In the video “How to Talk About War,” Christopher Merrill (IWP) and journalist Jacki Leyden talk with novelist Victoria Amelina and Roman Avramenko, Executive Director of Truth Hounds, about documenting war crimes in Ukraine...and about the culture that is being destroyed.
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In order to support access to education for all, every time we create a MOOC, we also create a MOOC-Pack. A MOOC-Pack provides a MOOC’s core content, packaged with a how-to guide and extra instructional materials. Using a MOOC-Pack, anyone can lead a writing class or a study group. To browse our MOOC-Packs and access free course materials, please visit the Digital Learning MOOC-Pack Library website >
2020
Outreach Course - Nonfiction Writing (Russia, October-December, 2020)
2019
MOOC – Hidden Meanings: Creative Fiction, Non-Fiction & Facts (Course active to take on your own schedule Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 2019)
Outreach Course – Fake News: Facts, Information, Disinformation, Misinformation (Belgium, Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 2019)
2018
MOOC – Stories of Place: Writing and the Natural World (Nov. 2018)
MOOC – Moving the Margins: Fiction and Inclusion (Sept. 2018)
Outreach Course – Write for Your Life: Turning Trauma into Stories (Russia and Armenia, Nov. 2018)
Outreach Course – “Fake News!”: Facts, Information, Disinformation, Misinformation (Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan, Nov. 2018)
MOOC Translated into Spanish: Cómo los escritores escriben ficción: Mujeres en la narración (How Writers Write Fiction: Storied Women, MOOC in English from Fall 2016)
2017
Outreach Course – A Room of One's Own: Writing Nonfiction in Algeria (Algiers, Spring 2017)
MOOC – Power of the Pen: Identities and Social Issues in Fiction and Nonfiction (May 2017)
MOOC – Power of the Pen: Identities and Social Issues in Poetry and Plays (July 2017)
Outreach Course – On the Line: Playwriting in Russia (Krasnoyarsk | Moscow | Smolensk) (Fall 2017)
2016
MOOC – #Flashwrite Teen Poetry MOOC (Spring 2016)
Outreach Course – Every Grain of Light: Writing Poetry in Afghanistan (Jalalabad | Kabul | Mazar-i-Sharif) (Outreach Course, Summer 2016)
MOOC – Whitman's Civil War: Writing and Imaging Loss, Death, and Disaster (Summer 2016)
MOOC – How Writers Write Fiction 2016: Storied Women (Fall 2016)
2015
Outreach Course – A Room of One's Own (Amman, Jordan | Manama, Bahrain) (Outreach Course, Spring 2015)
MOOC – How Writers Write Poetry 2015 (Spring 2015)
Open-Application Course – Nonfiction Writing Seminar with Amy Leach (Summer 2015)
Open-Application Course – Nonfiction Writing Seminar with Elena Passarello (Summer 2015)
Exchange Open-Application Course – Narrative Witness: Indigenous Peoples, Australia-North America (Fall 2015)
MOOC – How Writers Write Fiction 2015 (Fall 2015)
2014
Open-Application Course – Advanced Nonfiction Seminar (Spring 2014)
MOOC – Every Atom: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" (Spring 2014)
MOOC – How Writers Write Poetry 2014 (Summer 2014)
Exchange –Narrative Witness 2014: Caracas-Sarajevo (Summer 2014)
Outreach Course – Electric Bodies: An Introduction to Form and Craft (Des Moines, USA | Moscow and Smolensk, Russia) (Fall 2014)
Outreach Course – Here She Comes: Chi Li's Come and Go (Beijing and Chengdu, China) (Fall 2014)
MOOC – How Writers Write Fiction 2014 (Fall 2014)
2013
Event – Reading/Q&A (Bogota, Colombia) (Spring 2013)
Exchange –Virtual Writing Project (Iowa City, USA | East Jerusalem, Israel) (Spring 2013)
Exchange –LGBT Reading Group (Iowa City, USA | Glasgow, Scotland) (Spring 2013)
Outreach Course – Introduction to Creative Writing (St. Petersburg, Russia) (Spring 2013)
Outreach Course – Introduction to Creative Writing & Contemporary American Literature (Hargeisa, Somalia) (Spring 2013)
Open-Application Course – Virtual Poetry Seminar (Spring 2013)
Open-Application Course – Poetry Master Class (Summer 2013)
Open-Application Course – Advanced Poetry Seminar (Summer 2013)
Outreach Course – Longing, We Say: Distance in the Literary Imagination (Kirkuk, Iraq) (Fall 2013)
Outreach Course – Angry Young Men: Creative Approaches to Hamlet, Catcher in the Rye, and the First-Person Narrative (St. Petersburg, Russia) (Fall 2013)
Open-Application Course – Advanced Fiction Seminar (Fall 2013)
2012
Outreach Course – Introduction to Creative Writing (Gaza) (Fall 2012)
Event –Creative Writing Series (Baghdad, Iraq) (Fall 2012)
Event – Maori & Tauiwi Literature Lecture (Wellington, New Zealand) (Fall 2012)
Event – Reading/Q&A with Hisham Matar (Fall 2012)
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