Department of English
Harlaxton Summer Writing Program
The Harlaxton Summer Writing Program

May 19 to June 23, 2009 in Harlaxton, England

The estimated cost of $3225 (exclusive of airfare) covers:
  • 3 hours of undergraduate or graduate credit for Writing 490/500, a mutli-genre creative writing workshop.
  • You may also choose to take an additional 3 credit hours in one of several classes, including but not limited to:
 
 
  • A variety of guest readings and discussions with other writers, poets, editors, and publishers.
 
  • 5 weeks’ room and board (all meals included).
 

2009 Visiting Writers & Faculty
  • Colette BryceColette Bryce's first book, The Heel of Bernadette (Picador 2000), received the Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection and the inaugural Strong Award in Ireland. Her new collection The Full Indian Rope Trick was recently published, and the title poem won the National Poetry Competition in 2003.
  • Christopher WaklingChristopher Wakling was born in 1970. He studied English at Oxford and has worked as a farm hand, teacher and lawyer. He has written four novels: Towards the Sun, The Undertow, Beneath the Diamond Sky and On Cape Three Points. Christopher Wakling is the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Bristol University. From time to time he teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation, and writes travel journalism for The Independent. Married with two children, he lives in Bristol.
  • Michael Carson—Dr. Carson has taught literature and writing at the University of Evansville since 1969 and has published work in numerous magazines and journals such as Westview, The Formalist, The New Virginia Review, The Spoon River Quarterly, Measure, Bitterroot International Poetry Journal, Amaryllis, and The Southern Review.

For more information, please contact us at creativewriting@evansville.edu OR
(812) 488-2962