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Paul McGhee Division & The Humanities Arts and Writing Programs The School of Continuing and Professional Studies New York University
Summer Intensive Workshop - Application Cover Sheet Dates of Program: June 7, 2009 – June 19, 2009 Deadline: April 19, 2009
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Check One: Undergraduate Credit Non-Credit
Check One: Fiction Poetry Non-Fiction
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Mail Applications To: Professor Ruth Danon New York University – School of Continuing & Professional Studies Paul McGhee Division 726 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY 10003 New York UniversityA private university in the public service
School of Continuing and Professional Studies Paul McGhee Division726 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY 10003 Tel: (212) 992.8720 Fax: (212) 995-4666
Paul McGhee Division & The Humanities Arts and Writing Programs The School of Continuing and Professional StudiesNew York University
Summer Intensive Writing Workshop Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Non-Fiction June 7, 2009 – June 19, 2009
Information & Application Instructions
Credit and non-credit students invited to apply
Application Deadline: April 19, 2009
INTENSIVE PROGRAM IN CREATIVE WRITING
Become a member of a selective writers’ community this summer. This intensive two-week program is designed for poets, fiction writers, and non-fiction writers who wish to develop their process and refine their craft in one of these areas. During the ten-day period you will spend six mornings in improvisation workshops taught by McGhee faculty. These workshops will help you find new ways of generating and revising text. Six afternoons are reserved for craft workshops in either poetry or prose taught by the Distinguished Visiting Writers. This summer, Meena Alexander is the invited poet; Percival Everett the invited fiction writer; and Honor Moore the invited non-fiction writer. During one of the six sessions you will have the opportunity to work with a writer in a genre other than your own. In addition, you will have at least one private conference with the craft workshop teacher in your area of concentration. In the evenings you will attend readings, lectures, and social events.
Faculty
Honor Moore (nonfiction) is the author of The Bishop’s Daughter (2008), a memoir, to be published in paperback in May, 2009 by W.W. Norton, simultaneously with a reissue of her 1969 biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margaret Sargent by Her Granddaughter, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1996. Ms. Moore is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir. 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 fifteen novels, three collections of short fiction, and one volume of poetry. He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (for his 1996 story collection, Big Picture) and a New American Writing Award (for his 1990 novel, Zulus). He teaches fiction writing, American Studies and critical theory at the University of Southern California.
Meena Alexander (poetry) was born in Allahabad, India in 1951. She was raised in both India and the Sudan, in North Africa. Alexander’s collections of poetry include Quickly Changing River (TriQuarterly Books, 2008), Raw Silk (2004), and Illiterate Heart (2002), the winner of a 2002 PEN Open Book Award. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Ruth Danon (improvisation workshop teacher) is Master Teacher of Creative and Expository Writing at the McGhee Division of New York University and Founder and Director of their Creative Writing Program and the Summer Intensive Writing Workshops. A poet and nonfiction writer, she is the author of Triangulation From A Known Point, and has had poems and essays published in Noon, Barrow Street Moria, The New Hampshire Review, Crayon, Fence, 3rd Bed, BOMB, The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New England Review, and many other places. Her work appeared in Best American Poetry 2002, edited by Robert Creeley.
April Krassner (improvisation workshop teacher) is Master Teacher of Developmental Writing at the McGhee Division of New York University, where she teaches both expository and creative writing classes. In 2005 she was honored with the Outstanding Service Award. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. A poet, her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Iconoclast, Zing and numerous other publications.
Catherine Barnett (improvisation workshop teacher) is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2004 Whiting Writers’ Award, the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. Her first book of poems, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won the Beatrice Hawley Award and was published in spring 2004 by Alice James Books. Her poems have been published in Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Washington Post, Barrow Street, Shenandoah, The Massachusetts Review, and The Iowa Review. She works as an independent editor and teaches at Barnard, the New School, and NYU, where she was honored with an Outstanding Service Award
Who Should Register
Students must apply for admission to the program. A maximum of twelve poets, twelve fiction writers, and twelve non-fiction writers will be chosen to participate. Students may apply on a credit or non-credit basis. Students should have had some prior course work in poetry or prose. Students taking the course for credit will be asked to submit additional written materials later in the summer.
Application Instructions
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. For more information, please contact Yvonne Alexander at (212) 992-8720.
Applications should be sent to Ruth Danon, Master Teacher of Creative and Expository Writing, McGhee Division of New York University, 726 Broadway – 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003.
Schedule
The program will run from June 7, 2009 to June 19, 2009. The opening reception will be held Sunday evening, June 7, 2009. Classes meet Monday through Friday. Morning workshops are held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and afternoon craft workshops from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Evening events begin at 6:30 p.m. Conferences will be scheduled on an individual basis.
Tuition
The total noncredit tuition is $2,835.00. The cost excludes transportation, housing, and meals. Students taking the course for credit pay the regular fee for a 4-credit course in the McGhee Division of New York University. |