Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing
Study Abroad in Arts and Writing
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UNO's innovative Low Residency Program combines summer study abroad with fall and spring semesters online. Online workshops and literature classes, publication opportunities, residencies in San Miguel de Allende, or at Ezra Pound's Castle Brunnenburg in Italy, and more.
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Annual Writing Contest for Study Abroad Check out the Guidelines for the 2010 Contest and the winners of the 2008 and 2009 Contests. Want to Meet Our Low-Residency MFA Alumni? Click Here.
The Writing Workshops in San Miguel de Allende July 3 to July 30, 2010 2009 will be the second year for our new Writing Workshops in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and it promises to be a great one, with faculty like Joseph and Amanda Boyden, Susan Schultz, Dinty W. Moore, and Jim Grimsley, and guests like Hank Lazer, Andrei Codrescu, Michael Winter, Steven Church, Alex Espinoza and many more.
The Ezra Pound Center for Literature June 14 to July 11, 2010 This prestigous program, featuring a poetry workshop and seminar on Pound led by Professor John Gery, is being offered again this summer, led by poet and professor John Gery. It is held at Pound's castle, Schloss Brunnenburg, in the picturesque Tyrolean alps of northern Italy, and features 3 days and nights in Venice.
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Summer Programs in Mexico and Europe 09
Some highlights of past summer's programs: Atlanta playwright and
novelist Jim Grimsley returned to the Writing Workshops in San Miguel de Allende to teach a Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. Kristin Iversen joined the Writing Wrokshops in San Miguel to teach a non-fiction workshop. Also, returning to teach a second non-fiction workshop, was Steven Church.
Amanda Boyden's latest novel Babylon Rolling has recently been released by Random House to rave reviews and enormous fanfare. Joseph Boyden's new novel, Through Black Spruce, releases from Penguin this year to worldwide anticipation, after his first novel, Three Day Road, was recently named an international bestseller. Joseph recently won the prestigious Giller Prize, one of the top five literary prizes in the world. Kay Murphy joined The Writing Workshops in San Miguel for the first time to lead the poetry workshop in San Miguel de Allende. John Gery led the poetry workshop and the Pound studies in Brunnenburg, as well as the tour of Pound's Venice. Randy Bates went to Montpellier to lead the mixed-genre workshop on the Mediterranean. And, again this summer, we offered a workshop in translation led by poet and translator Peter Thompson, in San Miguel de Allende.
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