Join me and writing instructor, Helen Free, in Italy next summer, June 13–19, 2010 for a relaxing week in the Abruzzi region of Italy.

The focus of our writing will be creative nonfiction–memoir, travel and food writing. Visit http://www.ItalyinOtherWords.com for more information. 

CREATIVE WRITING, COMPOSITION AND LITERATURE CLASSES

I teach creative writing, composition and literature at the San Ramon Campus of Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You may search the schedule and enroll at www.dvc.edu. Look under the SRVC location for my courses.

English 222 ~~ Creative Writing is offered in a once-a-week format, usually from 6–9 pm.
This course usually has twenty or fewer students and provides instruction and regular feedback from the instructor as well as a supportive writing community. You will learn useful techniques for getting started and completing creative nonfiction–memoir and travel personal essays, short stories and poetry. This is a good place to learn how to critique your own and other students’ writing. We also read and analyze professionally written creative writing and discuss techniques of the craft of writing.

English 123 ~~ Freshman English: Composition and Literature is a critical thinking class with a focus on interpreting world literature–drama, fiction, the novel, and poetry. The course includes extensive reading, personal responding, and literary analysis in formal essays. Students become comfortabe reading and discussing literature and writing analytical essays.

English 122 ~~ Freshman English: Composition and Reading includes extensive reading about current and historical thought regarding the subject of ethics. Students learn to read, write and discuss using critical thought.