NYWW in Athens

International ConferenceAthens
Written By Stephanie

Seven nights in boutique hotels, workshops at the Old University of Athens, visit to Delphi, readings/events in temples and ruins.

NEWSFLASH April 9: Australian novelist Julia Prendergast (The Earth Does Not Get Fat) joins faculty for NYWW in Athens & NYWW in Hydra. In Athens, Dr Prendergast will offer a workshop featuring her pioneer methodologies involving ideasthetic imagining.  She'll also participate in Stories on the Couch, for which Dr Vasilis Manousakis will apply psychoanalysis to stories, characters (and authors!). On Hydra, she'll offer a talk on ex-pat Australian authors Charmian Clift, George Johnston and their influence on the Leonard Cohen circle. 

  • May 22: Arrival -- NYWW hosted dinner, introduction to faculty, staff, orientation
    May 23 - 24: Morning/afternoon workshops (in prose, poetry, translation); 1-2 days free. ​Evening events.
    May 25: Morning free, afternoon workshop followed by panel/reading. NYWW hosted dinner.
    May 26: Trip to Delphi, tour of temple and ruins, NYWW hosted lunch, workshop in temple/ruins.
    May 27: Morning workshops; afternoon free. Evening panel/reading.
    May 28: Morning free; late afternoon workshop, followed by panel, reading, dinner/celebration/collaborations hosted by Hellenic Foundation for Culture.
    May 29: Depart -- for N    YWW in Hydra (see † below for details), or home, or elsewhere.
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    *Keynote addresses will be offered by our featured guest writer, Kim Addonizio, and by a local writer (details tk).

    Breakfast is included at all locations. NYWW will host three dinners: Sunday welcome, Wednesday celebration, and Saturday farewell, and two lunches, at our workshop location, the Old University of Athens, and in Delphi. For all other meals, participants are free to explore the many rich options available--suggestions from locals will always be available.

    All our accommodations are in Plaka, in close (walking) proximity to each other, to the University of Athens, and to the Acropolis and Acropolis Museum.

    They are: Home & Poetry, Acropolis Select, and the Adams Hotel.  

    Our sessions will be joined by local authors and students. Local authors as well as our team will offer readings and craft talks, and local writers/students will be integrated in as many activities as possible. 

    On Sunday, May 29, we say goodbye to Athens, and some of us will continue, by ferry, to the nearby island of Hydra (see † below). text goes here

  • ​Cost: $2985* (includes workshops, accommodations, events)

    Early Bird Special: $2875 (thru Feb 14, 2022)

    *for Sardinia Conference participants: $2675
    *for APWT members: $2745

    DEPOSIT: $500 (Full Payment Due by March 15, 2022)

    Refund Policy: Full Refund until April 1, 2022; 50% until April 15; 25% Refund until May 1; after May 1, no refund

    Register: to avoid fees and other irritations, we recommend using Paypal (button below), especially if you're registering from outside the US. If you need to wire transfer, write to newyorkwritersworkshop@gmail.com for details; wire transfers may be subject to an additional fee.  

  • When NYWW in Athens closes, NYWW in Hydra opens. On May 29, we board a ferry for nearby Hydra, the island famous for its arts, beaches, and Leonard Cohen's long-time residency. On the island, faculty and participants will stay in several Douskos properties: the Port House, the Guest House, and the Beach House. Each is either at or near the port and beaches, each is within walking distance of the others. We'll continue to gather in the mornings and late afternoons for workshops, panels, and readings (in the same spaces where Leonard Cohen and Australian ex-pat writers Charmian Clift & George Johnston gathered). We'll also intersect with some of the island's cultural events and host one of our own. NYWW will host one dinner on the island. 

    Cost:

    • $845 (for those who've signed on for NYWW in Athens) 

    • $1025 (for those signing on only for NYWW in Hydra)


    DEPOSIT: $500 (Full Payment Due by March 15, 2022)

    Refund Policy: Full Refund until April 1, 2022; 50% until April 15; 25% Refund until May 1; after May 1, no refund

  • If you're traveling from the US, we recommend the Tzell Travel Group. For NYWW in Sardinia 2020, Tzell handled air bookings for many of the participants and everyone was pleased with the outcomes.
    Contact Tzell Travel Group​: Al Medina, amedina@tzell.com / 212-944-03956

The Faculty

  • ​Kim Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She also has two word/music CDS: Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing (with Susan Browne) and My Black Angel, the companion to My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits, a collaboration with woodcut artist Charles D. Jones.   Her poetry has been translated into several languages including Spanish, Arabic, Italian, and Hungarian. Collections have been published in China, Spain, Mexico, Lebanon, and the UK. Addonizio’s awards include two fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Her latest books are a poetry collection, Mortal Trash (W.W. Norton), and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). A new book of poems, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, was published by W.W. Norton (March 2021).

  • Moira Egan A resident of Rome, Italy, Moira Egan earned a BA from Bryn Mawr College, an MA from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, and an MFA from Columbia University, where James Merrill chose her graduate manuscript for the David Craig Austin Prize. Her most recent collection, Synæsthesium (2017), won The New Criterion Poetry Prize. Previous books published in the U.S. are Hot Flash Sonnets  (2013); Spin (2010); Bar Napkin Sonnets (2009), which won the 2008 Ledge Poetry Chapbook Competition; and Cleave (2004). In Italy, three bilingual collections, with translations by her husband, Damiano Abeni, have appeared: Olfactorium (2018), Botanica Arcana / Strange Botany (2014), and La Seta della Cravatta / The Silk of the Tie (2009). She has also translated (with Damiano Abeni) the work of several authors into Italian, including volumes by John Ashbery, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, and Charles Wright. Egan has had writing residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (as a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow), the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and the James Merrill House. She teaches Creative Writing at the St. Stephen’s School in Rome. 

  • Damiano Abeni is an epidemiologist. He has been translating American poetry since 1973, when he spent a year in Arizona. He collaborates with numerous publishing houses and literary magazines, and is an honorary citizen on cultural merits of the cities of Tucson, Arizona, and Baltimore, Maryland. He lives in Rome with his wife, the poet Moira Egan.

  • Vasilis Manousakis is a short-story writer, poet and translator, whose work has appeared in New American Writing, Hayden's Ferry Review, Barcelona Ink, Parentheses and Drunken Boat among others. He writes reviews and translates poetry and short stories for literary magazines and e-zines. He has been one of the founding members of Bonsai Stories, the blog directly linked to Planodion literary magazine. The blog is dedicated to Flash Fiction and work from many well-known writers from Greece, the United States and other countries has appeared there. These flash stories have been collected in two printed volumes so far and a special tribute to 9/11 stories has appeared in a third volume, in which Vasilis was in the editorial committee. He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary American Poetry and currently teaches Creative Writing, Modern Poetry, Short Fiction and Literary Translation at the Hellenic American College, Athens, Greece. His focus on the human thought and behavior in his writings has led him to a Master's Program in Mental Health Counselling and he holds individual and group sessions with clients, specialising in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.  

  • Julia Prendergast is a writer of short and long-form fiction. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, on unceded Wurundjeri land. Julia’s novel, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, was published in 2018 and longlisted for the Indie Book Awards for debut fiction. Her short stories have been recognised and published: Lightship Anthology International Short Story Competition (UK), Ink Tears International Short Story Competition (UK), Glimmer Train International Short Story Competition (US), Séan Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition (IE), TEXT, Elizabeth Jolley Prize, Josephine Ulrick Prize (AU). Julia’s short story collection is forthcoming (October 2022). Julia is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Coordinator (Writing) at Swinburne University. She is Chair of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), the peak academic body representing the discipline of Creative Writing in Australasia. Julia is a practice-led researcher—an enthusiastic supporter of transdisciplinary, open and collaborative research practices, with a particular interest in neuropsychoanalytic approaches to writing and creativity. Her research has appeared in various publications including New Writing (UK), TEXT (AU), Testimony Witness Authority: The Politics and Poetics of Experience (UK).

  • Ravi Shankar Pushcart-prize winning poet, author, editor, translator, and professor, Ravi Shankar is the author and editor of over fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including the Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems: 1998-2018 (Recent Works Press); W.W. Norton & Co.'s Language for a New Century called a "beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer; the Muse India Award winning translations of 8th century Tamil poet/saint Autobiography of a Goddess (Zubaan/University of Chicago Press); the National Poetry Review Prize winning Deepening Groove; the Carolina Wren judges award winning What Else Could it Be; and the finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards Instrumentality, poems from which have appeared around the world. Translated into over 12 languages and recipient of a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner as well as winner of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, Shankar has taught at such institutions as Columbia University, Fairfield University, the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Sydney. He has held fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Jentel Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Blue Mountain Center and many others. Recipient of numerous grants and awards, including multiple "Excellence-in-Teaching Awards," his students have gone on to publish dozens of books of their own. Granted fellowships by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rhode Island State Commission on the Arts, Shankar has been featured in The New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, BBC, NPR and the PBS Newshour. His essays have appeared in such places as the Georgia Review, the Hartford Courant, and for the Poetry Society of America. He has been featured at the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry International and he founded one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, Drunken Boat, winner of a South-by-Southwest Web Award. He currently teaches for the New York Writers Workshop and lives a nomadic existence centered around Boston, Massachusetts and Sydney, Australia. In addition to performances and lectures, he is available for individual consultancy, workshops, editing and mentoring services around the world. 

  • Tim Tomlinson’s books include Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire (poetry), This Is Not Happening to You (short fiction), The Portable MFA in Creative Writing (as co-author), and the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse. Recent work appears in Another Chicago Magazine, Joao Roque Literary Journal, Litro, and Telephone: A Game of Art Whispered Around the World (Crosstown Press). He’s traveled heavily throughout the Asia-Pacific region, and has lived in China, the Philippines, and Thailand. He’s a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and a professor in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies. 

Local Scholars

Marina Galanou earned a BA English Language and Literature, with a minor in psychology from the Hellenic American College. In 2019, she received the President’s Award for Student  Leadership. At the University of Nottingham, UK, she earned an MA in Stylistics, where she wrote her dissertation on pragmatics and theater. She  would like to continue her studies and pursue a PhD in Theater, as well as an academic career.

Rami Alexios Ampou-Chantitzi, aka James Kingston, holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Hellenic American University, with a minor in theater. He’s been writing long and short forms of fiction in English and in Greek since childhood, and he’s excited to bring those interests to the New York Writers Workshop Conference in Athens, May 2022. Rami says, εγγραφείτε σήμερα υπάρχουν ακόμα θέσεις!

 *we will be joined by local poets, writers, some ex-pats, some native Greeks

Stephanie www.supergrace.ch
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