S198. Lead From the Front: Best Practices for Working With Veterans in the Writing Classroom
Saturday, March 1, 2014
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
As 2.5 million American men and women return from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, some of them will wind up in your writing classroom. Are you prepared to publish an essay in which the author admits he misses the thrill of killing the enemy? How will you deal with a young writer who expresses suicidal thoughts in a creative writing class? The panelists, two of whom are veterans, are part of a three year university seminar asking and answering these types of questions and more.
Participants
Moderator:
Derek Malone-France is executive director of the University Writing Program and associate professor of Writing and of Religion at the George Washington University. His latest book is Faith, Fallibility, and the Virtue of Anxiety: An Essay in Religion and Political Liberalism.
D. Alexis Hart is director of College Writing at Allegheny College.
Ron Capps is the founder and director of the Veterans Writing Project, a 501(c)(3) based in Washington, DC. He is the author of Writing War: A Guide to Telling Your Own Story. Seriously Not All Right: A Memoir of Service in Five Wars, PTSD and Recovery, will be published in Spring 2014.
