The Squire Summer Writing Residency 2011 (SR11) offers intensive workshops with accomplished instructors, group events such as readings and discussions, a chance to share your work with other dedicated writers, a unique opportunity to bond with writers from across the state and beyond, and now, an extra day.

SR11 will begin Thursday afternoon, July 14, with registration and check-in at this year’s venue, the Hilton New Bern/Riverfront, overlooking the picturesque Trent River in historic downtown New Bern. After dinner and special programming that evening, workshop sessions in the genre of your choice—Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, or Poetry—will begin Friday morning and continue until mid-day Sunday, July 17.

Those fifteen hours of workshop time will create a community of common ground, a safe place to refine and polish your work, and maybe the opportunity and inspiration to try something new. Morning and afternoon breaks between workshop sessions give writers a leisurely writing period.

The five group meals will be followed by panel discussions, readings by instructors and residents, and other special programs, allowing participants rare insight into the craft and business of writing.

Support for this residency is provided by the NC Arts Council, the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, and the family of Chick and Elizabeth Daniels Squire.