[Englmajors] Summer in ROME

[Bridget Norquist]

We are still accepting applications to the Summer A-Term (June 16 - July 
16, 2010) Creative Writing in Rome Program!

Application deadline:  This Friday, March 26, 2010 (thereafter we will 
consider applications on a space-available basis.)

http://depts.washington.edu/engl/abroad/romesummer10.php

JOIN a band of ink-stained writer-adventurers for a month of 
concentrated exercise and conversation in and about the Eternal City. 
This is Rome from a generalists's perspective: history and geography, 
art and architecture, language and literature, the color and vagary and 
flavor of daily life all constellate in the writer's notebook. Following 
in the footsteps of those poets, painters, saints and soldiers who for 
some two and a half millenia have traveled where all roads lead, we'll 
sack the city word by cobble, in conversation, practice, and stride.

The Summer Creative Writing in Rome Program is open to anyone 
(undergraduates, graduates, alumni, citizens-at-large) seeking to join 
an intensive program in the written arts.

How to apply: Please submit a Letter of Interest, along with names and 
contact information for two academic references, to both instructors. 
This may be done by email [rhoogs at gmail.com and jwh476 at gmail.com].

Your letter should outline your academic background and writerly 
interests and experience, remark on your reasons for wanting to go to 
Rome, and highlight what positive and special contributions you might 
make to a group constituted for maximum imaginative adventure in one of 
the world’s most remarkable settings. Formal training in creative 
writing is less important to us than pluck; serious enthusiasm; reliably 
good humor; and the willingness to walk until your shoes fall off, and 
then keep going. We will spend an intensive month living and writing in 
close quarters, at elevated temperatures, and with the city of Rome 
(beautiful, dirty, chaotic Rome) as our classroom. You must be good 
company. With that caveat in mind, the program is wide open. Writers at 
all levels of experience are encouraged to apply. No prior knowledge of 
Italian is required or necessary to participate in this program.

Credits:  Undergraduates will receive 15 credits [ENGL 363, Literature 
and the Arts; ENGL 490, Study Abroad Program; and ENGL 493, Creative 
Writing Conference].

Cost:  The program fee is $3,350. In addition to the program fee, all 
program participants pay a non-refundable, IPE fee of $250. Non-UW 
students pay an additional non-matriculated student fee of $200. The 
program fee includes accommodation, tuition, facilities at the Palazzo 
Pio, field trips, excursions, and most program-related admission fees. 
It does NOT include airfare, board, or personal expenses.

Faculty:

Rebecca Hoogs is the author of a chapbook, Grenade (2005) and her poems 
have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, 
The Journal, Poetry Northwest, POOL, The Florida Review, and others. She 
is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (2004), Artist 
Trust of Washington State (2005), and Jack Straw Productions (2008). In 
2007, she presented commissioned work at the Seattle Poetry Festival and 
The Roethke Readings, a presentation of ACT Theatre and Eleventh Hour 
Productions. Before joining Seattle Arts & Lectures in June 2004, she 
taught English at the University of Washington, where she received her 
M.F.A. in Poetry and an M.A. in English. She is the Director of 
Education Programs and curator for the Poetry Series for Seattle Arts & 
Lectures.

Johnny Horton is a graduate of the University of Washington's MFA 
program in poetry. Currently, he teaches writing and American literature 
at Seattle Central Community College. He's published poems in Notre Dame 
Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Willow Springs, The Laurel 
Review, Mare Nostrum and other magazines. His poems have been performed 
before the Seattle City Council and anthologized in Pontoon: An 
Anthology of Washington State Poets. His awards include a Washington 
Artist Trust GAP grant, and residency fellowships from The Espy 
Foundation, Casa Libre en Solana, The Ragdale Foundation, and The 
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work is influenced by history 
and sorcery, and he's concerned with the hypnotic, trance-inducing 
qualities of metrical verse. Some of his favorite poets include Yeats, 
Frost, Robert Graves, and Richard Wilbur. Rome is not his first love, 
but it might be his best.

-- 
Bridget Norquist
Academic Adviser
ENGLISH

ph:  206-543-2634
fax: 206-616-9318

http://depts.washington.edu/engl