S197. CANCELLED: Fake News and Hard Truths: Teaching Students Creative Research Approaches

Status: Not Accepted

Room 214A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm

 

In this post-fact era, students tend to avoid research in their creative work, viewing it as suspect or thwarting self-expression. Yet, research invigorates a piece of creative writing and is one of the most powerful tools for making positive change. This panel will offer vetted research exercises for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction students. Moving beyond secondary methods, panelists will discuss immersive research, social action research, and document collage.


Participants

Moderator:

Charlotte Pence is the author of Many Small Fires, which received a Foreword's Book of the Year award. She is also editor of The Poetics of American Song Lyrics and director of University of South Alabama's creative writing program and the Stokes Center for Creative Writing.

Kwoya Fagin Maples is a poet and creative writing instructor at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow. Her book Mend is a collection of historical persona poetry and was finalist for the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.

Andrew Malan Milward is the author of The Agriculture Hall of Fame and I Was a Revolutionary. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Ander Monson

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