Creative Writing Workshop

04/20/2009 00:00:00

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Creative Writing Workshop

FKIP bekerjasama dengan Kedutaan Amerika mengadakan Creative Writing Workshop by Professor Valerie Miner, a Fullbright Specialist, yang diadakan pada tanggal 23-27 Maret 2009. Acara ini diadakan di Arinze dari jam 9 – 11 lalu jam 12-15.

Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of thirteen books. Her latest novel, After Eden was by the University of Oklahoma Press in Spring, 2007.

Other novels include Range of Lights, A Walking Fire, Winter’s Edge, Blood Sisters, All Good Women, Movement: A Novel in Stories, and Murder in the English Department. Her short fiction books include Abundant Light, The Night Singers, and Trespassing. Her collection of essays is Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews and Reportage. In 2002, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir was a Finalist for the PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award. Abundant Light was a 2005 Fiction Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards.

Valerie Miner’s work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Salmagundi, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Village Voice, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, Conditions, The T.L.S., The Women’s Review of Books, The Nation and journals. Her stories and essays are published in more than sixty anthologies. Her collaborative work includes books, museum exhibits as well as theatre. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4.

She has won fellowships and awards from The Rockefeller Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The NEA, The Jerome Foundation, The Heinz Foundation, The Australian Council Literary Arts Board and numerous other sources. She has won Fullbright Fellowships to Tunisia, India, and Indonesia.

Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now a professor and long term artist in residence at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshop. She and her partner live in San Francisco and Mendocino, California.

  

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