Course Dates: June 26 to July 9, 2011
Application Deadline: May 2, 2011 - The deadline for this workshop has passed.

• Learn the craft of flash fiction.
• Explore sentences as moments of poetic wonder.
• Tease out the rhythmic joys of prose.
• Experiment with narrative and poetic forms.
• This workshop will culminate with a public reading by all students.

COURSE NUMBER/CREDITS
Undergraduate: ENGLISH 422, 3 units
Graduate: ENGLISH 622, 3 units


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All writers (fiction writers, poets, playwrights, memoirists) interested in experimenting in playful ways with short-short narrative forms and desires are encouraged to apply. Students who enjoy playing with language, who enjoy the breath of a word, the sound and feel of a word inside a sentence. Writers who blend poetry with prose. Writers who long to tell stories in small forms. Writers who want to learn how to narrate the whole of a story in a tiny moment of time and space. Writers fascinated by how the poetic intersects with the prosaic, adding a new dimension to the flash fiction form.

1. Submit a letter of interest and three to five pages of recent writing.
2. Send the materials listed in step one with your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts office by May 2, 2011 - The deadline has been extended. Contact the Course Coordinator for details..

Professor Doug Rice
rice@csus.edu
916-278-5435


Sharon Doubiago      www.sharondoubiago.com
Sharon Doubiago’s memoir, My Father’s Love/Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl, Volume One, was a finalist in the Northern California Book Awards in Creative Non Fiction. Volume Two is forthcoming. Love on the Streets, Selected and New Poems received the Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poet Award and was a finalist in the Paterson Poetry Prize. She has written two dozen books of poetry and prose, most notably the epic poem Hard Country, the book-length poem South America Mi Hija, which was nominated twice for the National Book Award, and the story collections, El Nińo and The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes which was selected to the Oregon Culture Heritage list. She holds three Pushcart Prizes for poetry and fiction, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and a California Arts Council Award.

Peter Grandbois      www.brothersgrandbois.com
Peter Grandbois is the author of the novel The Gravedigger, a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” and Borders “Original Voices” selection; The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir, chosen as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by the Sacramento News & Review; and the forthcoming novel, Nahoonkara. He is also the PEN nominated translator of San Juan: Memoir of a City. His short stories have appeared in many journals, including: Boulevard, The Mississippi Review, Post Road, New Orleans Review, The Denver Quarterly, and Gargoyle. He is a professor of creative writing and contemporary literature at Denison University.

Renee Gladman
Renee Gladman is the author of one collection of poetry, A Picture-Feeling, and four works of prose, Juice, The Activist, Newcomer Can't Swim, and most recently Toaf. She is the publisher at Leon Works, a press for experimental prose and other thought projects based in the sentence, and teaches at Brown University.

Anna Joy Springer
Anna Joy Springer is the author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love: A Fabulist Memoir, and The Birdwisher. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including ArtXX: Women in Art; Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About A Changing Industry; Chills, Pills, Thrills, Heartache: Adventures In The First Person; and Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing. She teaches and writes graphic texts (including sculptural poetry, intermedia installations, digital literatures, and comics), punk rock, feminist ethics, non-traditional literary structures, and radical literary arts pedagogies at UC San Diego.