Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik
11. Travel Writing without Leaving Home
Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik
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
This chapter describes the techniques used by the author during the Summer Institute teaching travel writing to a group of mostly Asian university instructors, many serving communities of ESL students. It introduces a number of exercises of observation and self-reflection.