Writers Converge . . . College Workshops

Southampton College's 22nd annual Summer Writers Conference will begin on July 7. Early registration has been advised to insure admittance to the events of one's choice.

The eight-day conference provides a forum for writers representing various genres to study and discuss their craft. The lectures feature readings by noted authors, who will comment on their own work, while the workshops involve participatory discussions with writers of fiction and nonfiction, and screenwriters.

Three Workshops

All the workshops will meet once a day, excluding the weekend and ending on July 16. Nahid Rachlin, an author who teaches creative writing at Barnard College, will teach the fiction workshop, from 12:15 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. Her works include: "Foreigner," "Married to a Stranger," and "The Hearts Desire."

Stephen O'Connor will lead the nonfiction workshop, which will meet from 2:30 p.m. to 4:40 p.m. Mr. O'Connor is the author of "Will My Name Be Shouted Out: Reaching Inner City Students Through the Power of Writing" and "The Orphan Trains: Charles Loring Brace and the Migration of America's Poorest Children."

The latter is a discussion of child welfare policy in 19th-century America.

Frank McAdams, an instructor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema/TV, will offer a workshop in screenwriting. Mr. McAdams's credits include "California Rain," "The Stagecoach Conspiracy," and "Vietnam War Story" for HBO.

There is a $500 tuition fee for the first workshop and $300 for each additional one, plus a $15 registration fee. On-campus housing will be provided for $200, and a meal plan is being offered for $86 a week.

The lecture series, "Writers on Writing," will be offered at 8 p.m. in the college's Ocean View Lounge.

Richard Price, who wrote "The Wanderers," "Blood Brothers," and "Clockers," all novels, and the screenplays "The Color of Money," "Sea of Love," and "Ransom," will be one of the speakers.

Roger Rosenblatt, a contributing editor of Time magazine and The New Republic and the Parsons University Professor at Southampton College, will also lecture.

So will Glenn Horowitz, who owns the eponymous rare-book store in East Hampton; the author Kaylie Jones, an East Hampton High School graduate who wrote "As Soon As It Rains" and "Quite the Other Way," and Sergei Bodrov, whose "Prisoner of the Mountains" was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign film.

Tickets to the lecture series are $50 apiece; workshop participants can attend for free.

Carla Caglioti of the colleges summer programs office can give registration information.