Sample Craft Lectures
January and July Residencies
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Sample Craft Lectures
Craft Lectures in poetry, fiction and nonfiction are offered every residency. Writing
is an art, but it is also a craft for which tools can be recommended, and techniques
can be learned. All students are required to attend all craft lectures in all genres.
Topics for recent craft lectures in poetry have included:
The Line and How to Break It
Nickole Brown
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Poets
Jeff Skinner
At the Edges of Free Verse: Prose Poetry and Prosy Poetry: A Consideration of Prose
Poetry and Long-lined Free Verse.
Bobby C. Rogers
Topics for recent craft lectures in fiction have included:
The Said and the Unsaid: Tips on Writing Dialogue
Julia Watts
Writing Historical Fiction
Lynn Pruitt
From Where I Stand: Some Thoughts on Perspective in Narrative Prose
Padma Viswanathan
Topics for recent craft lectures in nonfiction have included:
Fiction Technique in Creative Nonfiction: The “I” as Character, and Other Imaginative
Introductions of the Objective into the Subjective
Christine Hale
Writing Through Grief
Jessica Handler
Conventions of Form in Nonfiction
Caroline Casey