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From: Bar-Ilan Creative Writing Program Coordinator <barilanwriting@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Monday, May 11, 2015 - Bar-Ilan Creative Writing Seminar with
Robin Hemley
The Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing invites you to
participate in a one-day seminar at Bar-Ilan University with acclaimed
writer Robin Hemley.
Ekphrasis
In this seminar, Robin Hemley will discuss the various ways in which
writers engage with visual art, in particular, photography. The
workshop will focus on ekphrasis: verbal representations of visual
representations. From notional ekphrasis (writing about imaginary
works of art, such as Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” or Keats’
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”) to documentary and lyric ekphrasis, Hemley
will discuss the various ways in which authors have engaged with
visual representation.
During the seminar, you’ll try your hand at notional ekphrasis as well
as other forms. Participants will be asked to bring to the workshop
three postcards and two family photographs (not to be shared with any
other participants beforehand). In addition, participants should also
write a brief (up to 250 words) description of a piece of visual art
that exists to date only in their imagination.
Bio:
Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and many other
awards, including the Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from The Chicago
Tribune, and three Pushcart Prizes in both fiction and nonfiction. He
has published 11 books, and his stories and essays have appeared in
the New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many
literary magazines and anthologies. Robin received his MFA from the
Iowa Writers Workshop and directed the Nonfiction Writing Program at
The University of Iowa for nine years. He is currently
Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Writing Program at Yale-NUS in
Singapore.
WHERE: Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan (more details upon registration)
DATE: Monday, May 11, 2015.
TIME: 10.00 AM prompt (doors open at 9.30 AM) – 3.30 PM (with a
45-minute break for lunch)
COST: 475 NIS per seminar (10% discount for students and alumni of the
Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing). Proceeds of the
seminar go to our student scholarship fund.
PARTICIPANTS: 14 maximum.
***Special Offer! 5% discount for those who register by Friday, April
24, 12:00 noon Israel time***
Please email Nadia Jacobson, at barilanwriting@xxxxxxxxx as soon as
possible to reserve your place.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes,
Nadia Jacobson
Coordinator
Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing
Bar-Ilan University
barilanwriting@xxxxxxxxx
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