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The subject of this course is a sort of re-discovering of place through writing, a way to journey home with a new way of seeing home through writing.
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Students will work on the craft of creating narratives that explore place through fiction, poetry, and memoir.
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Write in a variety of genres as a way of re-discovering your sense of place.
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Explore, through keen observation, the aesthetic and spiritual possibilities embedded in writing about place.
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Cultivate your senses in order to find the details and truths that give their written words power and authenticity.
- This workshop will culminate in a public performance of students reading from their work.
Undergraduate: ENGLISH 422, 3 units
Graduate: ENGLISH 622, 3 units
$15
All writers (of memoir, fiction, poetry, and drama) interested in writing narrative that explore place—our homes real and imagined places that have fascinated us. This workshop is open to writers on a variety of levels from the intermediate to the advanced, who are passionate about finding new ways to write and explore ideas about place.
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Submit a letter of interest and three to five pages of recent writing (poetry, memoir, or fiction).
- Send the materials listed in Step 1 with your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts Registration Office by Friday, May 15, 2009. THE DEADLINE TO APPLY TO THIS COURSE HAS PASSED.
Professor Doug Rice
drice@csus.edu
916-384-5491
Rebecca Brown
Rebecca Brown’s thirteenth book is a collection of gonzo essays called American Romances. Her other titles include The Last Time I Saw You, The End of Youth, The Dogs, The Terrible Girls, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, and The Gifts of the Body. A frequent collaborator, she has written numerous texts for dance; a play, The Toaster; and Woman in Ill Fitting Wig, a book length collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer. Her work has been translated into Japanese, German, Italian, Norwegian and Dutch. She recently co-edited, with Mary Jane Knecht, Looking Together, an anthology of writers’ responses to work at the Frye Art Museum. She lives in Seattle and teaches at the low residency MFA program at Goddard College in Vermont and elsewhere.
Rebecca Brown’s thirteenth book is a collection of gonzo essays called American Romances. Her other titles include The Last Time I Saw You, The End of Youth, The Dogs, The Terrible Girls, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, and The Gifts of the Body. A frequent collaborator, she has written numerous texts for dance; a play, The Toaster; and Woman in Ill Fitting Wig, a book length collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer. Her work has been translated into Japanese, German, Italian, Norwegian and Dutch. She recently co-edited, with Mary Jane Knecht, Looking Together, an anthology of writers’ responses to work at the Frye Art Museum. She lives in Seattle and teaches at the low residency MFA program at Goddard College in Vermont and elsewhere.
Robert Glück
Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including the two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist, a book of poems and short prose, Reader (1989), and a collection of stories, Denny Smith (2004). He lives in San Francisco and teaches at San Francisco State University, where he is an editor of the online journal Narrativity. In 2005, Coach House Press published Biting the Error: Writers on Narrative, an anthology edited by Mr. Glück, Camille Roy, Mary Berger, and Gail Scott.
Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including the two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist, a book of poems and short prose, Reader (1989), and a collection of stories, Denny Smith (2004). He lives in San Francisco and teaches at San Francisco State University, where he is an editor of the online journal Narrativity. In 2005, Coach House Press published Biting the Error: Writers on Narrative, an anthology edited by Mr. Glück, Camille Roy, Mary Berger, and Gail Scott.
Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen is author of nine novels, one hypertext, four critical studies, four short-story collections, a poetry chapbook, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Fiction International, Iowa Review, Village Voice, Time Out, BOMB, Gulf Coast, McSweeney's, and Best American Non-Required Reading. Mr. Olsen is an N.E.A. fellowship and Pushcart prize recipient, and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His work has been translated into Italian, Polish, Turkish, and Finnish. Mr. Olsen serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two. Founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities. He is also Associate Editor at American Book Review, Fiction Editor at Western Humanities Review, and co-founder of Now What, a collective blog by alternative prose writers and publishers.
Check out his website at: www.lanceolsen.com
Lance Olsen is author of nine novels, one hypertext, four critical studies, four short-story collections, a poetry chapbook, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Fiction International, Iowa Review, Village Voice, Time Out, BOMB, Gulf Coast, McSweeney's, and Best American Non-Required Reading. Mr. Olsen is an N.E.A. fellowship and Pushcart prize recipient, and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His work has been translated into Italian, Polish, Turkish, and Finnish. Mr. Olsen serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two. Founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities. He is also Associate Editor at American Book Review, Fiction Editor at Western Humanities Review, and co-founder of Now What, a collective blog by alternative prose writers and publishers.
Check out his website at: www.lanceolsen.com
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