Creativity and Writing Pedagogy - Linking Creative Writers, Researchers, and Teachers - Harriet Levin Millan
14. The Creative Process and Travel
Creativity and Writing Pedagogy - Linking Creative Writers, Researchers, and Teachers - Harriet Levin Millan
Robin Hemley [+]
University of Iowa
Robin Hemley has authored ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including Turning Life into Fiction; Do-Over!; and most recently, A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Travel, and Journalism (University of Georgia Press); and Reply All, his third collection of award-winning stories (Break Away Books, Indiana University Press). He has taught creative writing workshops around the world and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa, is the founder of the biennial conference NonfictioNow, is a senior editor at The Iowa Review and the editor of the online magazine, Defunct (Defunctmag.com). He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Description
Writing trips overseas are recalled and proposed as a valuable source of inspiration for budding writers when they are thrown into a new context. The focus of discussion is on a program that takes a creative writing class abroad as part of the university curriculum.