Creative Writing
How does creative writing fit with research? Writers must be careful observers of the world and people around them as they create believable stories and accessible poems.
They also use the tools of language, invention, memory, and imagination-tools that benefit anyone in any field.
For the two weeks of this program, you will choose one form - poetry or fiction - and develop a portfolio of writing in that form. You will work with practicing published writers who will guide you through the process of creating, workshopping, revising, and polishing your writing. You will also read from the best of contemporary writers in your chosen area, have the opportunity to hear from and ask questions of visiting writers, and best of all work in a community of writers who are your peers.
Instructors
Cynthia Hardy, UAF Assistant Professor, Developmental Studies/English and Women's Studies
Cindy Hardy teaches English and Developmental English at UAF. She has both an MFA and Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing and has had stories and poems published in various literary magazines. She has been involved in the literary arts in Alaska for many years and developed and taught UAF’s Summer Fine Arts Camp Creative Writing program from 1992-2001. She designed and co-taught ASRA’s Creative Writing Module in 2006 and 2008. This spring she is teaching a creative writing unit in the Effie Kokrine Climate Change and Creative Expression class. She is currently working on a book of essays on the horse. You can read her work on her blog
<mattiespillow.wordpress.com>.
Terry Boren is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Fairbanks with her family. She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. Transplanted from New Mexico twenty years ago, she has learned to make a mean green chile caribou stew. Terry's science fiction stories have been published in INTERZONE, UNIVERSE 3, and other anthologies and mentioned in best of the year lists. She taught the Science Fiction/Fantasy course at the UAF Summer Fine Arts Camp until 2001. She currently teaches English at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.