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GUIDELINES

P lease submit up to 20 pages (when double-spaced, as a Word document) of fiction or nonfiction. Manuscripts should be unpublished works, and should be pasted into an e-mail form and sent with your application form by e-mail. The manuscript does not need to appear double-spaced within the email form. This submission will be used only for evaluation purposes by the conference organizers.

If the piece you’re submitting is excerpted from a longer work, please make sure the excerpt is self-contained. For fiction submissions, please do not send genre fiction or children's/young adult literature. For nonfiction submissions, we are looking for articles of magazine length and style, memoir, and creative nonfiction, as well as investigative and political reporting and essays. We will be discussing blogs at the conference, but blog-writing samples are not appropriate for the submission process.

You will be notified about acceptance within one month from the day your application is received.

If accepted to the Writers Gathering, once you are registered, you will be asked in May to mail hard copies of the writing sample you wish to present for workshop activities. Details on the registration process will be emailed to those accepted for the program.

The application fee is $25 and must be paid via PayPal. Please include your PayPal transaction ID number on your application form.

TUITION & FEES

$25 application fee

$450 tuition for registrations postmarked on or before March 15, 2008

$550 tuition for registrations postmarked after March 16, 2008

The application fee is payable only by PayPal. Checks will be accepted for payment of tuition, in addition to the PayPal method. Details will be made available with acceptance notification.

DEADLINES

T he Beaver Island Writers Gathering is accepting applications beginning January 1, 2008. Students are encouraged to apply early, as the workshops are expected to fill quickly. Forty-five students will be accepted for this unique and intimate writers retreat.

You will be notified about acceptance or rejection within one month of our receipt of your application.

Acceptance to this workshop is based on the strength and promise of the submitted writing sample, and on the BIWG organizers’ evaluations of how individuals will contribute to and benefit from the conference.

Once accepted, prospective attendees will be encouraged to register and pay tuition before March 15, 2008, in order to take advantage of the early registration discount. The sooner you register, the better chance you have of attending the conference. Details for registration will be emailed to those accepted to the Writers Gathering.

APPLICATION

P lease follow the instructions listed on the application form. If you have questions, please e-mail them to info [at] beaverislandwriters [dot] org.