- Learn the craft of transforming life experiences into literary narratives.
- Experiment with memories in playful ways to make visible what has been lurking beneath the surface.
- Discover ways to speculate on what we don’t know and don’t remember, and explore these uncertainties through storytelling.
- Reflect while daydreaming about our identities through language and questioning.
- This workshop will culminate in a public reading of student work.
Undergraduate: ENGLISH 422, 3 units
Graduate: ENGLISH 622, 3 units
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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 should apply. 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.
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Send the materials listed in Step One with your completed Registration Form to the
Summer Arts Registration Office by
May 3, 2010.
The deadline to apply for this course has passed.
Professor Doug Rice
rice@saclink.csus.edu
916-278-5435
Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn’s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether (Graywolf, 2000), and Blind Huber (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays, and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, The Paris Review, National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” and The New York Times Book Review. His film credits include “field poet” and artistic collaborator on the film Darwin’s Nightmare, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. One semester each year he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year elsewhere.
Check out his website at www.nickflynn.org.
Nick Flynn’s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether (Graywolf, 2000), and Blind Huber (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays, and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, The Paris Review, National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” and The New York Times Book Review. His film credits include “field poet” and artistic collaborator on the film Darwin’s Nightmare, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. One semester each year he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year elsewhere.
Check out his website at www.nickflynn.org.
Leslie Heywood
Leslie Heywood is a professor of Creative Writing and English at Binghamton University. Her books include Natural Selection: Poems; The Proving Grounds: Poems; Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon; Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir; Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture; Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Bodybuilding, and two edited collections on third wave feminism.
Check out her website at www.leslieheywood.com
Leslie Heywood is a professor of Creative Writing and English at Binghamton University. Her books include Natural Selection: Poems; The Proving Grounds: Poems; Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon; Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir; Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture; Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Bodybuilding, and two edited collections on third wave feminism.
Check out her website at www.leslieheywood.com
Steven Church
Steven Church is the author of the hybrid memoir, The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst (Soft Skull, 2010), Theoretical Killings: Essays and Accidents (UNO Press, Fall 2009) and The Guinness Book of Me: a Memoir of Record, a book recently optioned for television by Lionsgate Studios and Fox Television. His work has been published widely and his essay, I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part, (Fourth Genre) was named a Notable Essay in the 2008 Best American Essays. He teaches nonfiction and literature in the MFA program at Fresno State and for the Low-Residency MFA at the University of New Orleans, and is a founding editor of the literary magazine, The Normal School.
Check out his website at www.thenormalschool.com.
Steven Church is the author of the hybrid memoir, The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst (Soft Skull, 2010), Theoretical Killings: Essays and Accidents (UNO Press, Fall 2009) and The Guinness Book of Me: a Memoir of Record, a book recently optioned for television by Lionsgate Studios and Fox Television. His work has been published widely and his essay, I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part, (Fourth Genre) was named a Notable Essay in the 2008 Best American Essays. He teaches nonfiction and literature in the MFA program at Fresno State and for the Low-Residency MFA at the University of New Orleans, and is a founding editor of the literary magazine, The Normal School.
Check out his website at www.thenormalschool.com.
