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The Writer's Bookshelf
As a directory of phone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses, & fax numbers, the Guide puts writers in touch with one another. The Guide is an indispensable resource for writers, teachers, arts administrators, & all professionals in the field of literature. The Guide is just $28.45, including shipping & handling The Guide is published by AWP in cooperation with Dustbooks. Sample Program Listings Each edition of the Guide has two sections of listings: one for degree-conferring academic programs, & one for writers' conferences & festivals. The following examples are from the Ninth Edition. University of Notre Dame Degree offered: MFA Type of Program: Studio/Academic Required course of study: 36 s/hrs; Thesis: required; Writing Workshops: 12 s/hrs; Literature Courses: 12 s/hrs; Tutorials: 12 s/hrs. Application Deadline: February 1. The program in creative writing at the University of Notre Dame is relatively new, but it is built on a long-st&ing tradition within an English Department with a distinguished history in creative writing, its teachers over the years preparing young writers-to-be from Edwin O'Connor (class of '36) to Barry Lopez (class of '66) to Michael Collins (class of '87), the recipient of the 1988 Young Writer of the Year Award in the Republic of Irel&. The Space Between, an anthology of Notre Dame poetry edited by James Walton, includes work by nineteen well-known poets associated with the university from 1950 to the present, including Ernest S&een, John Fredrick Nims, Henry Rago, Anthony Kerrigan, John Logan, Paul Carroll, Samuel Hazo, John Engels, & Michael Ryan. Notre Dame's program aims to be small & selective, with the expectation that students will work closely with the creative writing faculty on a thesis project that consists of a volume of the student's work, usually a novel, a collection of short stories, a volume of poetry, or a work of literary nonfiction. The Notre Dame Review, our new national literary magazine, has positions for graduate students as Editorial Assistants, as well as Managing Editor. The program also sponsors, along with the University of Notre Dame Press, the S&een/Sullivan prizes, a second book (or later) rotating short story & poetry volume competition. The full-time writing faculty includes poet & novelist Sonia Gernes (The Mutes of Sleepy Eye, Brief Lives, The Way to St. Ives), poet & translator John Matthias (Bucyrus, Turns, The Battle of Kosovo, & Contemporary Swedish Poetry), novelist William O'Rourke (The Meekness of Isaac, Idle H&s, & Criminal Tendencies), novelist Valerie Sayers (Due East, How I Got Him Back, & The Distance Between Us), & novelist James Walton (Margaret's Book). Visiting writers have been coming to Notre Dame since 1968 in the context of The Sophomore Literary Festival, a week of readings, workshops, & related events. These authors include Normal Mailer, Joseph Heller, Ralph Ellison, John Barth, Robert Duncan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Denise Levertov, Margaret Atwood, Czeslaw Milosz, John Irving, Mary Gordon, Seamus Heaney, Marge Piercy, Susan Sontag, & Derek Walcott. The Creative Writing Program offers full tuition scholarships & a limited number of fellowships. For applications or further information, write or call: The Director of Creative Writing, Dept. of English. University of Evansville Degree offered: BA, BFA Degree: BA in Creative Writing (poetry, fiction, & screenwriting) Required course of study: 124 s/hrs total; Survey of English language: 3 s/hrs, Creative writing courses: minimum 21 s/hrs, Literature courses: minimum 15 s/hrs Other Requirements: University general education requirements Application Deadlines: March 1 for financial aid; May 1 for admissions. The BA in Creative Writing gives the student exposure to both poetry & fiction writing but allows emphasis in either genre as well as screenwriting. It begins with Introduction to Imaginative Writing & continues with courses in poetry & fiction writing at both introductory & advanced levels; workshops, one-on-one projects, & internships are available to upper-level students. An annual university writing contest with generous cash prizes is sponsored by the department; best contest entries are published in On Time, a student edited journal. The Pendulum, a student association-sponsored literary & art magazine, also publishes student work. The Formalist, an international poetry journal, is edited & published by Dr. William Baer, a member of the writing faculty. Although the journal generally publishes submissions by recognized poets such as Mona Van Duyn, Donald Justice, Richard Wilbur, & John Updike, some students do get their poems in The Formalist as well. Degree: BFA in Creative Writing (poetry, fiction, & screenwriting) Required course of study: 124 s/hrs total; Creative Writing: 40 s/hrs (recommended); Literature courses: 20 s/hrs (recommended); Total in writing & literature: 60 s/hrs (required). Other requirements: University general education requirements. Application Deadlines: March 1 for financial aid, May 1 for admissions. The BFA in Creative Writing is very selective; it is designed with only those in mind who are likely to be accepted into the top creative writing program graduate programs in the country. The selection committee will look at freshman applications but prefers to observe students in writing classes before recommending them for the program. Decisions are based on grades, test scores, portfolios of writing, & assessment of general overall promise as quality writers. Students may be admitted to the program up to the end of sophomore year. In addition to regular creative writing & literature faculty, visiting writers-in-residence & guest writers offer supplementary workshops & individual critiques as well as readings. In recent years these have included Galway Kinnell, Jerome Lawrence, William Stafford, Phillip Levine, Julia Kasdorf, Phillip Lopate, Dave Smith, Bruce Weigl, Nancy Willard, Al Young, & Molly Peacock. For more information, contact, Chairman, Dept. of English. Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Length of Residency: Five days per session. Three to five sessions are held, generally in sequential order, sometimes concurrently. When: June. Application Deadline: April 15. Cost: Varies, from $150 to $350 per person. Description: Five three-hour classes of ten to twelve competitively selected student writers are conducted by well-known writers. The week of classes generally concludes with a public reading by the class at the Guadalupe Book Shop. Applicants should submit a ten-page writing sample in the discipline of their choice between January 1 & April 15. Submissions are judged blind by the instructor/writer. Notification of acceptance/rejection is made by May 5. Housing is at student expense. Several downtown B&Bs can be suggested in the $50 to $75 range. Faculty: Sandra Cisneros is the only regularly scheduled instructor. Past instructors have included: Joy Harjo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rolando Hinojosa, Bryce Milligan, Pat Mora, Naomi Shihab Nye, Virgil Suarez, & others. Financial Assistance: Scholarships (reduced tuition) are given on the basis of need. Inquire by letter or phone after acceptance. Contact: Bryce Milligan, Literature Program Director
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