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NYS Writers Institute Writing Fellow James Lasdun
ALBANY, NY (01/24/2013)(readMedia)-- Please Note: Dated Material. Do not run after February 18, 2013
New York State Writers Institute Fellow and award-winning author James Lasdun will conduct two creative writing workshops for community writers during the spring 2013 semester. Lasdun, a fiction and nonfiction writer, poet, and screenwriter, will offer two eight-week workshops: one on memoir and personal essay writing, and one on fiction writing. The workshops are offered for non-credit and will be held at the University at Albany's uptown campus. Admission to both workshops is based on the submission of writing samples. Complete information on the workshops and submission guidelines may be obtained by calling the Institute at 518-442-5620 or by visiting the Institute's website at:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/workshop.html
Fiction Workshop
The Fiction Workshop (starting March 27) will focus on detailed discussion of students' work but there will also be readings from published novels, novellas, and short stories. These will range from the classic to the contemporary-Tolstoy to Jhumpa Lahiri-and will be selected with a view to broadening the discussion of topics such as character, plot, style and form, as they arise. Participants will be expected to be strongly self-motivated and to submit two works of up to twenty pages each over the course of the semester. These may be short stories or excerpts from longer works.
Memoir and the Personal Essay Workshop
Personal encounters, whether with landscapes, cities, objects, animals, other people, or for that matter any facet of life outside one's immediate circumstances, have long provided fertile ground for writers of imaginative nonfiction. Science and technology have also lent themselves to this versatile form, and writers with an interest in these subjects are strongly encouraged to apply. The workshop (starting March 28) will focus on detailed discussion of students' work, which will be supplemented with readings from authors ranging from Oliver Sacks to Joan Didion, Elizabeth Bishop to V. S. Naipaul. Participants will be expected to be strongly self-motivated and to submit two works of up to twenty pages each over the course of the semester.
James Lasdun is a fiction writer, poet, and screenwriter. Born and raised in England, Lasdun has received awards and critical praise for his work on both sides of the Atlantic. Critic James Wood has said, "James Lasdun seems to me to be one of the secret gardens of English writing . . . When we read him we know what language is for."
Lasdun's newest book, Give Me Everything You Have (2013), is a nonfiction account of his experience of being harassed and stalked (electronically) by a former writing student. Publishers Weekly named it a December 2012 "Pick of the Week," and said, "This subtle, compassionate take on the subject is rife with insights into the current cyberculture's cult of anonymity, as well as the power, failure, and magic of writing."
His most recent story collection, It's Beginning to Hurt, published in 2009, was listed by The Atlantic Monthly as number four of its top five books of 2009. His short story, "An Anxious Man," received the 2006 United Kingdom National Short Story Prize.
Seven Lies (2005), Lasdun's most recent novel, was short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and long-listed for the Booker Prize.
Lasdun is also the author of the novel The Horned Man (2002), the story collection The Siege (1999), the poetry collection Landscape with Chainsaw (2001), and two travel guides coauthored with his wife, Pia Davis, Walking and Eating in Provence (2008) and Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria (1997).
For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writer-inst.
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