Writers talk shop at Menlo School Writers talk shop at Menlo School (February 02, 2005)

Two authors and two Stegner Fellows will discuss the craft of writing as part of Menlo School's second annual "Writers' Week" February 1-3 on the school's Atherton campus.

"This year we are devoting Writers' Week to emerging authors who have won exceptional recognition from the writing community and whose stories and poems speak to the generation of students we teach," said Jayne Benjulian, a faculty member in the school's English department who organized the program.

The authors will read from their work and give insights into the life of a writer. The schedule is:

** Tuesday, February 1: Shara Lessley and Emily Rosko, Stegner Fellows in poetry at Stanford University.

** Wednesday, February 2: Tracy K. Smith, author of "The Body's Question" and winner of the 2004 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for Poetry and the Cave Canem Prize for the best first book by an African American poet.

** Thursday, February 3: Merrill Feitell, author of "Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes" and winner of the 2004 Iowa Short Fiction Award. She was chosen by The Virginia Quarterly Review as one of "Fiction's New Luminaries."

All guest writer events will be at 12:15 p.m. in the Martin Family Lecture Hall on the Menlo campus.

Students and faculty members at Menlo will run a student-faculty cafe and read their own work on Thursday, February 3, beginning at 7 p.m. in Spieker Ballroom. Writers Week is designed to give students interested in pursing writing, either for pleasure or as a career, a chance to meet and talk with writers in an informal setting, said Ms. Benjulian.

For more information, check www.menloschool.org.

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