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<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Summer Literary Seminars
in St. Petersburg (<st1:country-region>Russia</st1:country-region>), one of
the world’s most vibrant and dynamic international literary programs,
announces the opening of enrollment for its 2005 session. Among the superlative-defying
teaching and in-residence faculty:</font></p>
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<td valign=top class="Normal"> <p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>From
the USA</strong></font></p></td>
<td valign=top class="Normal"> <p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>From
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<td valign=top class="Normal"> <p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">John
<span class=SpellE>Dufresne</span><br>
Mary <span class=SpellE>Gaitskill</span><br>
Mark <span class=SpellE>Halperin</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Saskia</span> Hamilton<br>
Mikhail <span class=SpellE>Iampolsky</span><br>
Richard <span class=SpellE>Katrovas</span><br>
Paul Keegan<br>
<span class=SpellE>Vitaly</span> <span class=SpellE>Komar</span><br>
Jonathan Lethem<br>
Sam <span class=SpellE>Lypsyte</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Glyn</span> Maxwell<br>
Josip Novakovich<br>
Carlin Romano<br>
George Saunders<br>
Jim Shepard<br>
Catherine Tice<br>
Peter Trachtenberg<br>
William T. <span class=SpellE>Vollman</span><br>
Noah <span class=SpellE>Wardrip-Fruin</span><br>
Max Winter </font></p></td>
<td valign=top class="Normal"> <p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class=SpellE>Arkadii</span>
<span class=SpellE>Dragomoshchenko</span><br>
Sergey <span class=SpellE>Gandlevsky</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Linor</span> <span class=SpellE>Goralik</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Dmitry</span> <span class=SpellE>Kuzmin</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Stanislav</span> <span class=SpellE>Lvovsky</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Dmitry</span> <span class=SpellE>Prigov</span><br>
Lev <span class=SpellE>Rubinshtein</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Alexandre</span> <span class=SpellE>Skidan</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Andrey</span> <span class=SpellE>Zorin</span></font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>From
Canada</strong><br>
Stephanie Bolster<br>
Louis Patrick <span class=SpellE>Leroux</span> </font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>From
Kenya</strong><br>
<span class=SpellE>Binyavanga</span> <span class=SpellE>Wainaina</span>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="OLE_LINK3">Our
annual literary contest (prose, poetry), held in conjunction with FENCE magazine,
is currently accepting submissions. The authors of the winning poetry and
prose entries will receive airfare, accommodations, and a full tuition waiver
to the 2005 SLS program in St. Petersburg, Russia, AND publication of the
winning entry in FENCE. Second place receives a full tuition waiver to SLS
2005, and third brings with it a substantial tuition scholarship. Other hand-picked
contest participants from among the non-winners will be offered tuition scholarships
as well, based on the strength of their work.</a></font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Send your work, along
with the $10 entry fee (made payable to Summer Literary Seminars), to PO Box
1358, Schenectady, NY 12301. Deadline: February 28, 2005.</font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">For all the detailed
information on the program and the complete contest guidelines, see the SLS
website at www.sumlitsem.org.</font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We look forward to seeing
some of you next summer in St. Petersburg, a city of immense beauty, great
mystery and unmatched literary history.</font></p>
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