Summer Intensive in Creative Writing
X32.9082
/ $2,860
SUMMER 2009
Continuing Education:
Writing and Speech
Become a member of a select writers' community this summer. During this two-week program, mornings are spent in improvisation workshops taught by faculty of the NYU-SCPS McGhee Division. Afternoons are spent in craft workshops in either poetry or prose taught by distinguished visiting writers. Evenings are reserved for readings.
- Work with award-winning writers.
- Develop your craft in poetry or prose through daily assignments and critiques.
WHO SHOULD ENROLL
This program is designed for beginning and experienced poets, and fiction and nonfiction writers who wish to develop and refine their craft. Students should have prior experience in poetry or prose.
FACULTY
NYU-SCPS Paul McGhee Division undergraduate faculty members: Ruth Danon, April Krassner, and Catherine Barnett.
2009 visiting writers:
Honor Moore (nonfiction) is the author of The Bishop's Daughter (2008), a memoir, to be published in paperback in May 2009. Moore has received awards in poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the graduate writing programs at the New School and Columbia University School of the Arts.
Percival Everett (fiction) is the author of 15 novels, including American Desert. He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He teaches at the University of Southern California.
Meena Alexander (poetry) is the author of four books of poetry, including Quickly Changing River. she has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center-City University of New York.
PROGRAM NOTES
- The opening reception is on Sunday, June 7 at 5.30 p.m. Evening events begin at 6.30 p.m. Private conferences are scheduled on an individual basis.
- This program is available on a continuing education basis or for four undergraduate credits, but not both.
Registration for this program is by admission only, and enrollment is limited to 12 per area of concentration. Candidates are selected by visiting writers on the basis of a 10-page manuscript.
Your application should consist of a short letter indicating which workshop you are applying to, why you wish to participate, and what prior experience you bring to the workshop. In addition, please submit a ten-page writing sample. Be sure your name appears on all pages of the sample.
Application deadline is April 24, 2009.
Related Subject Areas: Writing, Creative Writing, Summer Intensives
Website registration is not available for this course. Please call (212) 998-7171 for more information on how to enroll.
Course Materials
Section 1
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:30am-5:00pm
June 8 - June 19
10 Sessions
Location:
