Come spend the summer studying with some of the prize-winning faculty of the Washington College English Department. Hone your craft in the art of personal narrative, develop your ear, and immerse yourself in literary tradition.
ENG 598. Writing our Lyric Truths: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Professor James Allen Hall
May 25-June 17, MTW 6-8:30 p.m. The Rose O’Neill Literary House
Memory has been called the ultimate mythmaker; still, the creative nonfiction writer must be dedicated to the act of delivering these myths in as true — and as beautiful — a way as possible. In this four-week-long class, we will explore the ways that metaphor, tone, point of view, and form can help us carry forth both truth and beauty. We will read examples by published writers like Jo Ann Beard, Julie Marie Wade, John D’Agata, and James Baldwin in order to expand and explode our notions of narrative structure, linguistic play, and genre convention. The workshop will be writing intensive and generative, meaning that it will focus on helping you write new work.
ENG 599. Poetic Form: A Creative Writing Workshop with Professor Dubrow
June 22-July 15, MTW 6-8:30 p.m. The Rose O’Neill Literary House
This creative writing workshop explores the rich literary tradition of received forms in American verse. By studying a wide range of formal poems—by writers like Elizabeth Bishop, Natasha Trethewey, and Marilyn Hacker, among others—students will discover the adaptability of forms like the sonnet, villanelle, and sestina. Participants will produce a series of poems in received and fixed forms.
For more information, or to enroll in or audit these courses, please contact Professor Rich De Prospo: [email protected]
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