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WESLEYAN WRITING
Director of Writing Programs: Anne Greene
phone: (860) 685-3604
email: agreene@wesleyan.edu
Courses emphasizing
writing:
Most courses in the humanities and social sciences ask
students to write. Faculty members have identified selected courses across the
curriculum as having special emphasis on writing. These courses often ask
students to revise their papers and to discuss work-in-progress with the
instructor or with writing tutors assigned to the course.
A new Visiting Editors program allows students in selected
courses to work with professional writers and editors, either on campus or
online. The University's First-Year Initiative Program offers all first-year
students the opportunity to take a small seminar or inter-disciplinary course:
these FYI courses typically offer close attention to students' writing.
Fiction, Poetry,
Nonfiction, Writing for the Stage, and Screenwriting
The English Department regularly offers writing courses in
fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Courses in writing for the stage and
screenwriting are offered occasionally.
Wesleyan's writing faculty include Kit
Reed, Gayle Pemberton, Elizabeth Willis, Matthew Sharpe, Lisa Cohen, Kate Rushin, and Anne
Greene. Annie Dillard and Phyllis Rose were members of the faculty for many years. Other recent
visiting writing teachers include John Vincent, Steve Almond, Jonathan Schell, Amy Bloom, Roxana Robinson,
Alexander Chee, Paul LaFarge, and Honor Moore.
The Distinguished Writers/ New Voices course, the Recent
American Poetry series, and the Millett Fellows program offer students the
chance to hear contemporary writers discuss their work. Among recent visitors
are John Ashbery, Grace Paley, Robert Caro, Jamaica Kincaid, Robert Stone,
Russell Banks, Gish Jen, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert Creeley, C.D. Wright, Susan
Howe, Julia Glass, William Finnegan, and Eileen Myles.
Graduates of Wesleyan are admitted to the nation's top
writing and journalism programs, and alumni have recently won the Whiting
Writers' award, the National Magazine Award (for fiction), the Robert F.
Kennedy Journalism Award, Edgar Allan Poe Award (mystery), and the Pulitzer
Prize (biography).
The Writing Workshop
Students who are writing course papers, honors theses, or
creative pieces consult the Writing
Workshop at all stages of their writing process—when they want help getting
started, editorial advice about drafts, or long-term tutoring.
The Freeman Writing Program provides English-as-a-second
language services through the Writing Workshop. Alice Hadler coordinates ESL
tutoring and academic services for international and bi-lingual students.Students who have learning disabilities find the
Workshop’s services and the Writing Mentor Program helpful. Please consult the
director of writing programs.
Director of Writing Programs, Anne Greene: 860-685-3604 or agreene@wesleyan.edu
ESL program coordinator, Alice Hadler: 860-685-2832 or ahadler@wesleyan.edu
The Writing Tutor
and Writing Mentor Programs
sponsored by the grants from
the Ford Foundation and the Mellon
Foundation
Wesleyan was one of the first universities to train
undergraduates as writing tutors. Each year approximately 120 students serve as writing
tutors in the Writing Workshop, in courses emphasizing writing, and in the new
Writing Mentor program, which provides personal writing tutors for freshmen. Tutors are trained in the Ford Teaching Seminar (English
491 or 492). They receive course credit and a stipend.
See www.wesleyan.edu/writing/workshop
Wesleyan Writers
Conference
This week-long program in fiction, poetry, film,
nonfiction, literary journalism, and publishing is held annually the last week
in June. Participants from the US and abroad come to campus to study with the
Conference's faculty of distinguished writers. Both experienced writers and new
writers are welcome. Wesleyan students may enroll or work on the Conference
staff. Scholarships are available. Call or write for a brochure: 860-685-3604 or
agreene@wesleyan.edu.
More information on the Wesleyan Writer's Conference: www.wesleyan.edu/writers
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