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Thomas K. Dean

Memoir And Place
One-Week Workshop
July 6–11

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Memoir And Place
One-Week Workshop
July 6–11

Who are you? Where are you? Is there much difference between these two questions? We make our places what they are. But our places also make us who we are. This fascinating dynamic is the basis of exploring place in memoir writing for this workshop-oriented class.

“Place” is the interactive web of the natural, built, social, and cultural environments in which we dwell. More than just sensitivity to setting, place-based writing explores the relationships between us as individuals and as a society to the world outside ourselves. We will explore how the purple sunset sky over a pond, or an old warehouse district full of broken windows, or a community action group meeting in a church basement, or even a shadowed corner in your house with the clock ticking in the background can be the basis for engaging, revealing, and compelling memoir. In this workshop, we will critique works participants bring from home or write during the week, and we will be doing short writing exercises that will be shared throughout the week.

Biography
Thomas Dean (Ph.D., English, The University of Iowa) is Special Assistant to the President for communications and research at The University of Iowa.  He directs the Iowa Project on Place Studies and teaches with the UI Interdisciplinary Studies Division. Dean has published essays in regional and national publications. Books include The Grace of Grass and Water: Writing in Honor of Paul Gruchow (edited collection, Ice Cube Press, 2007) and Under a Midland Sky (essays, Ice Cube Press, 2008).

 

 

 

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Last updated on January 10, 2008