Our most important stories wrestle life and imagination into myths that transcend our individual experience. This two-session workshop, led by Dr. George David Clark, professor of Creative Writing at Washington & Jefferson College, is designed to explore the tools writers employ to discover such profound meanings in both fantastic and realistic narratives. We will concentrate on image-making and character development, and we will share, celebrate, and challenge participants’ original drafts.
This is a two-part series class. By registering for the first session, you are automatically registered for the second session as well.
George David Clark is the author of Reveille (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize) and Newly Not Eternal (forthcoming from LSU Press) and his poems and short stories appear regularly in the nation’s leading journals: AGNI, The Believer, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. After earning an MFA at the University of Virginia and a PhD at Texas Tech, David held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship at Colgate University and, later, the Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University. He’s received additional honors from Southern Poetry Review (the Guy Owen Prize), Narrative Magazine (the 30 Below Prize), and the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (the Meringoff Prize), among others. The editor-in-chief of 32 Poems, David teaches creative writing as an associate professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College.
This event is part of PTPL's NEA BIG READ program. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.