Residency & Project Period IV

Catalog description

During the 10-day Residency Period, the student attends seminars or lectures on topics related to creative writing, literary issues, and the pedagogy of creative writing; attends Arts, Culture & Society II, participates in required writing workshops (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, young people, literary translation, writing for the screen, playwriting), and attends readings by faculty and guests. All students are required to attend a minimum of seven learning activities and two community activities in each residency period. During each Project Period, the student conducts independent study based on a learning plan designed with a faculty mentor. The learning plan includes a bibliography of readings and an identified number of written works in the student’s genre (e.g. chapters of a novel, a specific number of poems, a number of essays). Students also complete 10 craft annotations. In this Project Period, the student also completes the Final Manuscript and cumulative Annotated Bibliography, and prepares a graduate seminar and a graduate reading for presentation at the next residency. In addition, the student must fulfill required submission dates as well as communicate online with the mentor and/or participate in online activities such as group book discussions.