Adventures in Writing        
July 6–11
Dream of being published someday? Join distinguished and published faculty from the USC Poetry Initiative and the English department to refine skills in your chosen genre. Enhance your creativity, and learn to employ a variety of styles and themes to produce unique stories, poetry, and essays for a course anthology.

Meet the Instructor

Dr. Ed Madden is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches creative writing and Irish literature.  His first book of poetry, Signals, won the 2007 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and will be published by USC press April 2008.  He was also included in Best New Poets 2007, an annual collection of the best emerging writers in the nation.  Twice a recipient of the South Carolina Academy of Authors poetry fellowship, Madden is also the writer in residence at Riverbanks Botanical Gardens and has served as artist in residence for the South Carolina State Parks and for Fort Moultrie National Park.  He has taught creative writing at the Governor's School for Science and Math in Hartsville and at the Palmetto Center for the Arts at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia.  His poems and essays been published in many journals and anthologies, including most recently the 2007 Notre Dame anthology, The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, and the Southern Poetry Anthology.