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Creative Writing

Creative writing is a process of exploration and discovery. This creative writing workshop offers an intensive opportunity for eager and motivated students to investigate ideas and reflect on their experiences. Students will be challenged in both fiction and nonfiction, through short stories, nonfiction narratives, and personal essays, to produce work that will be critiqued by the professor with the aims of developing their skills in written expression and creating tools for critical evaluation of their writing.

Instructors: Barbara Kreiger

2-Week Course for Summer Scholars 2024

Dates Available: 

Session 3 - July 28 - August 9 2024

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Overview

Creative writing is a process of exploration and discovery. This creative writing workshop offers an intensive opportunity for eager and motivated students to investigate ideas and reflect on their experiences. Students will be challenged in both fiction and nonfiction, through short stories, nonfiction narratives, and personal essays, to produce work that will be critiqued by the professor with the aims of developing their skills in written expression and creating tools for critical evaluation of their writing. Students’ work will also be shared with the class in small groups, where methods for constructive criticism will be developed and applied. In the writing workshops, personal attention will be given to each student. In addition, we’ll read excerpts from exemplary writers, and guest speakers will talk to us about their own development. The aim is to become more insightful writers, more perceptive readers, and more confident students.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this course, students will:

Greater motivation and confidence about writing and greater enjoyment

Greater understanding of the skills needed to improve and develop no matter what the level of achievement and ambition

Commitment to keep challenging themselves

Deeper appreciation for the writing process and openness to what others write.

Pre-requisite

None (except for enthusiasm)

Instructor Biography

Barbara Kreiger, Ph.D., has been teaching writing at Dartmouth for over forty years. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor and Chair of the Creative Writing Concentration in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College. She also taught memoir for several years at Dartmouth’s Alumni College. She received her Ph.D. in English from Brandeis University and is the author of The Dead Sea and the Jordan River (3rd edition) and Divine Expectations: An American Woman in Nineteenth-Century Palestine. She has written introductions for new editions of travel classics, and her work has appeared in The New York Times and The Boston Globe and was featured on the cover of the Smithsonian magazine. In 2004-2005, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in Rome, where she taught creative writing, and later was appointed to the Fulbright Specialist roster. She was subsequently invited to teach in Naples, Italy. In 2014, CNN invited her to participate in a documentary on the Dead Sea and the Jordan River.

Whether students are experienced writers or beginners, international students, or native speakers of English, she believes that all of them are engaged in the same process as they begin or continue to write and become increasingly alert to the possibilities for self-expression.

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