Registration
Institutions hoping to sponsor the attendance of their undergraduate or graduate students may do so at discounted registration rates. Contact Emily Carpenter at ecarpenter@chq.org.
Standard Registration:
Includes four workshop meetings with a small group of writers; an introductory intensive with all workshop participants; opportunities for a la carte individual consultations with workshop faculty; all components of Explorations Registration.
Explorations Registration:
Includes faculty readings, a community reading, the keynote address and panel discussions.
Director
Originally from Buffalo, New York, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press), a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Their other poetry books include How Narrow My Escapes (DIAGRAM/New Michigan), Personal Science (Tupelo Press), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press), and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press). Their fifth book, Negative Money, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2023. They are an Associate Professor in the departments of English, Africana Studies, and Art & Design at Northeastern University.
Past Faculty
Fiction Faculty
- Lee K. Abbott
- Dean Bakopoulos
- Aimee Bender
- Ron Carlson
- Dan Chaon
- Peter Ho Davies
- Anthony Doerr
- Tony Earley
- Brian Evenson
- Abby Frucht
- Jaimy Gordon
- Derek Green
- Laura Kasischke
- Jill McCorkle
- Tom Noyes
- Alissa Nutting
- Stewart O’Nan
- Pamela Painter
- Ann Pancake
- Deesha Philyaw
- Alberto Álvaro Ríos
- Jess Row
Nonfiction Faculty
- Faith Adiele
- Valerie Boyd
- Tom Bridwell
- Brian Broome
- Beth Ann Fennelly
- Thomas French
- Philip Gerard
- Diana Hume George
- Lee Gutkind
- Barbara Hurd
- Mary Karr
- Porochista Khakpour
- Greg Kuzma
- Suzannah Lessard
- Jacob Levenson
- Joe Mackall
- Nancy McCabe
- Dinty W. Moore
- Leslie Rubinkowski
- Mike Scalise
- Patsy Sims
Poetry Faculty
- Maggie Anderson
- Robin Becker
- Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
- David Citino
- Martha Collins
- Carl Dennis
- Denise Duhamel
- Stephen Dunn
- Frank X. Gaspar
- Margaret Gibson
- francine j. harris
- Yona Harvey
- William Heyen
- Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
- Dorianne Laux
- Rajiv Mohabir
- Malena Mörling
- Hoa Nguyen
- Alicia Ostriker
- Stanley Plumley
- Lia Purpura
- Bruce Smith
- Maura Stanton
- Michael Waters
- Marcus Wicker
Keynotes, Panelists and Breakout Leaders
- Meg Day
- Devin Donovan
- Kate Glavin
- Jimin Han
- DaMaris B. Hill
- Nicole Homer
- Linda Lowen
- Maria Maldonado
- Susannah Nevison
- Jillian Powers
- Kenyatta Rogers
- Mike Scalise
- Mathias Svalina
- Jim Tobin