Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) is the world’s foremost, entirely one-of-a-kind international literary study and cultural organization, founded in 1998 and currently operating on three continents: North America (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Europe (Vilnius, Lithuania), and Africa (Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya). After ten years Read More
About the Program: In December 2017, SLS Kenya will relaunch in a slightly different format. We will be offering two workshops/residencies in Kenya: the first in the Loita Hills territory of the Maasai land, in the Southern Rift Valley, Read More
Summer Literary Seminars, one of the world’s preeminent international literary programs, is excited to announce our first program Read More
Tara Isabella Burton has reported travel, religion and culture stories from Iran to Uzbekistan to Argentina. She is a regular contributor to National Geographic Traveler, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, and more. She has received the Shiva Naipaul Read more »
There’s one month left to enter the SLS Fiction & Poetry contest for a chance to win a unique literary experience in Georgia or Kenya, as well as publication in Read more »
“Ariana Reines is a go-for-broke artist who honors her traditions by being like no one else. Some of us have made a fetish of our stupidity, pretending to forget history, and some of us have made a fetish of despair, Read more »
The very first incarnation of Summer Literary Seminars took place in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1998. In the past eighteen years, it has become the world’s foremost, entirely one-of-a-kind international literary study and cultural organization, operating on three continents: North Read more »
Josip Novakovich, one of the faculty for SLS Georgia 2017, is the author of April Fool’s Day: A Novel, four short story collections, three essay collections, and has had his work anthologized in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. He Read more »
Tara Isabella Burton has reported travel, religion and culture stories from Iran to Uzbekistan to Argentina. She is a regular contributor to National Geographic Traveler, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist’s
There’s one month left to enter the SLS Fiction & Poetry contest for a chance to win a unique literary experience in Georgia or <a