PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University’s Department of English will offer a special field course in creative writing from July 15-25 in Port Townsend.
Students enrolled in English 357 will spend 10 days at the Port Townsend Writer’s Conference at Fort Worden State Park.
Students can expect to spend two and a half hours each day in a classroom learning to write fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction with WSU writing faculty. Students also will spend two to three hours each day attending craft lectures and literary readings with master artists.
This year’s luminaries include Erin Belieu, Wanda Coleman, Martin Espada, Judith Kitchen, Craig Lesley, Joana McIntyre-Varawa, Valerie Miner, Bill Ransom, Joseph Stroud and Emily Warn.
The conference is sponsored by the Centrum Center for Arts Education, home to Copper Canyon Press.
The three-credit course requires a special fee to cover food and housing at Fort Worden State Park. There is no prerequisite.
For more information, contact Paula Coomer (509) 335-6846 or e-mail at coom1286@wsu.edu.
