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The Southampton Writers Conference is a writers conference hosted on the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, NY each July since 1976. Participants attend for five or 12-day workshops in fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry and screenwriting. The Southampton Writers Conference is sponsored by the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing.

History
The Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference in July, which takes over the Southampton Stony Brook Campus a few miles from the dune-edged Hamptons beaches, is competitive, with acceptance based on writing samples. Participants will settle in for 12 days of intensive workshops in poetry, playwriting, fiction and creative nonfiction, and events including lectures and an open-microphone night.

Faculty
Current faculty for the 2015 Southampton Writers Conference includes – Melissa Bank, Billy Collins, Ursula Hegi, Matthew Klam, Vijay Seshadri, and Meg Wolitzer. Past Authors and Guests – Alan Alda, Laurie Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Kim Barnes, E. L. Doctorow, Mark Doty, Richard Ford, Suzanne Gluck, Amy Hempel, Bob Holman, Mary Karr, Patricia McCormick, Frank McCourt, Heather McHugh, Daniel Menaker, Marsha Norman, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht, David Rakoff, James Salter, Philip Schultz, Elizabeth Strout, Amy Tan, Kathleen Turner, Kurt Vonnegut, Derek Walcott, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Wolfe.