READING: For Thursday's class, please read the PDF entitled Atwan13 on Blackboard. Please, pay close attention to how the writer enters into autobiography, specifically the moments he does so through an object. How does detail/descriptive writing about a material object inform us about the speaker?
WRITING: For Thursday's class, please have a hard copy of the 1/2 page writing assignment I gave in class. For those of you who were not present, I assigned a 1/2 page assignment in which you must write descriptively about a particular scene or element within an autobiographical narrative. DO NOT write an actual narrative. Re-read the portion of Atwan13.pdf that describes the hammer. This might help.
For your weekly blog posting, both of your writing assignments will be 300 word free-writes that contain 2 hyperlinks & 1 image or video. The first post will be due 17 Apr 2008 @ midnight & the second post will be due 20 Apr 2008 @ midnight.
EXTRA CREDIT: As always, if you attend the reading, then write a 300 word response to a particular piece or phrase from a piece within 1 week of the reading, you will receive 1 extra credit point. Below is information from the official press release:
NWU Visiting Writers Series presents a reading from novelist Selah Saterstrom: Thursday, April 17th, 7pm in the Callen Conference Center, Smith Curtis Building on the NWU Campus
This Thursday NWU will be hosting novelist Selah Saterstrom for the final installment of the Visiting Writers Series. Saterstrom is a fascinating and intensely emotional writer – her work is edgy, yet firmly in the Southern Gothic tradition. Her novels not only confront the violence endemic in this literary tradition, their innovative structures & style create a haunting and emotionally intense experience.
Selah Saterstrom is the author of The Meat and Spirit Plan and The Pink Institution (both published by Coffee House Press). She co-curates SLAB PROJECTS, an artist/writer-curator initiative concerned with exploring the gaps between decay and reconstruction in ruined or abandoned landscapes, and is also an editor at TRICKHOUSE, a forthcoming on-line curatorial project. Her work appears in various places, most recently in Bombay Gin, Thuggery & Grace, 14 Hills, and Tarpaulin Sky. She has been the artist and writer-in-residence for various institutions and now teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Denver, The Naropa University Summer Writing Program, and Centrum Writing Program.
WRITING: For Thursday's class, please have a hard copy of the 1/2 page writing assignment I gave in class. For those of you who were not present, I assigned a 1/2 page assignment in which you must write descriptively about a particular scene or element within an autobiographical narrative. DO NOT write an actual narrative. Re-read the portion of Atwan13.pdf that describes the hammer. This might help.
For your weekly blog posting, both of your writing assignments will be 300 word free-writes that contain 2 hyperlinks & 1 image or video. The first post will be due 17 Apr 2008 @ midnight & the second post will be due 20 Apr 2008 @ midnight.
EXTRA CREDIT: As always, if you attend the reading, then write a 300 word response to a particular piece or phrase from a piece within 1 week of the reading, you will receive 1 extra credit point. Below is information from the official press release:NWU Visiting Writers Series presents a reading from novelist Selah Saterstrom: Thursday, April 17th, 7pm in the Callen Conference Center, Smith Curtis Building on the NWU Campus
This Thursday NWU will be hosting novelist Selah Saterstrom for the final installment of the Visiting Writers Series. Saterstrom is a fascinating and intensely emotional writer – her work is edgy, yet firmly in the Southern Gothic tradition. Her novels not only confront the violence endemic in this literary tradition, their innovative structures & style create a haunting and emotionally intense experience.
Selah Saterstrom is the author of The Meat and Spirit Plan and The Pink Institution (both published by Coffee House Press). She co-curates SLAB PROJECTS, an artist/writer-curator initiative concerned with exploring the gaps between decay and reconstruction in ruined or abandoned landscapes, and is also an editor at TRICKHOUSE, a forthcoming on-line curatorial project. Her work appears in various places, most recently in Bombay Gin, Thuggery & Grace, 14 Hills, and Tarpaulin Sky. She has been the artist and writer-in-residence for various institutions and now teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Denver, The Naropa University Summer Writing Program, and Centrum Writing Program.
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