Introduction to Creative Writing (Gaza)

Course Description

In the International Writing Program's second partnership with the American Corner at Al Azhar University in Gaza, the IWP Distance Learning Program will develop a six-week introductory creative writing course taught by Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Lauren Haldeman. This course will feature weekly live sessions with the instructor, split evenly between poetry and fiction, and will conclude with a reading of student work.

Instructor

Lauren HALDEMAN is the editor of the Writing University website at the University of Iowa and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Third Coast, and Coe Review, among others.

Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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