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The Open Writing Workshop is designed for fiction writers of all levels of experience and working in a variety of genres. Writers in the workshop share their work in a professional studio setting and receive commentary on works in progress from published writers and editors.
TIME: 9:30 a.m. to Noon
PLACE: BGSU Campus
MANUSCRIPT: One short story or novel chapter, not to exceed 15 typed, double-spaced pages.
WENDELL MAYO is recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Fulbright to Lithuania, and author of three story collections: Centaur of the North (Arte Público Press), winner of the Aztlán Prize; B. Horror and Other Stories (Livingston Press); and a novel-in-stories, In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press). Over eighty of his short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including the Yale Review, Harvard Review, Manoa, Missouri Review, Threepenny Review, Indiana Review, and Chicago Review. A native of Corpus Christi, Texas, he completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Ohio State University; B.A. in Print Journalism at the University of Toledo; M.F.A. in fiction at Vermont College; and his Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century Literatures at Ohio University. He teaches fiction writing, form and theory of fiction, and modern and contemporary literatures at Bowling Green State University, where he also directs the 42-year-old Masters and Bachelor of Fine Arts Programs.
Each fiction manuscript must be accompanied by a $50 check ($35 for BGSU students and alumni), payable to "Bowling Green State University." Please include your address and telephone number on your manuscript. Send your check and TWO COPIES of your manuscript to: Mary Ann Sweeney, Creative Writing Program / Department of English, 211 East Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403. Deadline: postmarked by Friday, April 2, 2010. Since space is limited, please register early. If the workshop is full, your payment will be refunded. Questions? Contact Mary Ann Sweeney, tel. 419-372-6864; e-mail, masween@bgsu.edu. Visit us online at