Summer On-Campus Writing Workshops (Summer 2010 Info Coming in January)

The Creative Writing Program offers introductory and advanced writing workshops throughout the summer.

Our summer writing workshops are open to NYU and Non-NYU students. NYU students will register for the summer term via Albert starting in February. Non-NYU students should refer to the Summer in Greenwich Village website for course and registration information. High school students should consult the NYU Precollege website to learn more about our precollege offerings.

SUMMER 2009 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Summer Session I: May 18 - June 26
Summer Session II: June 29 - August 7

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

V39.0815 Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction and Poetry (Multiple Sections)
No prerequisite. 4 points.
The popular introductory workshop offers an exciting introduction to the basic elements of poetry and fiction—with in-class writing, take-home reading and writing assignments, and substantive discussions of craft. The course is structured as a workshop, which means that students will receive feedback from their instructor and their fellow writers in a roundtable setting, and should be prepared to offer their classmates responses to their work. 

Summer Session I Section 2, Caedra Scott-Flaherty TR 1:30pm-4:40pm Section 6, Evy Ibarra MW 9:15am-12:25pm

Summer Session II Section 1, Lynne Beckenstein MW 1:30pm-4:40pm Section 3, David Foley MW 9:15am-12:25pm Section 7, Tanya Rey TR 1:30pm-4:40pm

For High School Students We offer two precollege sections of V39.0815 Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction & Poetry (Sections 4 & 5). Both sections meet TR 1:30-4:40 during Summer Session II. Please visit the NYU Precollege website for more information and application instructions.

V39.0820.001 Advanced Fiction Workshop (Summer Session II)
Jennifer Gilmore, MW 4:00-7:10
In this advanced workshop you will practice and discuss many phases of the writing process--note-taking, drafting, revising and offering feedback--so that you can continue to develop your own process and discipline.  Your writing will be the primary texts and in discussing your work we'll investigate issues of craft.  How do we decide the point of view of our stories?  How do we introduce a character and make her come alive?  How can the setting reflect a character's inner life?  These are the kinds of questions we will try to answer in our own work.  We will also read a range of contemporary fiction in order to read actively, as writers, to examine and learn from the complex decisions authors make in constructing their stories.

V39.0830.001 Advanced Poetry Workshop (Summer Session II)
Lee Briccetti, TR 4:00-7:10
Writing poems uses the personal music of "the voice that is great within us." This course emphasizes each participating writer's gifts and the deepening of facility through experimentation--exercises in metrical invention and revision, in an environment of conversation. Group critique and assigned readings reinforce a lively poetry exchange. The final project is the creation of a fascicle of poems.