R194. What's Next? Pressures and Opportunities in Undergraduate Writing Programs

Room 2A, Washington State Convention Center, Level 2
Thursday, February 27, 2014
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Undergraduate programs in creative writing develop student writers who will inevitably face a competitive future—in publishing and editing, MFA or other graduate programs, and the job market. Directors and faculty from various writing programs (U.S. and abroad) will discuss an array of curricular choices made in recent revisions to undergraduate writing programs. The conversation will cover traditional, online, and low residency options, describe choices and outcomes, and weigh the pros and cons of the most recent developments.


Participants

Moderator:

Audrey Colombe is an associate professor in the Department of English and Writing at University of Tampa. Her short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, and she is the fiction editor at Tampa Press.

Kathlene Postma directs the creative writing program for undergraduates at Pacific University, where she also teaches fiction writing. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Zyzzyva, Hawaii Review, Willlow Springs, and Green Mountains Review. She edits Silk Road Review.

Janet Sylvester’s books are, That Mulberry Wine and The Mark of Flesh. Her new book, Breakwater, is under consideration at a number of publishers. She directs the low-res BFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College in Vermont.

Abi Curtis is Head of Programme for Creative Writing at York St John University, York, United Kingdom. Her second poetry collection, The Glass Delusion, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2013.

Katharine Whitcomb

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