KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR
The Key West Literary Seminar welcomes readers and writers to this subtropical island city. Our flagship program is the annual Seminar, a four-day program which explores a unique literary theme each January. Our Writers’ Workshop Program offers instruction and community to writers of all levels, while our awards and scholarships recognize emerging writers of exceptional merit and support teachers and librarians. Through Littoral, our online journal, and our Audio Archives Project, we present exclusive literary resources to readers worldwide.
Our 30th annual seminar takes place January 5–8, 2012. “Yet Another World: Literature of the Future” features some of the most innovative writers working today: Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, Michael Cunningham, Jennifer Egan, Rivka Galchen, William Gibson, James Gleick, Robert Krulwich, Jonathan Lethem, Janna Levin, Valerie Martin, Joyce Carol Oates, Dexter Palmer, George Saunders, Gary Shteyngart, James Tate, Colson Whitehead, and Charles Yu. Together with these esteemed writers, we will explore the potential of the present moment, pursuing it through dystopian, utopian, and imagined worlds that shed light on our current condition.
Click here for the complete schedule of events for “Yet Another World.” Sunday afternoon’s session is free and open to the public. All other sessions are sold out. Stay informed about “Yet Another World” by reading the 2012 tag on Littoral, our online journal; or join the conversation on Facebook. On Twitter, we’re @KeyWestLiterary, and we invite KWLS tweeters to use the hashtag #yetanotherworld.
Our 2012 writers’ workshops are led by faculty including Paulette Bates Alden, Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Valerie Martin, Mary Morris, Lee Smith, Robert Stone, and Dara Wier.
In 2013 we present “Writers on Writers,” with James Atlas, Rosalind Brackenbury, Geoff Dyer, Jay Parini, Robert D. Richardson, Phyllis Rose, Julie Salamon, Judith Thurman, Edmund White, Brenda Wineapple, and more. Registration is open now. Writers’ workshops and scholarship opportunities will be announced in the spring.
Whether you join us for the seminar and writers’ workshops or not, be sure to visit Littoral, for an exploration of Key West’s rich life of letters.