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The Creative Writing discipline supports practice-based and critical research and PhD study focused on creative writing. This research activity is associated with the discipline's Contemporary Cultures of Writing Research Group. The core activity in this type of PhD study is the creation of a book-length work of literature (or script equivalent) and an accompanying critical reflective thesis, which elucidates the research and creative strategies involved in making the work. In this way the essence of the Creative Writing PhD is research through creative practice. The final creative work emerges from and embodies the research questions, and the decisions and discoveries made while producing the work. We welcome applications from candidates suitably qualified and with appropriate writing experience and ability.
We expect well-structured proposals which set out specific research questions and clearly outline creative and critical approaches. A substantial writing sample is also required.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) and a strong academic and creative record, usually evidenced by an MA in Creative Writing and relevant publications. If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English .
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Mourning the loss of peter saccio, celebrated shakespearean scholar, posted on august 28, 2024 by arts and sciences.
Saccio was a sought-after scholar, an actor and director, and a dedicated advocate for gay and lesbian students at Dartmouth.
Peter Saccio leads a discussion with the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Silicon Valley in February 2010. (Photo by George Hamma)
Peter Saccio, Leon Black Professor Emeritus of Shakespearean Studies and Professor of English, died on Aug. 19. He was 83 years old.
"A brilliant and beloved professor and celebrated Shakespearean scholar, Peter was a sought-after luminary for countless Dartmouth students, colleagues, and alumni, as well as friends from across the country and abroad, over the course of more than four decades on the faculty and for many years after," Dean Elizabeth F. Smith said in a message to the Arts and Sciences community. "With his remarkable erudition, spirited wit, and deep sense of humanity, Peter made a lasting impact on our campus, the Upper Valley performing arts community, and far beyond."
Saccio was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Bethlehem, Connecticut. He discovered his love of Shakespeare as a child and chose to attend Yale University to pursue a career in drama. Although he persuaded Yale's drama department to produce Henry VI , the king role went instead to his classmate, Sam Waterston—an experience that prompted Saccio to recognize his relative strengths and set his sights on scholarship. He earned a BA in philosophy at Yale, followed by a PhD in English from Princeton University, where he held Woodrow Wilson and Jacobus fellowships.
Saccio joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 1966, teaching primarily Shakespeare and modern British drama. He served as vice chair and chair of the Department of English, and was successively given two endowed chairs at Dartmouth, the Willard Professorship in Oratory and Drama and the Leon D. Black Professorship in Shakespearean Studies. He retired in 2007.
In addition to many scholarly articles on Shakespeare and reviews of professional productions, Saccio authored two books, The Court Comedies of John Lyly: A Study in Allegorical Dramaturgy (1969) and Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama (1977). The latter became a classic in the field, and to Saccio's delight, a popular resource for actors and directors seeking to understand their characters. He also edited Thomas Middleton's comedy A Mad World, My Masters , for the Oxford Complete Works of Thomas Middleton.
In 1990, the Teaching Company (now Great Courses) began recording and marketing scholarly lectures, and Saccio's lectures on Shakespeare were among the original eight that were offered and distributed on CDs and DVDs. The lectures brought Saccio to audiences around the world, who sang his praises. "Professor Saccio's love affair with Shakespeare resounds clearly through all his talks," one student wrote. "His enthusiasm is infectious; it is serious but relieved with humor and asides where appropriate."
Saccio was also regularly invited to deliver lectures at major theatrical venues, including Shakespeare's Globe in London, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, and the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Minnesota. He gave lectures to Dartmouth Alumni Clubs across the country, often collaborating with the late Charles Wood, Daniel Webster Professor of History, and on alumni cruises in Europe. He also lectured extensively in public libraries for the Vermont Humanities Council.
At Dartmouth, Saccio's classes were often oversubscribed and he was cited as a favorite professor by many alumni, including the Class of 1971 . The recipient of the John M. Manley Huntington Award for Outstanding Teaching, he was especially admired for combining his vast knowledge of Shakespeare with practical insights about theater production.
"He had a real sense of how performances are created," recalls Professor of Theater Peter Hackett '75. "My friends and I who were leaning towards acting, directing, and design had great affection for Saccio because he was able to open up the world of Shakespeare as well as our understanding of how these plays were brought to life."
Among Saccio's most active commitments at Dartmouth was the welfare of gay and lesbian students. He was faculty advisor to the gay student organization (which had several different names during the 1980s and 1990s) and chair of the Board of Trustees of the Edward Carpenter Foundation, a private foundation established with alumni gifts at a time when Dartmouth did not choose to accept donations for gay and lesbian causes. In 1992, he taught the English department's first course in gay literature.
"He was a tremendous pioneer for gay and lesbian students at Dartmouth at a time when it was not typical," says Colin Partridge '72, a former student who became Saccio's lifelong friend.
Associate Professor of English Melissa Zeiger recalls Saccio's kindness as a colleague, and how he championed gay authors with sensitivity and care. "In the midst of sad times, including the AIDS epidemic, he was able to celebrate the joyousness of gay literary production," she says.
"The way our culture has been run for 1,000 years, if you're gay you're alone," Saccio said in an interview with Dartmouth Alumni Magazine . "Some people start out thinking they're the only people in the world like this."
"Literature does illuminate life," he continued. "It can extend our experience beyond the range of one person."
Saccio's late partner, James Steffensen, was a professor of drama at Dartmouth beginning in 1980. The pair often collaborated professionally, including in the leading of students and alumni to London for theater-focused study and tours, often in association with the Hopkins Center for the Arts. With Steffensen and after his death, Saccio regularly kept in touch with many former Dartmouth students, often serving as a patient listener and trusted advisor both professionally and personally.
When Vermont's Northern Stage was founded in 1997, Saccio quickly befriended its founding director and became an ardent supporter. When Peter Hackett and his wife, Carol Dunne , joined Dartmouth's theater faculty, Saccio introduced them to the company—ultimately leading to Dunne taking its helm as artistic director in 2013. In addition to serving as an artistic advisor and acting in several productions, Saccio was on Northern Stage's Board of Directors for several years and remained connected long after he stepped down.
Saccio's own acting credits include the Shakespearean roles of Casca, Angelo, and Bassanio, as well as various parts in ancient and modern plays. And it was at Dartmouth, finally, when he played the role of the king in a production of Henry IV in the Moore Theater.
Saccio is survived by his sister, Mary Anne Gateley of Searcy, Ark.; his brother and sister-in-law Edward and Joyce Saccio of Havana, Florida; four nieces and nephews, four great-nieces, and a great-nephew.
A memorial service will take place on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 11 a.m. at St. Thomas Church in Hanover.
Donations in Saccio's memory may be made to St. Thomas' Church, Northern Stage, a gay/AIDS charity or support group of the donor's choice, or to the Professor James L. Steffensen Memorial Fund at Dartmouth, which Saccio established to further Steffensen's work in the education of theater students.
In Saccio's honor, the Dartmouth flag will be lowered on Wednesday, Sept. 11, and Thursday, Sept. 12.
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The MSt in Creative Writing is a two-year, part-time master's degree course offering a unique combination of high contact hours, genre specialisation, and critical and creative breadth.
The emphasis of the course is cross-cultural and cross-genre, pointing up the needs and challenges of the contemporary writer who produces their creative work in the context of a global writerly and critical community.
The MSt offers a clustered learning format of five residences, two guided retreats and one research placement over two years. The research placement, a distinguishing feature of the course, provides between one and two weeks' in-house experience of writing in the real world.
The first year concentrates equally on prose fiction, poetry, dramatic writing and narrative non-fiction. There is a significant critical reading and analysis component, which is linked to the writerly considerations explored in each of the genres. In your second year you will specialise in one of the following:
- the novel
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The residences in particular offer an intensive workshop- and seminar-based forum for ideas exchange and for the opening up of creative and critical frameworks within which to develop writerly and analytical skills. There is a strong element of one-to-one tutorial teaching. Tutorials take place within residences and retreats, and relate to the on-going work produced for the course.
You will be assigned a supervisor who will work closely with you throughout the development of the year two final project and extended essay. All assessed work throughout the two years of the course is subject to one-to-one feedback and discussion with a tutor. This intensive, one-to-one input, combined with the highly interactive workshop and seminar sessions, is a distinguishing feature of the course.
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The SMSU Creative Writing Program will host Kevin Brockmeier on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. He will be on campus visiting classes during the day and giving a public reading in the evening in Charter Hall 201 at 7:00 p.m. Brockmeier is the first guest of the visiting writer series for the 2024-25 academic year.
KEVIN BROCKMEIER is the author of the memoir A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip; the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the story collections The Ghost Variations, Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer; and the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery . His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He teaches frequently at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.
Brockmeier has published his stories in such venues as The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope, Tin House, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror , and New Stories from the South . He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. In 2007, he was named one of Granta 's Best Young American Novelists.
The reading will feature stories from Brockmeier’s latest book The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories published in 2021 by Pantheon. The reading is free and open to the public.
For comment on the visiting writer, contact: Dr. Jessica Hennen, [email protected] , Assistant Professor of English at SMSU.
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There are no time-tabled sessions on this course. Using a specially designed virtual learning environment this online course guides students through weekly pathways of directed readings and learning activities. Students interact with their tutor and the other course participants through tutor-guided, text-based forum discussions. There are no ‘live-time’ video meetings meaning you can study flexibly in your own time under the direct tuition of an expert. For further information please click here
This is an advanced course designed for students who have completed one of the introductory courses such as Getting Started in Creative Writing, or one or more of the specialist courses such as Writing Fiction, Writing Poetry, Writing Drama, or Writing Young Adult Fiction, or a similar course.
How do authors develop an initial idea into a completed work of fiction? A practical course covering all aspects of novel writing from character creation, story development to final edit. Designed to engender confidence and good writing practice for aspiring novelists.
The development of online publishing opportunities has given rise to an increased commercial success of the self-published author. Beginning with an investigation of how fiction can be created from the writer''s own experience, this course will explore the techniques used to develop and structure a sustained piece of original prose to a commercially viable standard. We will look at character creation and development across a variety of genres. We will learn how to assess the thematic content of contemporary fiction and how this is expressed in the progression of plot. We will examine how description and metaphor are used to support narrative purpose. At the same time, we will explore the role of the writer as self-editor and how close-reading and critical thinking can enable improved confidence in the development of a unique, individual voice which will appeal to a broad readership.
This course emphasises weekly reading and writing exercises, peer feedback, and tutor guidance. Tutors prompt and moderate discussions that centre on group learning rather than workshopping personal pieces of writing. Both assessed assignments receive detailed feedback from the tutor.
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We strongly recommend that you try to find a little time each week to engage in the online conversations (at times that are convenient to you) as the forums are an integral, and very rewarding, part of the course and the online learning experience.
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Elizabeth Garner is a novelist and editor with 25 years of experience of story-development in both film and publishing. She was written two novels: Nightdancing , which received the Betty Trask Award; and The Ingenious Edgar Jones , which was published to critical acclaim in the UK and USA. She has also published a collection of illustrated folk tales: Lost & Found . She is a freelance fiction editor and also teaches creative writing for OUDCE.
Sara Taylor is a product of Virginia and the homeschooling movement. She received her Masters in Prose Fiction and Ph.D. in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her novels, published by Random House, explore the social construction of identity, sexuality, and family. She acts as co-director and editor of creative-critical publisher Seam Editions, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
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A personal statement is a narrative essay that connects your background, experiences, and goals to the mission, requirements, and desired outcomes of the specific opportunity you are seeking. It is a critical component in the selection process, whether the essay is for a competitive internship, a graduate fellowship, or admittance to a graduate school program. It gives the selection committee the best opportunity to get to know you, how you think and make decisions, ways in which past experiences have been significant or formative, and how you envision your future. Personal statements can be varied in form; some are given a specific prompt, while others are less structured. However, in general a personal statement should answer the following questions:
A personal statement is not:
Keep in mind that your statement is only a portion of the application and should be written with this in mind. Your entire application package will include some, possibly all, of the materials listed below. You will want to consider what these pieces of the application communicate about you. Your personal statement should aim to tie everything together and fill in or address any gaps. There will likely be some overlap but be sure not to be too repetitive.
For a quick overview of personal statements, you might begin by watching this "5 Minute Fellowships" video!
If you are writing your first personal statement or working to improve upon an existing personal statement, the video below is a helpful, in-depth resource.
A large portion of your work towards completing a personal statement begins well before your first draft or even an outline. It is incredibly important to be sure you understand all of the rules and regulations around the statement. Things to consider before you begin writing:
Below is a second 5 Minute Fellowships video that can help you get started!
Before you start writing, take some time to reflect on your experiences and motivations as they relate to the programs to which you are applying. This will offer you a chance to organize your thoughts which will make the writing process much easier. Below are a list of questions to help you get started:
For those applying to Medical School, if you need a committee letter for your application and are using the Medical Professions Advisory Committee you have already done a lot of heavy lifting through the 2017-2018 Applicant Information Form . Even if you aren't using MPAC the applicant information form is a great place to start.
Another great place to start is through talking out your ideas. You have a number of options both on and off campus, such as: Career Education advisors and mentors ( you can set up an appointment here ), major advisor, family, friends. If you are applying to a graduate program it is especially important to talk with a faculty member in the field. Remember to take good notes so you can refer to them later.
When you begin writing keep in mind that your essay is one of many in the application pool. This is not to say you should exaggerate your experiences to “stand out” but that you should focus on clear, concise writing. Also keep in mind that the readers are considering you not just as a potential student but a future colleague. Be sure to show them examples and experiences which demonstrate you are ready to begin their program.
It is important to remember that your personal statement will take time and energy to complete, so plan accordingly. Every application and statement should be seen as different from one another, even if they are all the same type of program. Each institution may teach you the same material but their delivery or focus will be slightly different.
In addition, remember:
The prompts below are from actual applications to a several types of programs. As you will notice many of them are VERY general in nature. This is why it is so important to do your research and reflect on your motivations. Although the prompts are similar in nature the resulting statements would be very different depending on the discipline and type of program, as well as your particular background and reasons for wanting to pursue this graduate degree.
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