2010-2012 Past Distance Learning Courses

Fall 2012 Distance Learning Courses

Introduction to Creative Writing (Gaza)

Events:

Creative Writing Series (Baghdad, Iraq)
Maori & Tauiwi Literature Lecture (Wellington, New Zealand)
Reading/Q&A with Hisham Matar

January-May 2012 Distance Learning Courses

International Issues in Creative Nonfiction: Immigration
Writing the Globe: Young Writers Workshop
Seven-Week Fiction Workshop

August-December 2011 Distance Learning Courses

Young Adult Fiction Workshop
Graphic Novel Seminar

January-May 2011 Distance Learning Courses

International Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop
Native American and Maori Reading Group
American University of Beirut Writing Workshops

January-May 2010 Distance Learning Course

Saudi Women's Reading Group

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Happening Now

  • Jennifer Feeley’s translation of Tongueless, Lau Yee-wa’s thriller sketching Hong Kong’s slide toward linguistic totalitarianism, is forthcoming from Feminist Press.

  • In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."

  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

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