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Faculty News:
Natasha Trethewey has been appointed to a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/06/upress_trethewey_laureate_reappointment/campus.html
SPECIAL TOPICS COURSE FOR FALL 2013
ENGCW 379W 00P
THE ART OF MEMOIR: WHEN WRITING FROM LIFE BECOMES REAL
Instructor: Lynna Williams
2:30-5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays
This is a permission-only class. Please come to the Creative Writing Program office in N209 Callaway to fill out an application form. No writing sample required. No pre-requisite.
Course Description
Memoir derives its energy, its narrative drive, from an exploration of the past. In this workshop, students will mine their own pasts, shaping their personal experiences into compelling essays that explore what it is take something as particular as childhood and family and shape it into something that speaks to a larger human experience. The question of what material to use in what genre—what makes something good material for an essay as opposed to fiction?—will be explored, as well as the uses of fictional techniques—scene, dialogue and characterization among them—in nonfiction. Students will write and revise about 60 pages of memoir, and read some exciting examples of the genre, but the primary focus of the class will be student work.
Creative Writing Program Fall 2013 Course Atlas now ONLINE
Creative Writing Program Fall 2013 course application
List of Accepted Students - Fall 2013
Paul Simon events at Emory postponed
The highly anticipated Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature by Paul Simon,
set for Feb. 10-12 at Emory University, have been postponed due to illness. Simon's representatives report
he has the flu. Emory anticipates being able to reschedule the lectures at a later time, to be announced.
People interested in attending the Ellmann Lectures will have to re-register for complimentary tickets
when the new dates are announced. Owing to scheduling uncertainties at this time, existing tickets
will not be honored for the new dates.
The latest information and updates will be available at: http://www.emory.edu/ellmann
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USA TODAY names Emory the number one school for "budding writers"!
1. Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia): Ask anyone for the best schools for writers, and Emory will inevitably emerge. With a plethora of outstanding minds flocking to and from Emory every year (be it guest lecturers, students, or alumni), it is no wonder why Emory would be a prime place for a budding writer. Emory offers extraordinary flexibility to its students; the only required course of all English majors is Poetry. E Students looking for more personal settings with professors will be happy to find that most English classes cap at 15 students, while the largest cap at 25.
http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/the-10-best-american-colleges-for-writers
The Creative Writing Program is now on iTunes University
Readings by Ha Jin, Edmund White, Tayari Jones, Percival Everett,
Laleh Khadivi and Bruce CoveyGo to http://itunes.emory.edu/
Click on Emory on iTunes U
Select the topic (on left): Academics and Research
Click on the Creative Writing Program: Readings folder
Watch Emory Creative Writing Program events in streaming video at:
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at creativewriting@emory.edu or 404-727-4683