Global: Bread Loaf Writers Conference - Scholarships available

The Bread Loaf Writers Conference, which was founded by Robert Frost in 1925 and is the oldest and most distinguished writers’ conference in America, is offering a fellowship to either an African or Caribbean poet, fiction or nonfiction writer to attend the 2008 conference, August 13-24. Named after Michael and Marylee Fairbanks, the Fairbanks International Fellowship is in its third year of existence. The previous winners have been Glaydah Namukasa, a novelist from Uganda, and Stanley Gazemba, a writer from Kenya .