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www.fulbright.ca Applications are currently being accepted for the Fulbrigtht Visiting Research Chairs in Creative Writing (fiction, non-fiction, poetry) at Arizona State University and New York University . Benefits include US$25,000, health insurance, visa services, on-campus support, assistance with housing search, and Fulbright enrichment opportunites. Applications will be accepted until November 15, 2006 for awards to be taken up September 2007 or January 2008. Eligibility requirements: established scholar, experienced professional, or junior scholar with promising research/professional record; Canadian citizenship; proficiency in English; no recent substantial experience in the United States. Fulbright Visiting Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University Resident in the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair will engage in creative activity in poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction, develop partnerships, and guest lecture at the graduate or undergraduate level. The Fulbright Visiting Research Chair will give a minimum of two public readings and/or lectures; during the Spring semester, the candidate will participate in the ASU Desert Nights, Rising Stars Creative Writing Conference. The Piper Center received a $10 million endowment to promote creative writing excellence and to enrich the 20 th ranked ASU Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. The Piper Center is the creative hub for writers and readers in the American Southwest and the artistic and intellectual heart of a newly vibrant, multinational, and culturally diverse world of writers. Vibrant and focused on interdisciplinary and academic excellence, Arizona State University is a Research One institution that is fully engaged with the metropolitan community of Phoenix. ASU is located in the Sonoran desert with access to fine museums, native American and Hispanic culture, and superb cultural facilities. For further information, please contact Dr. Jewell Rhodes, Artistic Director of the Virginia G. Piper Centre for Creative Writing, at 480-727-0818 or jewell.rhodes@asu.edu. Please also visit: www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter. Fulbright Visiting Chair in Creative Writing at New York University Resident in the Creative Writing Program at New York University, the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair will engage in creative activity in poetry and/or fiction, develop partnerships, and teach one course at the graduate or undergraduate level. In addition, the Visiting Research Chair will have opportunities to deliver public lectures, give seminar presentations, participate in conferences and related research, and otherwise contribute to the intellectual life of New York University The NYU Creative Writing Program has distinguished itself for over three decades as a leading national center for the study of writing and literature. Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, creative writing at N.Y.U. offers an immersion in events designed to cultivate and inspire. Its distinguished faculty of poets and prose writers represents a wide array of contemporary aesthetics, from the experimental to the traditional. Established in 1831, NYU is one of the largest and most prestigious private research universities in the United States. Beyond the Village, New York City becomes an extension of the University's campus. For further information, please contact Melissa Hammerle, Director of the Creative Writing Program, at 212-998-8816 or creative.writing@nyu.edu. ____________
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10th Great Year! Great Writing, the UK's international Creative Writing Conference invites papers/creative work/panel suggestions for this very special 10th Year Conference. GREAT WRITING 2007
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR The organizers will consider creative work as well as papers on creative writing teaching, creative writing theory and method, and on contemporary writers and their work. All suggestions for presentations (1 person), or panels (3 people), are very welcome. This is a very special conference year, and we invite “presenters” to join in the celebrations by showcasing the best range of creative and critical practices in Creative Writing. Ideas for critical presentations might include papers relating to: creative writing teaching methods and techniques; issues in creative writing research; contemporary writers and their work; history and context; structure, style and technique; technology; aesthetics and the writing arts, creative writing and the other arts. And more! Ideas for presentations of Creative Work are open! Critical papers or creative presentations: 20 minutes in length, plus 10 minutes introduction or questions. For proposals, send to: creative@bangor.ac.uk
For further enquiries: Dr Samantha Rayner, Research
and Development, NIECI,
**Closing Date for Submissions: 31st December 2006**
To celebrate this exciting
10th Year of Great Writing, “New Writing: the International Journal for
the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing” announces that it is moving
from 2 to 3 issues per annum! The journal is available from MLM at
support@multilingual-matters.com. "New Writing: the International Journal
for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing":
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