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Learn the craft of transforming life experiences into literary
narratives.
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Experiment with memory in playful ways to make visible what has been
lurking beneath the surface.
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Discover ways to speculate on what we don`t know and don't remember as
much as on what we think we have come to know.
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Reflect while daydreaming on the desires and events of your life.
- Explore your identity through language and questioning.
All writers (memoirists, fiction writers, poets) interested in writing stories from their own lives and interested in learning the craft of writing memoir and the elements of revision. Students seeking imaginative ways for writing their memories by combining other disciplines (such as photography) are especially encouraged to apply.
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Submit a letter of interest and three to five pages of recent writing.
- Send the materials listed in Step One and your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts Registration Office by Monday, June 2, 2008.
Professor Doug Rice
CSU Sacramento
rice@saclink.csus.edu
916-278-5989
Undergraduate: Undergraduate: ENGLISH 422, 3 units
Graduate: ENGLISH 622, 3 units
Materials fee: $15
William T. Vollmann
Author of Fathers and Crows, Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs, and nearly 50 other works of fiction, politics, photography, and nonfiction. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Europe Central, and was nominated for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Rising Up and Rising Down. His other books include: The Atlas, Argall, Butterfly Stories, and The Royal Family. He has written for Harper's, Spin Magazine, Esquire , The New Yorker, Gear, Granta, and sometimes contributes to The New York Times Book Review, among other publications.
Author of Fathers and Crows, Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs, and nearly 50 other works of fiction, politics, photography, and nonfiction. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Europe Central, and was nominated for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Rising Up and Rising Down. His other books include: The Atlas, Argall, Butterfly Stories, and The Royal Family. He has written for Harper's, Spin Magazine, Esquire , The New Yorker, Gear, Granta, and sometimes contributes to The New York Times Book Review, among other publications.
Carole Maso
Award-winning author of Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, AVA, Defiance, Aureole (a book of short fictions), Break Every Rule (essays), The Room Lit by Roses (a journal of pregnancy and birth), and Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo. She is the recipient of many awards, including a Lannan Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant, 1988; National Endowment for the Arts Emerging Artist Reading Grant, 1987; New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1987; and the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, 1985. Professor Maso teaches at Brown University. (www.brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/biomaso.htm)
Award-winning author of Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, AVA, Defiance, Aureole (a book of short fictions), Break Every Rule (essays), The Room Lit by Roses (a journal of pregnancy and birth), and Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo. She is the recipient of many awards, including a Lannan Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant, 1988; National Endowment for the Arts Emerging Artist Reading Grant, 1987; New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1987; and the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, 1985. Professor Maso teaches at Brown University. (www.brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/biomaso.htm)
Steven Church
His essays and stories have been published or are forthcoming in the Colorado Review, The North American Review, Interim, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Post Road, Quarterly West, and others. His work has been thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His first book, The Guinness Book of Me: a Memoir of Record, was released in 2005 by Simon & Schuster. Born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, Professor Church earned his BA in philosophy at the University of Kansas and his MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. He has also worked as a fry cook, a tour guide, a Bobcat operator, a maintenance man, a housepainter, a barista, a conflict mediator, an academic adviser, a teacher.
His essays and stories have been published or are forthcoming in the Colorado Review, The North American Review, Interim, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Post Road, Quarterly West, and others. His work has been thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His first book, The Guinness Book of Me: a Memoir of Record, was released in 2005 by Simon & Schuster. Born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, Professor Church earned his BA in philosophy at the University of Kansas and his MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. He has also worked as a fry cook, a tour guide, a Bobcat operator, a maintenance man, a housepainter, a barista, a conflict mediator, an academic adviser, a teacher.
