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Release date: 4-Apr-05 Emory Offers Short Course in Novel Writing"Novel Writing: Living through the First Draft(s)" is a week-long short course being offered by Emory University's creative writing program May 23-27. The course is open to the general public and may be taken for one undergraduate or graduate credit or on a non-credit basis. The application deadline is Friday, April 15. Taught by award-winning writers and Emory faculty members Jim Grimsley and Lynna Williams, the workshop is intended for those actively engaged in writing a novel. The workshop will focus on the art of writing a compelling opening and will offer a range of strategies for moving the work forward to a completed first draft. Issues covered will include narrative voice, point of view, pacing, characterization and plot. In addition to class meetings, students will meet with the instructors in private consultations. Workshop enrollment is limited to ensure an atmosphere conducive to frank discussion and participants' access to instructors. Grimsley is senior resident fellow and director of the creative writing program at Emory. He is an award-winning playwright and novelist. His first novel, "Winter Birds" (Algonquin 1994) won the 1995 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and received a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. His second novel, "Dream Boy" (Algonquin 1995), won the American Library Association GLBT Award for Literature and was a Lambda finalist. His third novel, "My Drowning" (Algonquin 1997), earned Grimsley Georgia Author of the Year honors. His fourth novel, "Comfort & Joy," was published by Algonguin in October 1999. A fantasy novel, "Kirith Kirin" (Meisha Merlin Books 2000), was a finalist for the Lambda in the science fiction and horror category. A sixth novel, "Boulevard," was published by Algonguin in 2002. He has published short fiction in The Ontario Review and Asimov's and his short fiction has been anthologized in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 16, Men on Men 4, Men on Men 2000, and Best Stories From the South, year 2001. Grimsley is playwright in residence at About Face Theatre in Chicago under a National Theatre Artist Residency Program grant from Theatre Communications Group/Pew Charitable Trust; he has been playwright in residence at 7Stages Theatre in Atlanta since 1986. He received the 1987 George Oppenheimer/Newsday Award for Best New American Playwright for "Mr. Universe." His collection of plays, "Mr. Universe and Other Plays" (Algonguin 1998), was a Lambda finalist for drama. Grimsley received the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writers Award in 1997. Williams is associate professor of English/creative writing at Emory. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and an MFA in fiction writing from George Mason University. A former political reporter and speechwriter in Texas and Minnesota, she has taught at Emory since 1990. Her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Lear's, The Oxford American, other literary magazines and a number of anthologies. Her short story, "Sole Custody," was nominated by The Atlantic for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, and she was one of four writers featured in an Atlantic cover story on "New American Voices" in contemporary fiction. Five of her short stories have been included in the "100 Other Distinguished Stories" list in the annual anthology, Best American Short Stories. Her collection, "Things Not Seen and Other Stories," was a New York Times' Notable Book of the Year in 1992, and she was named Georgia Author of the Year for its publication. She has won the Loft-McKnight Prize for short fiction, and a Loft Mentor Series Prize and, in 1994, was awarded the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters. Williams has also published poetry and creative non-fiction. Her essay "We Told You That, Didn't We?" won the first Lamar York Prize for Non-Fiction from the Chattahoochee Review in summer 1999; other essays appear in the books "Sleeping With One Eye Open: A Survival Guide for Creative Women" (UGA Press) and "From Daughters to Mothers: I've Always Meant to Tell You" (Simon and Schuster). She is at work on a novel, "The Faith of Gazelles," the story collection "You May Not See Me When I Fly" and a collection of essays titled "Scenes from the Lorca Lounge." Application information: Tuition and fees: For additional admission and registration information, go to the course Web site at www.creativewriting.emory.edu/resources/festival.html. Housing: ### Emory University is known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities. 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