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The pooch crew has been hard at work on an update of the Crash Course that started it all! Strap on your helmet. Buckle up! Writing for Children and Teens: A Crash Course has been updated in 2022. Please note: this link is an Amazon affiliate link and all proceeds go toward the crew’s kibble.

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UPDATE 3/21/20: The event videos are now posted! If we missed your question or ms, please email cynthealiu AT gmail DOT com and let Cynthea know! Here are the links (2 videos), enjoy!

Part 1: #1 – 28 (PB, CB, MG and YA) https://www.facebook.com/cliubooks/videos/499764837380803/

Part 2: #29 – 41 (PB) https://www.facebook.com/cliubooks/videos/149848876277801/

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2017 Winter

Approaches to Literature
Term 1
T 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Discussion); Th, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Lecture )

"That's when the hornet stung me" -- Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip, "Ahead by A Century."

Narrative, or the act of storytelling, is one of our most basic daily activities, as H. Porter Abbott, a narrative expert, reminds us. We encounter narratives in newspapers, advertisements, text messages, letters, novels, plays, poems, paintings, rock songs, films, political speeches, health reports, and academic textbooks. Narrative is everywhere because it is a foundational dimension of language and human thought.

This course is an introduction to the study of narrative elements, especially as found in examples of Canadian fiction, drama, poetry, and film. Some of the fundamental questions that we will take up include the following: What exactly is narrative? Why are narratives important for organizing human experience? How and why do writers manipulate narrative time?

These questions and others will be explored in lectures, group activities, discussion groups, and weekly readings in H. Porter Abbott's core textbook on narrative. The course requirements include one in-class essay, one home essay, one short answer test, pop quizzes, active participation, and a final examination.

Required texts:

CORE TEXTBOOK: H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, 2nd Ed.
SHORT STORIES: Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes (M &S)
NOVEL: Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion (Vintage)
DRAMA: John Gray and Eric Peterson, Billy Bishop Goes to War (Talon)
POETRY/SONGS: Selected poems -- and songs by the Tragically Hip, and others
FILM: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Isuma/NFB 2001), directed by Zacharias Kunuk and screenplay by Paul Apak Angilirk: http://www.isuma.tv/hi/en/fastrunnertrilogy

Online MFA Faculty

Our online MFA program is taught by a diverse and accomplished faculty of professional writers, who exemplify our program's commitment to welcoming a wide range of fiction genres. From nationally published authors and award winners to multiple degree holders, you’ll find their work in publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, Bustle, The Writer, and more. They share this rich array of experiences with our online MFA students, providing guidance in both the craft and profession of creative writing.

Paul Witcover

Associate Dean, Online MFA

Paul Witcover is the author of the novels “Waking Beauty,” “Tumbling After,” “Dracula: Asylum,” “The Emperor of All Things,” “The Watchman of Eternity” and “Lincolnstein.” His short fiction is collected in “Everland and Other Stories.” He has been a finalist for the Nebula, World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards, and he has served on the jury for the Jackson and Philip K. Dick awards. His book reviews and critical essays have appeared in Realms of Fantasy and Locus magazines, among other publications. He co-created and co-wrote the DC Comic Anima.

Witcover has an MA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York and is a graduate of the Clarion Writing Workshop. He is a recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship.

Witcover was deeply involved in the program development for SNHU’s online MFA in Creative Writing. He has taught as an adjunct in SNHU’s MA and MFA in Creative Writing programs since 2013 and is committed to providing guidance, knowledge and opportunity to all online MFA students. Witcover lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He can be found online at paulwitcover.com and on Bluesky @paulwitcover.bsky.social

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Lindsey Averill is many things - a mom, a filmmaker, an academic, a writer, an activist, a USA Today bestselling novelist, a sake and sushi lover

2025

Conference TBA

2024

“Janus: Language and text between East Asian and Greco-Roman Classics”

15-16 June 2024, Ioannou Centre University of Oxford

Over the past decade, a surge of interest in the global reception of Classics has generated a growing body of scholarship that engages with texts and cultures beyond Greece and Rome, especially in Mexico and South America, India, and Eastern Europe. The Janus Project was launched in January 2024 to direct this energy still further east towards another body of texts also known as Classics: the ancient East Asian philosophical and literary canon, and the commentary and pedagogical traditions that grew up around it. The inaugural Janus conference will bring together scholars working on any point of confluence between Greco-Roman and East Asian ‘Classics’. The conference will showcase the breadth and depth of the field, explore the potential for cross-disciplinary collaboration, and build connections within and between specialties.

The conference, sponsored by the University of Oxford Faculty of Classics and Oxford University Press John Fell Fund, will be held 15-16 June 2024 at the Ioannou Centre.

Please direct any questions you may have to the conference organizers, Cynthia Liu and Charis Jo (admin@janus-project.org).

To register to attend in person, please email cynthia.liu@classics.ox.ac.uk by June 7th. The registration fee for in-person attendance, to include coffee/tea and lunch, is £10. If you have dietary requirements, please do let us know by June 3rd.

To attend online, please email cynthia.liu@classics.ox.ac.uk by 14 June.

The Programme is as follows:

Saturday, 15 June

Registration and Welcome 12:30

Session 1 Poetry (1:00-2:30)

“Honey and Robots: Reinventing Greco-Roman and Chinese Antiquity in the Poetry of Sally Wen Mao.” Christopher Waldo (University of Washington, Seattle)

“Two Ghosts: Ambivalence and Moderation in Zhou Zuoren’s Reception of Sappho.” Kai Che

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