Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing

Named for the lauded novelist and Bucknell graduate and initiated in the fall of 1993, the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing offers an emerging writer four months of unfettered writing time during Bucknell's fall semester, without formal academic obligations. The Residence is designed to grant the writer time to complete a first or second book. The resident presents a public reading of his or her work and otherwise constitutes a literary presence on campus during the fall. Providing lodging on campus, an office in the Stadler Center for Poetry, and a stipend of $4,000, the Residence is awarded to writers of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) and poets on an alternating basis.

In Spring 2011, the Stadler Center will be accepting applications 2011-12 Philip Roth Residence, which will be awarded to a writer of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction). The Residence will extend from late August through mid-December 2011. The application deadline is February 11, 2011. For eligibility and application requirements, and to submit an application, please use the SCP Application Portal, below.

Roth Residence in Creative Writing

To be eligible, an applicant must be at least 21 years of age, reside in the United States, and not be enrolled as a student in a college or university. (Persons enrolled in a college or university at the time of application are eligible). Some record of publication is desirable. Please note that the 2011-12 Roth Residence will be awarded to a writer of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction). Poets may apply in spring 2012 for the 2012-13 Residence.

Application requirements: letter of application, curriculum vita, writing sample, three letters of recommendation.

 

Stadler Center for Poetry
Bucknell Hall
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
570-577-1853 phone
570-577-1885 fax
stadlercenter@bucknell.edu

 

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Leslie Harrison
Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing, 2010-11

Leslie Harrison's debut book of poems, Displacement, won the 2008 Bakeless prize in poetry and was published by Mariner Books, a division of Houghton Mifflin, in July of 2009. She holds graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Irvine. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies, including the Best of the Web and Best of the Net anthologies, The New Republic, Poetry, Memorious, Barn Owl Review, and elsewhere. She has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and a Bakeless Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She lives in a small house in a small town in rural western Massachusetts.

 

Events for Leslie Harrison

Poetry Reading
Tuesday, October 12
4 p.m., Willard Smith Library, Vaughan Literature Building

The reading is free and open to the public.