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9:30-12:30 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
Fiction Writing Workshop
Poetry Writing Workshop
Multi-genre Workshop*
2:00-5:00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
CLOSED
Fiction Writing Workshop
Poetry Writing Workshop
Multi-genre Workshop*
Workshops will, for the most part, follow the “Iowa model” in which student work is scrutinized in group critique, and in which a mentor leads these classroom discussions offering his or her own summarizing critique; in many cases, mentors suggest reading lists following each critique session.
The Multi-genre workshop will be composed of writers of creative nonfiction (multi-genre mentors will have strong credentials in creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry), poetry and fiction. This offering is for students who work exclusively in one of these three genres, or who work in any combination of the three. The discourse of the multi-genre workshop will often be comparative; that is, for example, discussion may center on the differences between dialogue in fiction and nonfiction, the nature of artifice in all three genres, the nature of exposition in all three genres, or the difference between “fact” and “fiction” in all three genres.
Grades will be based on attendance, class participation (quality more than quantity), suggested grades by class mentors, and on a minimum 1000-word personal essay centered on the Tuesday lectures that will be handed in to the PSP director, at the Ypsilon Theater, on the final Thursday of the program.
The PSP Permanent Faculty in Creative Writing:
Stuart Dybek
Considered one of the masters of the short story form, Dybek has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including a McArthur “genius” Grant. He is among the most beloved teachers of fiction writing in the United States.
Jaimy Gordon
Considered one of the finest prose stylists of our time, Jaimy Gordon has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, among them the National Book Award. Many of her students have gone on to transcendent careers.
Robert Eversz
Considered one of the finest literary crime novelists of a generation, Robert Eversz has received critical acclaim in the U.S. and across the world. A co-founder of the Prague Summer Program, he is beloved by the hundreds of PSP students he has mentored.
Patricia Hampl
Considered a master of the postmodern memoir, Patricia Hampl has won numerous prestigious awards, including a McArthur “genius” Grant. She is a leading mentor of memoirists and personal essayists.
Richard Katrovas
The founding director of the Prague Summer Program, Richard Katrovas has published across the genres, and has won numerous fellowships and awards.
Other writing faculty will be named after the first of the year.
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