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Show !MONDAY, JULY 9 , 2001 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS PAGE 3 Creative Writing Workshop set Utah }s Poet Laureate David Lee will again direct popular conference T here are stilJ openings available ENGL 4920 or ENGL 5580. The credit for the outhem Utah Creative can be earned for no additional cost. Writing Workshop, to be held The Conference location is the UU July 16-20. Mountain Leaming Center, 11 miles up The conference i designed to teach Cedar Canyon on Highway 14. Classes beginning and advanced writers, · run as scheduled: Poetry, 8:30-9:45 ; English teacher and ~ollege students Environmental Writing, 10:00-11 :15; the techniques of writing and Creative Non-Fiction, 11 :30-12:45; understanding fictim:i , poeLry, creative Fiction Writing, .1 :00-2:15; Method of non-fiction, and the es ay. Teaching Creative Writing, 2:30-4:00. David Lee, Utah ' poet laureate and You may choose up to three sections as the longtime chair of Southern Utah your schedule. University's department of language and Lunch wilJ be served and there will be literature, is the director of the nights, likely Tuesday or Wednesday, workshop. where the profes ionaJ writer will give Each day of the conference Will readings from their work. indude lectures and workshops Also, workshop participants (and any conducted by distinguished presenters, interested writers not attending the each With much experience in the field workshop) Will have the opponunity to of writing and the teaching of writing. read their work as well. Participants wilJ have the opportunity The four presenters include usan J to learn from both theory and Tweit, the author of seven book about laboratory (hands-on) session . the American West. Tweit teache and "The workshops will be especially speaks at workshops throughout the beneficial to teachers who teach country. Her books include easons in creative writing, students who are the Desert, and the national awardinterested in this field or the winning picture book, City Foxes. She professional or amateur writer who is o-founder of the Border Book wants ideas and a new perspective," Festival, a member of Women Writing said C. David Nyman , dean of summer the West and the ociety of Children 's chool and associate dean of the School Book Writers and lllu trators. of Continuing and Professional tudies. John Lane has lived on a wilderness The cost is $205. To register, call island off the coast of Georgia (435) 586-1994. VISA and MasterCard (Cumberland National Seashore), are accepted. surveyed crocodiles in Central America For those who wish, college credit is (Mexico and Belize), and assisted with available by signing up for ENGL 2920, the survey of a srudy site for monkey.s in the remote rain fore ts of uriname. Much of this experience has made its way into his essays, poems and stones. He has be~n published in a wide variety of forums and has published a collection of e ay , Weed Time: Essays from the Edge of a Country Yard about his year living in a cabin near the Great Smoky Mountains. Dianne Nelson OberhansJy's A Brief History of Male Nudes in America won the 1992 Flannery O 'Connor Award for fiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press. She has taught and served on the board of directors for Writers at Work and has served on the Literary Arts Panel for the Utah Arts Council. Primus St. John has taught literature and creative writing at Portland tate University in Oregon . One of the five artists who inaugurated the NEA's "Poets in the chools" program, he has received wide recognition for his poetry, including a reading on ational Public Radio, an Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and a nomination for the · American Book Award. His most recent published work is Communion: Poems 1976-1998, published by Copper Canyon Press, for which he won a Western States Book Award. At right, from top: Susan Tweit, Diane t,lelson Oberhansley, Primus St. John , John Lane. \ 1• |