|
 |
In September, I won third place
in a national fiction writing contest sponsored by Ghost Road
Press for a story entitled "Goose Summer." It will be published
in December 2007 in a volume titled Open Windows 2007. My
story "Even the Stones" was part of an anthology, Open
Windows 2006, which won the 2007 Colorado Book Award for
anthology/collection.
I have had a paper accepted for presentation at the Popular
Culture Conferences Literature and Visual Arts section: "After
Tea: Adapting Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary for Stage
Performance." The conference will be held in March 2008 in San
Francisco.
As a public good project, I presented a workshop on writers
block and invention for the writing club at DUs Women's
College. The three-hour workshop, held Saturday, October 20, was
based on the groups request to work with the theme of
"Re-energizing the Spirit." |
|
Carol Samson |
|
|
 |
I received funding
from the Service-Learning Faculty Scholars Program to help start
Writing in Action, a public interest writing group open to DU
undergraduates, graduate students, and Writing Program faculty
who are committed to putting their writing abilities to work for
the public good. We'll work with Denver community-based
organizations who want help producing the writing they need to
fulfill their missions and who would like also to take part in
scholarly and creative projects that study and celebrate the
citys vibrant public sphere.
The group's work will be oriented toward service, scholarship,
and teaching alike. As writers, we'll collaborate with community
partners to develop the pamphlets, brochures, booklets, posters,
web copy, and other materials that they use to advance and
publicize their work. As rhetoric and writing researchers and
literary artists, we'll document, study, and commemorate civic
and cultural activism in Denver by compiling histories,
conducting interviews, case studies, and ethnographies, and
composing poetry, creative nonfiction, and other imaginative
works. And as teachers of writing, we'll incorporate these
collaborative projects into our classes, giving our students the
opportunity to learn the craft of writing in a meaningful social
context. In the winter quarter, I'll teach a Writing in Action
section of WRIT 1133. Titled "Writing the City," the class will
give students the opportunity to write for and about one of
several community organizations involved in politics, the
environment, and the arts. |
|
John Tiedemann |
|
Home |
 |
