Creative Writing
Grades: 5th - 6th
Dates: Duke TIP Academic Adventures: February 23, 2013
Creative Writing In this class you will learn effective writing strategies for your own poems and stories taught by an award-winning, published author at USC! You will develop your skills, your ideas, and your creative voice through a series of writing exercises. By sharing your work, you will learn how to write more effectively, flex your imagination muscles, tell a story, and you may just surprise yourself with your creativity!
Meet the Instructor(s)
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 was published by USC press in 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.
For Pre-University Programs at USC, Dr. Madden has taught Creative Writing for the summer youth program, Carolina Master Scholars Adventure Series and this is the third time teaching for Duke TIP Academic Adventures