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Hollinsummer Program
Hollins University
P.O. Box 9707
Roanoke, VA 24020-1707
(800) 456-9595
Fax: (540) 362-6218
Tinker Mountain Writers' Workshop
Hollins University
Christine Powell
P.O. Box 9552
Roanoke, VA 24020-1552
(540) 362-6229
Fax (540) 561-2325
cpowell@hollins.edu
Tinker Mountain Visual Arts
Hollins University
Dotty Weaver
P. O. Box 9552
Roanoke, VA 24020-1552
(540) 362-6021
Fax (540) 561-2325
dweaver@hollins.edu
Basketball Camp
Jim Phillips
Hollins University
P.O. Box 9553
Roanoke, VA 24020-1553
(540) 362-6424
jphillips@hollins.edu
Workshop faculty
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Fred Leebron, fiction, director Fred Leebron, program director of the M.F.A. in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte, is also a professor of English at Gettysburg College, and a former director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In addition, he is a Managing Partner of Unboxed Books, which publishes original and reprint fiction and nonfiction, and features an annual $5,000 book prize in fiction. His novels include Six Figures, In the Middle of All This, and Out West. He has received a Pushcart Prize, Michener Award, Stegner Fellowship, and O. Henry Award. He is co-editor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology and co-author of Creating Fiction: A Writer's Companion. The independent production of Six Figures premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, and he is currently at work on another film project. |
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Khris Baxter, screenwriting Khris Baxter is a screenwriter, producer, and script consultant. His body of work includes numerous optioned screenplays and one produced film. He teaches screenwriting at the low-residency M.F.A. at Queens University in Charlotte, NC, and at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. He is a member of the Virginia Film Office, where he is a judge for the annual Virginia Screenwriting Competition. Baxter is the executive producer and founder of Boundary Stone Films, a film and television development company based in Washington, D.C. He lives in Georgetown. |
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Pinckney Benedict, fiction Pinckney Benedict grew up in rural West Virginia. He has published a novel and three collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is Miracle Boy and Other Stories. His work has been published in, among other magazines and anthologies, Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, the O. Henry Award series, the Pushcart Prize series, the Best New Stories from the South series, The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction, and The Oxford Book of the American Short Story. He is the recipient of two Transatlantic Review awards, a Michener Fellowship, and the Nelson Algren Award. He has received grants from, among others, the West Virginia Arts Council, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Benedict is a professor in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. |
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Nicolas Lantz, poetry Nick Lantz is the author of two books of poetry—We Don’t Know We Don’t Know and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House — with a forthcoming third book, How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance. His M.F.A. comes from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, as well as the Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, the Council for Wisconsin Writers Posner Award, and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Larry Levis Reading Prize. His poems have appeared in journals such as Mid-American Reviews, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, and Gulf Coast. He has taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, Gettysburg College, Queens University’s Low-Residency M.F.A., Franklin & Marshall College, and the Sam Houston State University M.F.A. program. |
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James McKean, creative nonfiction James McKean writes poems and nonfiction. He has published two books of poems, Headlong and Tree of Heaven. Headlong won a 1987 Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writer Award, and Tree of Heaven won a 1994 Iowa Poetry Award. His latest poetry manuscripts, We Are the Bus, won this year’s 2011 X.J. Kennedy poetry prize and will be published in the fall of 2012 by Texas Review Press. His nonfiction has appeared in magazines and collections such as The Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, and The Best American Sports Writing 2003, and has received a Pushcart Prize. His latest book is a collection of essays titled Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports. He is professor emeritus at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and teaches in the M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte. |
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Thorpe Moeckel, advanced poetry Thorpe Moeckel is the author of three books of poems — Odd Botany, Making a Map of the River, and Venison: a poem. Chapbooks include Meltlines and The Guessing Land. He teaches in the English and creative writing program at Hollins University. A former Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill, he has received an NEA Fellowship in poetry, a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, the Gerald Cable Book Award, the George Garrett Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and a Henry Hoyns Fellowship. His poetry is featured in several anthologies, including Field Work: Modern Poems from Eastern Forests, edited by Erik Reece, and From the Fishouse. His prose and poems appear in such journals as FIELD, Open City, The Antioch Review, Poetry Daily, Orion, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. |
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Daniel Mueller, fiction and creative nonfiction Daniel Mueller’s collection of stories, How Animals Mate, won the Sewanee Fiction Prize. His work has appeared in Joyland, Joyland Retro, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Gargoyle, Surreal South, CutBank, The Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner, Another Chicago Magazine, Story Quarterly, Story, The Mississippi Review, Playboy, The Crescent Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He directs the creative writing program at the University of New Mexico and teaches on the creative writing faculty of the low-residency M.F.A. Program at Queens University of Charlotte. |
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Kathryn Rhett, nonfiction Kathryn Rhett is the author of Near Breathing, a memoir, and editor of Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis. Her poems and essays appear in Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New York Times, and elsewhere, and her essays have been selected three times as notable essays for Best American Essays. She teaches creative writing as an associate professor at Gettysburg College and as a faculty member of the M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte. |
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Ashley Warlick, fiction |
