Summer Literary Seminars

sls is premised on the not-so-novel idea that one's writing can greatly benefit from the keen sense of temporary displacement created by an immersion in a thoroughly foreign culture and street vernacular; that one's removing himself/herself from the routine context of his/her life, of one's own free will, tends to provide for a creative jolt, as it were, by offering up a wholly new perspective, new angle of looking at the customary and the mundane. sls was first held in st. petersburg, russia, in 1999. we've prided ourselves on bringing together the finest american, canadian, european, and african writers and literary scholars with their russian counterparts in the midst of the literary landscape that is st. petersburg. in 2001 sls launched its new sister program, sls kenya. for many years, however, because of local and global circumstances, the program had to be postponed. in 2005 we held our first large scale program, and we now hold the program annually, using the capitol of nairobi