R162. Creative Composition: Incorporating Creative Writing into College Composition

Redwood Room, Sheraton Seattle, 2nd Floor
Thursday, February 27, 2014
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

Creative writing graduate students often teach first-year composition, usually with little experience or formal training, but are there aspects of our creative training that suit teaching expository writing? Is good writing just good writing? This panel will address essential questions such as can creative writing students be effective writing teachers (hint, yes we can), and how can we incorporate our skills into the curriculum to address matters of social justice and identity in creative ways.


Participants

Moderator:

Robby Nadler is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia. He also holds degrees and fellowships from UCLA, University of Montana, University of Auckland, and Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and the 2010 Discovered Voice Award from the Iron Horse Literary Review.

Dan Rosenberg's first book, The Crushing Organ, won the 2011 American Poetry Journal Book Prize. His translation, with Boris Gregoric, of Miklavz Komelj's Hippodrome is forthcoming. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and UGA PhD student, he co-edits Transom.

Gale Marie Thompson is the author of Soldier On and the chapbooks Expeditions to the Polar Seas and If You're a Bear, I'm a Bear. She lives in Athens, Georgia, where she edits Jellyfish magazine and works at the Georgia Review.

Marni Ludwig is the author of Pinwheel and Little Box of Cotton and Lightning. She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Washington University in St. Louis.

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