BELS Teacher is Norman Mailer Poetry Fellow

17 September 2014 Comments Off on BELS Teacher is Norman Mailer Poetry Fellow

Melanie Swetz, head of English at Bilkent Erzurum Laboratory School, spent three weeks in Salt Lake City, Utah, this summer on a fellowship from the Norman Mailer Center and Writer’s Colony. This is the third time Ms. Swetz has received a Mailer Fellowship.

The Mailer Fellowship programs focus on an individual’s work while at the same time providing a forum for discussion with other writers. The fellowships are intended for emerging and mid-career writers, with an emphasis on the quality of writing rather than the quantity of publications.