Creative Writing Program
NC State Literary Publications
2008
Prague Experience
A two-week Creative Writing Workshop emphasizing Magic
Realism
at the NC State Prague campus
[2008 dates to be announced]
Come join NCSU's MFA students in Prague for two weeks of
reading and writing (Kafka! Capek! Rilke!) along the theme
of Central Europe's contribution to
fantasy, fable, magic realism and literary experiment. This is
not for UNC credit but is for writers who want to read and write and
enrich themselves in one of the world's most beautiful cities...
Morning lectures (from faculty of Prague's Charles University)
and afternoon workshops lead by Nebula-Award winning Science Fiction
author John
Kessel and NC State's Director of the MFA in Creative
Writing, Wilton
Barnhardt. Topics discussed will include the work of
Kafka, Kundera, and Capek, the legacy of Czech and Slavic contributions
to modern and postmodern forms and magic realism.
There will be daytrip excursions into the Czech Republic,
nights at the opera and jazz clubs, mingling with Czech literati,
superb museums of classical and modern paintings and sculpture, and
free afternoons for travel, wandering, and cafes . . . This is the
original Bohemia, after all!
Applicants must submit a
story for acceptance or be
recommended by Creative Writing Faculty from their universities.
Workshops are conducted in NC State's Prague campus (in the
heart of the old city) and accommodations will be in nearby pensions.
The price will be in the
$1600-1700 range (depending on whether you
want dorm-style or hotel-style lodgings) and this does not include your
flight or your food (which is a bargain, fortunately). A
deposit to hold a space must be made by mid-April.
For more
information, contact Wilton Barnhardt (wwbarnha@unity.ncsu.edu) or
John
Kessel (tenshi@ncsu.edu).