2016 Brown CALLALOO CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP - A Call for Applications

CALLALOO, the premier literary journal of the African Diaspora, is now accepting applications for the 2016 Brown CALLALOO CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP (CCWW) until November 1, 2015. We invite submissions of poetry or fiction for admission consideration for this two-week workshop, which will be hosted by the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University, June 12-25, 2016.

Gregory Pardlo, Vievee Francis, Ravi Howard, and Jacinda Townsend will serve as the 2016 workshop leaders.

Gregory Pardlo’s collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Digest‚Äã was also shortlisted for the‚Äã 2015 NAACP Image Award and is a current finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His other honors‚Äã include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. Pardlo's poems appear in‚Äã The Nation, Ploughshares, ‚ÄãTin House, T‚Äãhe Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere.

Vievee Francis is the author of Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), which won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize for a second collection, and Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University, 2006). Her third book, Forest Primeval, was released in 2015 (Northwestern University Press).

Ravi Howard was, in 2008, a finalist for The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for his debut novel, Like Trees, Walking. In 2008, he won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His second novel, Driving the King, was published in January 2015.

Jacinda Townsend is the author of Saint Monkey (Norton, 2014), which is set in 1950s Eastern Kentucky and won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Saint Monkey was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and was longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and shortlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize.

HOW TO APPLY: Applications must be submitted online at http://callaloo.expressacademic.org/login.php no later than November 1, 2015. Each applicant must submit a brief cover letter and writing sample (no more than five pages of poetry or twelve pages of prose fiction). To complete & submit your application, go to http://callaloo.tamu.edu/node/239.

For additional information, email (callaloo@tamu.edu) or call (979-458-3108). Find the CCWW FAQ online, as well