M. M. De Voe has just accepted the position of co-director for the SLS Seminar in Lithuania! Website will be launched soon–but in the meantime, look over the guidelines for the Summer Literary Seminar’s Writing Contest! Winner gets a full scholarship to any of the four SLS Seminar locations: St. Petersburg, Kenya, Italy, and now: Lithuania!! The two week writing seminar will be held in Vilnius, which has an old town to rival any in Europe, and a third week extension will allow for a week in Nida, famous for its white sand dunes and vast lonely beaches.

Faculty on the North-American side is a truly great, star-studded one:

David Bezmozgis (Toronto, Canada), MM De Voe (New York), Joe Kertes (Toronto), Phillip Lopate (NY), Erin Moure (Montreal, Canada), Antanas Sileika (Toronto), Laima Sruoginis (Maine-Vilnius), Catherine Tice (NY; the New York Review of Books publisher), and Lynne Tillman (NY) — plus several illustrious people as lecturers.

So check back often for updates, or link directly to the SLS portal for the launch of SLS LITHUANIA!!