| creative writing classes pittsburgh: The Madwoman in the Attic Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, 2020-03-17 Called a feminist classic by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Very Bad People Kit Frick, 2023-04-04 Sixteen-year-old Calliope Bolan joins a powerful secret society at her new boarding school, hoping to find answers about her mother's death, but she becomes involved in a dangerous campaign for revenge that threatens her new friendships. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Horsepower Joy Priest, 2020-09-22 Priest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self—a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, Kentucky’s world-famous horseracing track—before arriving in a state of self-awareness to confront the personal and political landscape of a harshly segregated Louisville. Out of a space that is at once southern and urban, violent and beautiful, racially-charged and working-class, she attempts to transcend her social and economic circumstances. Across the collection, Priest writes a horse that acts as a metaphysical engine of flight, showing us how to throw off the harness and sustain wildness. Unlike the traditional Bildungsroman, Priest presents a non-linear narrative in which the speaker lacks the freedom to come of age naively in the urban South, and must instead, from the beginning, possess the wisdom of “the horses & their restless minds.” |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Writing Fiction Gotham Writers' Workshop, 2008 Language, literature and biography. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity Angela Velez, 2022-02-08 Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this Latinx road trip adventure—a big-hearted, voice-driven YA about two sisters who couldn’t be more different, but become begrudging partners on their school’s cross-country college trip—from debut author Angela Velez. Perfect for fans of Lilliam Rivera, Jenny Han, and Sandhya Menon. Overachiever Luz “Lulu” Zavala has straight As, perfect attendance, and a solid ten-year plan. First up: nail her interview for a dream internship at Stanford, the last stop on her school’s cross-country college road trip. The only flaw in her plan is Clara, her oldest sister, who went off to college and sparked a massive fight with their overprotective Peruvian mom, who is now convinced that out-of-state-college will destroy their family. If Lulu can’t fix whatever went wrong between them, the whole trip—and her future—will be a waste. Middle sister Milagro wants nothing to do with college or a nerdy class field trip. Then a spot opens up on the trip just as her own spring break plans (Operation Don’t Die a Virgin) are thwarted, and she hops on the bus with her glittery lipsticks, more concerned about getting back at her ex than she is about schools or any family drama. But the trip opens her eyes about possibilities she’d never imagined for herself. Maybe she is more than the boy-crazy girl everyone seems to think she is. On a journey from Baltimore all the way to San Francisco, Lulu and Milagro will become begrudging partners as they unpack weighty family expectations, uncover Clara’s secrets, and maybe even discover the true meaning of sisterhood. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Nothing Fatal Sarah Perrier, 2010 What happens when love is replaced by romance? In Nothing Fatal, Sarah Perrier presents us with a variety of answers to this question. Wise, sly, sexy, and sad, Perrier's poems not only court the reader, but flirt with each other, resulting in a collection that rejoices in, and even reconfigures, the notion of modern love. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: The Depression Mathias Svalina, Jon Pack, 2020-02-17 A dream-like collaboration of fables and photographs, and a surreal and shifting deep-dive into clinical depression, THE DEPRESSION absurdly expresses the mind and life as we both know it and don't. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Hard Times Vasily Sleptsov, 2016-11-04 Translated by Michael R. Katz Vasily Sleptsov was a Russian social activist and writer during the politically charged 1860s, known as the era of great reforms, and marked by Alexander II's emancipation of the serfs and the relaxation of censorship. Popular in his day, Sleptsov's contemporaries Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov praised his writing: Chekhov once remarked, Sleptsov taught me, better than most, to understand the Russian intelligent, and my own self as well. The novella Hard Times is considered Sleptsov's most important work. It focused popular attention on the radical and liberal movements through its fictional setting, where the characters contend with constantly evolving political and social dilemmas. Hard Times was immediately recognized as a vibrant and compelling depiction of pre-revolutionary Russian intellectual society, full of lively debates about the possibilities of liberal reform or radical revolution that questioned the viability of a political system facing massive social problems. This is the first English language version of Hard Times, expertly and fluidly translated by Michael Katz. Highly readable, it provides important historical insights on the political and social climate of a volatile and transformative period in Russia history. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: The Architect of Flowers William Lychack, 2011-03-23 The stories in William Lychack’s dazzling new collection, The Architect of Flowers, explore the dear and inevitable distance between people in loving relationships and find hope in dark situations. With tiny, precise details, Lychack observes the overlooked moments of everyday life—the small failings between parents and children, the long-held secrets in married life. A small-town policeman brings himself to shoot a family’s injured dog; an old woman secretly trains a crow to steal for her; a hybridizer’s wife discovers the perfect lie to bring her family magically together again. Lychack’s characters yearn to re-enchant the world, to turn the ordinary and profane into the sacred and beautiful again, to make beauty serve as an antidote to grief. From ghostwriter to ghost runners to ghosts in a chapel, these stories are extraordinary portraits of life’s tender humiliations as well as its sharp, rude jolts. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Listen, Lucy Jordan Corcoran, 2015-09-18 ListenLucy.org is a place to express yourself-freely, creatively, anonymously-to find comfort in seeing that you are not alone. This anonymous online outlet promotes health, happiness, positivity and acceptance. With no limitations and no editing, Listen, Lucy gives an unfiltered glimpse of what people are going through every day. This book features the stories of Listen, Lucy and will help the reader understand others and learn about themselves at the same time. This book, these stories and this movement show that we are really all in this together. In the end, none of us want to feel alone. All of us want to be heard. Everyone has a story. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Don't Read the Comments Eric Smith, 2020-01-28 Wonderfully geeky and deeply compassionate. —Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times bestselling author In this charming novel by Eric Smith, two teen gamers find their virtual worlds—and blossoming romance—invaded by the real-world issues of trolling and doxing in the gaming community. We all need a place to escape the real world. For Divya and Aaron, it’s the world of online gaming. While Divya trades her rising-star status for sponsorships to help her struggling single mom pay rent, Aaron plays as a way to fuel his own dreams of becoming a game developer—and as a way to disappear when his mom starts talking about medical school. After a chance online meeting, the pair decides to team up. But they soon find themselves the targets of a group of internet trolls, who begin launching a real-world doxxing campaign, threatening Aaron’s dream and Divya’s actual life. They think they can drive her out of the game, but Divya’s whole world is on the line… And she isn’t going down without a fight. Looking for more from Eric Smith? Don't miss You Can Go Your Own Way! |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Junkette Sarah Shotland, 2014-06-15 Junkette is the story of Claire Cunningham, a woman navigating disasters- natural and of her own making. Claire is a bartender in pre-Katrina New Orleans, a college graduate whose heroin addiction parallels the swirling fortunes of her sinking city. She knows she needs to get clean, but despite being smart enough to see all the angles, she can't quite find a way out. In Junkette, every bag of dope is a bag of sunshine, until it turns into a hurricane.. Everybody is a potential lover until the love is gone. Junkette is the kind of book that makes you happy to be sad because Shotland is beatific but not a beatnik, and she knows that living is a tragedy and love is hard-earned. I haven't read a book this wonderful since Barry Hannah dropped Ray on us all those years ago. Shotland hit my heart in the exact same way, with the exact same breath of awe. - Lori Jakiela, author of The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious New Orleans -mermaid city-is a drug for the protagonist of Junkette. Claire tends bar, hangs out with dealers, and is willing to die a little each day, all so she can stay inside the petal-dream of her adopted city. In the end she doesn't know where the city's moist air ends and her own skin begins. Junkette is a provocative, literate and magnolia-skinned first novel. - Maureen Gibbon, author of Swimming Sweet Arrow and Thief |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: The Great American Whatever Tim Federle, 2016-03-29 From the award-winning author of Five, Six, Seven, Nate! and Better Nate Than Ever comes “a Holden Caulfield for a new generation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before—before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and before the car accident that changed everything. Enter: Geoff, Quinn’s best friend who insists it’s time that Quinn came out—at least from hibernation. One haircut later, Geoff drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy—okay, a hot guy—and falls, hard. What follows is an upside-down week in which Quinn begins imagining his future as a screenplay that might actually have a happily-ever-after ending—if, that is, he can finally step back into the starring role of his own life story. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Writing Popular Fiction Dean Ray Koontz, 1973 Aspiring novelists are given advice on writing polishing, and marketing mysteries, suspense tales, Westerns, science fiction, and romances |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: The Writer's Journal Sheila Bender, 1997 Writers rarely share their unedited journals with others. On these most private of pages - or on odd scraps of paper - they jot down bits and pieces of their lives and thoughts. This unique anthology presents excerpts from the journals of forty of today's most noted writers, and editor Sheila Bender asked the authors to comment on the role of journal-keeping in creating their art. As a guide to creating a journal of your own, or simply as a riveting collection of never-before-published pieces from our finest contemporary talents. The Writer's Journal is a superb work - a classic on the creative process no serious reader, or writer, should miss.--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Reading Genesis Beth Kissileff, 2016-02-25 This anthology fills Genesis with meaning, gathering intellectuals and thinkers who use their professional knowledge to illuminate the Biblical text. The writers use insights from psychology, law, political science, literature, and other scholarly fields, to create an original constellation of modern Biblical readings, and receptions of Genesis. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: The Martin Chronicles John Fried, 2019-01-08 A powerful and heartfelt coming-of-age novel that follows Martin Kelso as he grows up in 1980s New York and faces the magic of first experiences, as well as the heartbreak of hard-won life lessons. Martin Kelso's comfortable world starts to change at the age of eleven. Girls get under his skin in ways he never noticed before. His cousin Evie, who used to be Marty's closest confidante--the one who taught him the right way to eat a pizza and how to catch tadpoles--has grown up into a stranger, mysterious and unpredictable. Marty and his best friends once inhabited fantasy worlds of their own making, full of cowboys and cops and robbers, where the heroes always won the day. But now, as neighborhood kids are attacked on their walk to school, they find themselves wanting to play a new game that better prepares them for real life. As life changes quickly and Marty feels less secure with himself, the difference between games and reality, friend and foe, and right from wrong becomes much more difficult to distinguish. At the same time, this new world offers possibilities as exciting as they are frightening. This poignant debut perfectly captures the intense emotion, humor, and earnestness of young adulthood as Marty, age eleven to seventeen, navigates a series of life-changing firsts: first kiss, first enemy, first loss, and, ultimately, his first awareness that the world is not as simple a place as he had once imagined. Includes a Reading Group Guide. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Hot with the Bad Things Lucia LoTempio, 2020-05-12 These poems take a closer look at violence against women, both physical and psychological. Follow the intersection of fear, identity, and the malleability of the speaker’s own experiences of violence enacted on her by men, particularly a past partner. Imagistic and evocative, the poems ask how are we conditioned into living with violence, and how do we move forward? |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Unruly Rhetorics Jonathan Alexander, Susan C. Jarratt, Nancy Welch, 2018-11-13 What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation? Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly. An introduction drawing on Jacques Rancière and Judith Butler explores the conditions under which civil discourse cannot adequately redress suffering or injustice. The essays offer analyses of “unruliness” in case studies from both twenty-first-century and historical sites of social-justice protest. The collection concludes with an afterword highlighting and inviting further exploration of the ethical, political, and pedagogical questions unruly rhetorics raise. Examining multiple modes of expression—embodied, print, digital, and sonic—Unruly Rhetorics points to the possibility that unruliness, more than just one of many rhetorical strategies within political activity, is constitutive of the political itself. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: The Naomi Letters Rachel Mennies, 2021-04-27 Epistolary love poems that chronicle a woman discovering bisexual desire, negotiating mental illness, and cultivating intimacy. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Flight of the Flamingo Sangeeta Mall, 2013 Preeta Dhingra, an editor at Pradhan Publishers, has a dead-end job editing cheap romantic fiction. Life changes when one day a submission lands on her desk, a compilation of stories by well-known women whose public lives shield the terrible trauma of marital infidelity. Anchoring this project is celebrity banker Sonia Vaswani, a financial powerhouse whose marriage of twenty years has ended in divorce. Now Sonia has chosen to go public with the facts and share her vulnerability with the whole world. Preeta, single mother of a physically challenged child prodigy, chooses to go ahead with the publication of the book in defiance of her boss's fiat against it. In doing so, she puts at risk her job, the trust of her friend, Sonia, and her relationship with Prakash Raghuraj, her mentor and close friend. Preeta's decision to publish the book is borne out of her desire to do some thing meaningful in life, something that she can be proud of even if it means sacrificing the opportunity to earn enough money to take her daughter to the US for treatment. In the process, she learns some things about her origins that she didn't know before, along with the ability to be at peace with what ever life chooses to throw her way. --Page [4] of cover. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Inheritance Taylor Johnson, 2020-11-10 Inheritance is a black sensorium, a chapel of color and sound that speaks to spaciousness, surveillance, identity, desire, and transcendence. Influenced by everyday moments of Washington, DC living, the poems live outside of the outside and beyond the language of categorical difference, inviting anyone listening to listen a bit closer. Inheritance is about the self’s struggle with definition and assumption. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Be with Me Always Randon Billings Noble, 2019-03-01 “Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!” Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in Wuthering Heights. He wants to be haunted—he insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of exorcising the ghosts of her past, she hopes for their cold hands to knock at the window and to linger. Be with Me Always is a collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of our pasts cling to us. In a way, all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have somehow embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted—by a near-death experience, the gaze of a nude model, thoughts of widowhood, Anne Boleyn’s violent death, a book she can’t stop reading, a past lover who shadows her thoughts—in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently evocative and unforgettable. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Constellation Route Matthew Olzmann, 2022-01-12 Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American society: the environment, race, love, grief, friendship, violence, and spirituality. The book is largely a metaphysical tribute to both the Post Office and the act of letter writing as a way to understand and create meaningful connections with the world at large. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Sadness Is a White Bird Moriel Rothman-Zecher, 2018-02-13 **A Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist** **A National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Debut Fiction** In this “nuanced, sharp, and beautifully written” (Michael Chabon) debut novel, a young man prepares to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close relationship to two Palestinian siblings with his deeply ingrained loyalties to family and country. The story begins in an Israeli military jail, where—four days after his nineteenth birthday—Jonathan stares up at the fluorescent lights of his cell and recalls the series of events that led him there. Two years earlier: Moving back to Israel after several years in Pennsylvania, Jonathan is ready to fight to preserve and defend the Jewish state. But he is also conflicted about the possibility of having to monitor the occupied Palestinian territories, a concern that grows deeper and more urgent when he meets Nimreen and Laith—the twin daughter and son of his mother’s friend. From that morning on, the three become inseparable: wandering the streets on weekends, piling onto buses toward new discoveries, laughing uncontrollably. They share joints on the beach, trading snippets of poems, intimate secrets, family histories, resentments, and dreams. But with his draft date rapidly approaching, Jonathan wrestles with the question of what it means to be proud of your heritage, while also feeling love for those outside of your own family. And then that fateful day arrives, the one that lands Jonathan in prison and changes his relationship with the twins forever. “Unflinching in its honesty, unyielding in its moral complexity” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author), Sadness Is a White Bird explores one man’s attempts to find a place for himself, discovering in the process a beautiful, against-the-odds love that flickers like a candle in the darkness of a never-ending conflict. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook Deb Perelman, 2012-10-30 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Celebrated food blogger and best-selling cookbook author Deb Perelman knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion—from salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe. “Innovative, creative, and effortlessly funny. —Cooking Light Deb Perelman loves to cook. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner—she’s never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions—and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You’ll get more than three million results. Where do you start? What if you pick a recipe that’s downright bad? With the same warmth, candor, and can-do spirit her award-winning blog, Smitten Kitchen, is known for, here Deb presents more than 100 recipes—almost entirely new, plus a few favorites from the site—that guarantee delicious results every time. Gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of her beautiful color photographs, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking. Here you’ll find better uses for your favorite vegetables: asparagus blanketing a pizza; ratatouille dressing up a sandwich; cauliflower masquerading as pesto. These are recipes you’ll bookmark and use so often they become your own, recipes you’ll slip to a friend who wants to impress her new in-laws, and recipes with simple ingredients that yield amazing results in a minimum amount of time. Deb tells you her favorite summer cocktail; how to lose your fear of cooking for a crowd; and the essential items you need for your own kitchen. From salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe Cake, Deb knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion. Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers! |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Animal You'll Surely Become Brittany Hailer, 2019 Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Memoir. A daughter's book, a book that exposes the unwitting hurt parents can inflict on their children, it makes sense that many pieces here are inspired by fairy tales. Imagine Red Riding Hood, a woman in her late twenties or early thirties now, or Gretel, also grown. This is just the kind of tale they would tell, these daughters with absent mothers and fathers who have experienced loss and betrayal. Just to set the record straight. Just to tell it like it really was, to make sure we hear their voice, their side of the story. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Just Pretend Tori Sharp, 2021-05-18 Fans of Real Friends and Be Prepared will love this energetic, affecting graphic memoir, in which a young girl uses her active imagination to navigate middle school as well as the fallout from her parents' divorce. Tori has never lived in just one world. Since her parents' divorce, she's lived in both her mom's house and her dad's new apartment. And in both places, no matter how hard she tries, her family still treats her like a little kid. Then there's school, where friendships old and new are starting to feel more and more out of her hands. Thankfully, she has books-and writing. And now the stories she makes up in her head just might save her when everything else around her—friendships, school, family—is falling apart. Author Tori Sharp takes us with her on a journey through the many commonplace but complex issues of fractured families, as well as the beautiful fantasy narrative that helps her cope, gorgeously illustrated and full of magic, fairies, witches and lost and found friendships. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Michael Chabon, 2011-12-20 The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Artists and Writers Colonies Gail Hellund Bowler, 1995 Describes places to stimulate your creativity for artists of all types. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Reconsidering Happiness Sherrie Flick, 2009-09-01 Leaving her New England family and bakery job to pursue a new life in Des Moines, restless twenty-three-year-old Vivette corresponds with a fellow seeker of a meaningful life throughout a cross-country journey marked by secrets, decisions, and compromises shared over pool tables, postcards, and shots of whiskey. Original. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Reading in the Dark Jessica R. McCort, 2016-04-28 Contributions by Rebecca A. Brown, Justine Gieni, Holly Harper, Emily L. Hiltz, A. Robin Hoffman, Kirsten Kowalewski, Peter C. Kunze, Jorie Lagerwey, Nick Levey, Jessica R. McCort, and Janani Subramanian Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. It is even more crucial now to understand the methods by which such texts have traditionally operated and how those methods have been challenged, abandoned, and appropriated. Reading in the Dark fills a gap in criticism devoted to children's popular culture by concentrating on horror, an often-neglected genre. These scholars explore the intersection between horror, popular culture, and children's cultural productions, including picture books, fairy tales, young adult literature, television, and monster movies. Reading in the Dark looks at horror texts for children with deserved respect, weighing the multitude of benefits they can provide for young readers and viewers. Refusing to write off the horror genre as campy, trite, or deforming, these essays instead recognize many of the texts and films categorized as scary as among those most widely consumed by children and young adults. In addition, scholars consider how adult horror has been domesticated by children's literature and culture, with authors and screenwriters turning that which was once horrifying into safe, funny, and delightful books and films. Scholars likewise examine the impetus behind such re-envisioning of the adult horror novel or film as something appropriate for the young. The collection investigates both the constructive and the troublesome aspects of scary books, movies, and television shows targeted toward children and young adults. It considers the complex mechanisms by which these texts communicate overt messages and hidden agendas, and it treats as well the readers' experiences of such mechanisms. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Writing Spaces 1 Charles Lowe, Pavel Zemliansky, 2010-06-18 Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing, much like the model made famous by Wendy Bishop’s “The Subject Is . . .” series. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about developing nearly every aspect of craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level. Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Help Wanted Karen Litzinger, 2021-11-03 The job search can be an emotional roller coaster. Help Wanted is an easy-to-browse guide for coping, inspiration, and motivation. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Writing and Healing Charles M. Anderson, Marian M. MacCurdy, 2000 Provides a unique occasion for teachers, scholars, and other professional to begin an open, serious conversation about the healing power of writing. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? Dianne Donnelly, 2010-05-28 This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen chapters collected in ‘Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?’ cover a range of theoretical and pedagogical topics and explore the inner workings and conflicts of the workshop model. The needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the chapter authors’ consideration of non-normative pedagogies. The book is a must-read for all teachers of Creative Writing, as well as for researchers in Creative Writing Studies. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Scraping Away Fred Shaw, 2020 In his debut, full-length collection, Shaw drills down using a series of narrative poems to consider the cost (in something more than dollars) of what it takes to feed a starving public that often finds those in the service industry to be faceless and replaceable. The work here hopes to celebrate and humanize the millions of service workers as neighbors and loved ones doing labor that is often forgotten or misunderstood. Scraping Away looks to achieve this by considering the person as more than just their job, exploring complicated family relationships and the angst of a Rust Belt adolescence.-- |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Kingdom Under Glass Jay Kirk, 2011-11-22 In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy and environmental conservation and created the famed African Hall at New York's Museum of Natural History. Akeley risked death time and again in the jungles of Africa as he stalked animals for his dioramas and hobnobbed with outsized personalities of the era, such as Theodore Roosevelt and P. T. Barnum. Kingdom Under Glass is a rollicking biography...an epic adventure...[and] a beguiling novelistic portrait of a man and an era straining to hear the call of the wild (Publishers Weekly). |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: Fire on Mount Maggiore John Parras, 2005 Matteo Arteli, a firefighter struggling with survivor guilt, finds himself at the center of an intricate conspiracy while probing suspicions around the circumstances of a fierce blaze that killed five men in his brigade. A first novel. |
| creative writing classes pittsburgh: A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers Poets and Writers, Inc. Staff, 2003 Resource. THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETS & FICTION WRITERS is a required resource for any arts or presenting organization looking for literary readers, as well as for all publishers seeking to solicit work from the best American writers. In additon, writers can use the book to find the right writing mentor and connect with other writers. When I directed my first arts program, [the Directory] delivered the addresses and phone numbers of writers I loved, but couldn't find. How many writers and audiences are robbed without the information between these covers?--Cornelius Eady, co-founder and co-director, Cave Canem and author of Brutal Imagination. |
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• Classes: Graduate World/Multicultural Literature: Afro-Latinx Narratives, Creative Writing, Graduate Creative Writing (Fiction and Hybrid), American Literature survey, Graduate …
Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy
writing, with lessons designed to help learners differentiate between the differences in the two constructs. This writing-intensive course includes learning topics in the areas of argument …
Creative Writing Section 04 - San José State University
Note: I may record our Zoom classes for the exclusive use of students in this class. ... English 71 is an introduction to formal aspects of creative writing and a celebration of creative complexity …
Creative Writing Course Syllabus - newcastle.k12.ok.us
Creative Writing Course Syllabus Mrs. Thomas 2013-2014 Course Description: This course will focus on expressive writing in many different forms. Students will have the opportunity to …
Creative Writing - CSN
The AA degree with a Creative Writing emphasis focuses on the writing of fiction or poetry. As knowledge of the genres and traditions of literature is central to the development of a writer or …
BXA Intercollege Degree Programs - Carnegie Mellon University
year creative writing and directing student. AVG STARTING SALARY. $128,073 . RECENT EMPLOYERS. Adobe. Apple. Amazon. Bungie. Google. Hive AI. NASA. Teach for America. …
Teaching Creative Writing in Asia - Rochester Institute of …
creative writing in India, Dhar states, “[i]ndeed, in almost all of the private, liberal arts campuses . like ours, there is an increasing demand for creative writing classes” (72). Page Richards …
Millner J CRW 2001 CRN 12916 Introduction to Creative …
Introduction to Creative Writing Spring 2022 COURSE SYLLABUS AND CLASS POLICIES Instructor: Jesse Millner, MFA, Instructor III Office: 127 Reed Hall Email: jmillner@fgcu.edu …
High School Graduation Requirements in Kansas - Kansas …
or philosophy may be approved as NCAA core courses. Remedial classes and classes completed through credit-by-exam are not considered NCAA core courses. Classes that are NCAA core …
Syllabus for English 261 Introduction to Creative Writing
261 helps to meet these Program Learning Outcomes for the BFA in Creative Writing: 1. The student will begin to demonstrate close reading skills and recognize strategies used by …
GREENFIELD - City of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 412-422-6551 HOURS OF OPERATION Monday-Friday 8 AM—4 PM ... art, reading, writing. Whether you read your favorite book, watch your favorite show or movie, listen …
CREATIVE RECOVERY SOCIAL REHAB PROGRAM - Chartiers …
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K to 12 BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM SENIOR HIGH …
K to 12 BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL – ACADEMIC TRACK K to 12 Senior High School Humanities and Social Sciences Strand – Creative Writing/Malikhaing …
What Is College Reading? - WAC Clearinghouse
reading in first-year writing to help students develop the skills they will need in both the reading and writing aspects of academic critical literacy for their work in college and beyond. This …
CCAC / Pitt Connection Transfer Guide - University of …
Using the Pitt Connection Transfer Guide The Pitt Connection Transfer Guide is a resource designed to assist you with: • Planning your CCAC coursework • Maximizing the number of …
Creative Writing - Oklahoma.gov
creative writing classes cover several genres, others concentrate on a single genre such as poetry or playwriting. Teachers of creative writing must hold a certificate in English. Competencies …
General Education: Core & Humanities, Arts and Social …
HU2510 Intro to Creative Writing 3 HU2538 British Experience in Literature 3 HU2548 HU3606Young Adult Literature 3 HU2633 HU3621Fundamentals of Digital Imaging 3 HU2700 …
EN GLISH/WRITING (ENWR)
EN GLISH/WRITING (ENWR) ENWR 205 Creative Nonfiction (3 credits) Prerequisite(s): WRIT 105 or HONP 100; students in the SEEDS program can take ENGL 110, ENGL 111, ENGL 113, …
Making Space for Creative Writing Research in the Academy
creative writing classes at the university level. It’s an impressive list but, unsurprisingly, they leave out . other notable writers like Hanif Kureishi, who calls creative writing courses “a waste of …
Teaching the “Unteachable”: Creative Writing Pedagogical …
This begs the question: how is creative writing taught at UW-L? As it currently stands, UW-L creative writing classes are limited to the 300/400 level and rely heavily on the generic …
Woodland Hills School District - Cloudinary
Pittsburgh, PA 15221 412-244-1100 ... Rising Grade Level Expected Previously Completed Classes Typical Minimal Credits Received Sophomore 1 full completed year (typically) 5 credits …
Creative Writing - Grand Valley State University
In most creative writing classes, the purpose of reflective writing is to assess your growth as a writer by documenting your writing and revision process, your struggles and successes as a …
The Psychology of Creative Writing - Scott Barry Kaufman
Creative writing is a complex, multifaceted endeavor that can only be adequately apprehended using an interdisciplinary perspective. Researchers may have therefore been discouraged by …
Program Director’s Handbook - Association of Writers
programs in creative writing. Our association has grown since then. Creative writing is now taught at most of the 2,400 departments of literature in North America. More than 300 graduate …
Creative Writing Assignments in a Second Language …
This article makes a case for using creative writing in a second language course. Creative writing increases students’ enthusiasm for writing skills development and supports students’ creativity, …
2022 Profile - IMSA
• Creative Writing Workshop • Graphic Novels—Image and Text • Modern Theater •(Sophomore) Speculative Fiction Studies ... required classes for graduation are in math and science. (Each …
General Education: Core & Humanities, Arts and Social …
HU2510 Intro to Creative Writing 3 HU3545 HU2538 British Experience in Literature 3 HU2548 Young Adult Literature 3 HU2633 Fundamentals of Digital Imaging 3 HU2645 Graphic and …
Film Studies major - University of Pittsburgh
At the University of Pittsburgh, the Film and Media Studies Program offers interdisciplinary courses concerning the history, aesthetics, and theory of cinema and time-based media and ...
The Effects of Providing and Receiving Peer Feedback on …
feedback to large numbers of students, especially in writing (Applebee & YONG WU is a researcher at the Learning and Research Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh, …
Table of Contents Introduction to Wheeling Jesuit University ...
5 Introduction Wheeling Jesuit University in Brief Founded: 1954 Curriculum: Four-year programs with 27 majors in liberal arts and sciences, nursing, allied health and business areas. …
Middle School Creative Writing - Liberty University
Middle School Creative Writing 2018-2019 LAN0651 | 1 . Middle School Creative Writing . LAN0651 . Course Description . Creative Writing is a semester long course that explores …
English - Literature - Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
ENGLISH.204 Introduction to Creative Writing 1 . ENGLISH.212 English Grammar and Usage 1 . ENGLISH.225 Rhetoric and Professional Writing 3 . ... must be completed before students can …
MA/MFA PROGRAM Creative Writing - Northwestern …
The creative writing program offers flexible scheduling and pacing that allows students to balance work, personal life, and artistic practice. In both degree tracks — the Master of Arts in Creative …
(knb042@stanford.edu) THE SCHOOL GLOBAL STUDENT …
A typical course of study for a full-time student comprises five academic classes per year for a total of 20 academic courses, which for graduates must include: four years of Core, four years …
High School Creative Writing Curriculum - Cloudinary
Board Approved: March 31, 2016 Page | 2 Board Approved with Revisions: February 22, 2018 . Unit 1: Creative Process Subject: Creative Writing Grade: 11-12 Name of Unit: Introduction to …
CREATIVE WRITING FOR EFL CLASSROOM: STUDENTS’ …
Creative writing can be applied in any forms, and it will be beneficial in any way as scholars have suggested and investigated. Hecke (2011) suggested graphic novels to enhance students’ …
Point Park University
At Point Park, the city is truly our campus. Students can walk to cultural attractions such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Opera, as …
2022 - 2023 Catalog - The Art Institutes
Oct 3, 2022 · The Art Institute of Atlanta is a higher education institution that educates professionals in the creative arts. We provide ... Institute of Atlanta may be directed in writing to …
Creative Writing: Short Stories - San José State University
creative writing project with excitement rather than trepidation. Craft Elements of the Short Story Let us examine the craft elements of character, plot, setting and time, metaphor, and voice so …
RECREATION - Pittsford, New York
Memoir Writing Workshop, where we will explore various types of memoirs and discuss why personal writing resonates with readers. This workshop is for all—no writing experience …
Teaching behind bars: Challenges and solutions for creative …
teaching creative writing. Creative Writing classes should be seen as distinct from the literacy or composition programs that are offered as part of basic remedial education in prisons. While …
General Core Requirements - University of Texas at Arlington
creative arts select one of the following: 3 arch 1301 introduction to architecture and interior design art 1301 art appreciation art 1309 introduction to art history i: prehistoric through 16th …
WRITING - catalog.pcc.edu
magazine. Students may also pursue a Creative Writing Focus Award. Successful completion of WR 115 is a prerequisite for creative writing classes; completion of WR 121Z is recommended. …
100 Creative Writing Prompts for Middle and Grade School …
What classes do you take? 9.Magic Potion: You find a magic potion that grants one wish. What do you wish for, and what happens? 10.Adventure in Space: Imagine traveling to another planet. …
Creative Nonfiction: A Movement, Not a Moment - JSTOR
department at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970s, the concept of an "artful" or "new" nonfiction was considered, to say the least, unlikely. My colleagues snickered when I proposed …
Fiction Writing in Literature Classes - JSTOR
So a third value of using creative-writing activities in the literature class is that they help students make explicit and organic connections between the technical terms by which we describe …
2016 Creative Writing Program Review - Pepperdine University
2) To prepare students for advanced graduate degrees in creative writing and literature. 3) To develop each students’ sense of the traditions in their chosen literary genres. 4) To deepen …
What to Consider When Creating Digital-based Learning …
Chart 2. Students' Problem in Learning Creative Writing: Poetry and Short Story with Digital Media. Researchers carried out two processes to document students' preferences for creative …
2024 National Creative Arts Competition Handbook
creative writing, dance, drama, and music) for two consecutive years must enter a different category the third year. Failure to comply with this rule will result in the entry being disqualified. …
