The Summer Creative Writing Institute and the Creative Writing Program are delighted to announce the July Wednesday evening reading series featuring Catherine Barnett, Jake Lamar, Darcey Steinke, and Siân Melangell Dafydd.
The Summer Creative Writing Institute offers students the opportunity to practice writing well-crafted fiction, literary nonfiction and cross-genre writing under the guidance of highly accomplished writers. At the same time, students are able to enjoy Paris life and culture while becoming steeped in some of its great literary legacy.
If you have any questions please contact Professor Jeffrey Greene at jgreene
aup.edu.
There will be refreshments at all events.
Darcey Steinke and Siân Melangell Dafydd
Darcey Steinke
Darcey Steinke's most recent higly acclaimed novel, Sister Golden Hair, was published in 2014 by Tin House press. Steinke is the author of the memoir Easter Everywhere (Bloomsbury 2007, a New York Times Notable book), and the novels Milk (Bloomsbury 2005), Jesus Saves (Grove/Atlantic, 1997), Suicide Blonde (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992), and Up Through the Water (Doubleday, 1989, A New York Times Notable book). With Rick Moody, she edited Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited (Little, Brown 1997).
Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian. Her web-story "Blindspot" was a part of the 2000 Whitney Biennial. She has been both a Henry Hoyns and a Stegner Fellow and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, and has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts, Barnard, AUP, and Princeton.
Siân Melangell Dafydd
AUP professor, fiction writing, poet, editor, and translator Siân Melangell Dafydd is teaching Creative Writing at AUP this semester. Her first published novel, Y Trydydd Peth (The Third Thing; Gomer, 2009) won her the coveted 2009 National Eisteddfod Literature Medal. She writes in both Welsh and English and often collaborates with artists of other disciplines (dancer Sioned Huws’ Aomori Project; the book Ancestral Houses: the Lost Mansions of Wales/Tai Mawr a Mieri: Plastai Coll Cymru with poet Damian Walford Davies and artist Paul White [Gomer 2012]).
She is the co-editor of the literary review Taliesin and Y Neuadd online literary magazine which nurtures new voices. Her writing has been selected for Best British Short Stories and Best British Poetry Anthologies. Her second Welsh language novel is forthcoming from Gomer.