. Readings, roundtable discussions and tours of the city and its outlying areas will also be included in the SLS Lithuania experience.
